MC Hoang Phi

Events in 1989 and 7-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Hoang Phi

• 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 Hoang Phi (7-12) in history

• Day 7-12 year 1787: Delaware became the first state to ratify the US Constitution.
• Day 7-12 year 1917: The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
• Day 7-12 year 1941: The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
• Day 7-12 year 1972: America's final moon mission, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
• Day 7-12 year 1975: Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation.
• Day 7-12 year 1988: A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing 25,000.
• Day 7-12 year 2001: Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold in Afghanistan.
• Day 7-12 year 2002: Iraq formally declared to the UN that it had no weapons of mass destruction.
• Day 7-12 year 2004: Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.