Hockey player Luke Gazdic

Events in 1989 and 25-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Luke Gazdic

• 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 Luke Gazdic (25-7) in history

• Day 25-7 year 1946: The United States tested the first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.
• Day 25-7 year 1952: Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States.
• Day 25-7 year 1956: The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, killing 51 people.
• Day 25-7 year 1978: The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in Lancashire, England.
• Day 25-7 year 1984: Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
• Day 25-7 year 2000: The supersonic airliner Concorde crashed after takeoff outside Paris.