Football player Tom Denton

Events in 1989 and 24-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Tom Denton

• US planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean (Jan. 4).
• Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares author Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death (Feb. 14).
• Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square in rally for democracy (April 19 et seq.). More than one million in Beijing demonstrate for democracy; chaos spreads across nation (mid-May et seq.). Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward demonstrators (June 4 et seq.).
• Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President (May 25).
• P. W. Botha quits as South Africa's President (Aug. 14).
• Deng Xiaoping resigns from China's leadership (Nov. 9).
• After 28 years, Berlin Wall is open to West (Nov. 11).
• Czech Parliament ends Communists' dominant role (Nov. 30).
• Romanian uprising overthrows Communist government (Dec. 15 et seq.); President Ceausescu and wife executed (Dec. 25).
• US troops invade Panama, seeking capture of General Manuel Noriega (Dec. 20).

Birthday Tom Denton (24-7) in history

• Day 24-7 year 1847: Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake.
• Day 24-7 year 1862: Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.
• Day 24-7 year 1866: Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
• Day 24-7 year 1937: Charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.
• Day 24-7 year 1974: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
• Day 24-7 year 2002: Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania. All were rescued three days later.