TV actor Luke Tittensor

Events in 1989 and 3-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Luke Tittensor

• 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 Tittensor (3-11) in history

• Day 3-11 year 1839: The first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.
• Day 3-11 year 1903: Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.
• Day 3-11 year 1952: Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas.
• Day 3-11 year 1957: The Soviet Union sent the first animal, a dog named Laika, into space aboard the Sputnik II . Laika died in orbit.
• Day 3-11 year 1986: A Lebanese magazine broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran, leading to the Iran-Contra affair.
• Day 3-11 year 1992: Carol Moseley-Braun became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
• Day 3-11 year 2004: Hamid Karzai was declared the winner in Afghanistan's first presidential election.