Football player Vladimir Weiss

Events in 1989 and 30-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Vladimir Weiss

• 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 Vladimir Weiss (30-11) in history

• Day 30-11 year 1804: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was tried for political bias.
• Day 30-11 year 1900: Irish author Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46.
• Day 30-11 year 1940: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married.
• Day 30-11 year 1966: Barbados became independent of Great Britain.
• Day 30-11 year 1974: The fossilized remains of a female human ancestor named Lucy (after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) were found in Ethiopia.
• Day 30-11 year 1993: The Brady Bill, requiring a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases, is signed.
• Day 30-11 year 1995: President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland.
• Day 30-11 year 2004: Ken Jennings ended his 74-game winning spree on the game show, Jeopardy!