Radio program host Joe Kay

Events in 1989 and 12-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Joe Kay

• 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 Joe Kay (12-10) in history

• Day 12-10 year 1492: The explorer Columbus first set foot in what is now known as the Bahamas.
• Day 12-10 year 1870: Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Va., at age 63.
• Day 12-10 year 1960: Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev created a disturbance at the U.N. General Assembly by pounding his desk with his shoe.
• Day 12-10 year 1964: The Soviets launched Voskhod I, the first space capsule to carry three people into orbit.
• Day 12-10 year 1999: NBA Hall-of-Famer Wilt Chamberlain died at his Bel Air home at age 63.
• Day 12-10 year 2000: 17 U.S. sailors killed with the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.
• Day 12-10 year 2002: A bomb destroyed a nightclub in Bali, killing 202, mostly tourists.