TV actress Leena Jumani

Events in 1989 and 16-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Leena Jumani

• 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 Leena Jumani (16-7) in history

• Day 16-7 year 1790: The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government.
• Day 16-7 year 1918: Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
• Day 16-7 year 1935: The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.
• Day 16-7 year 1945: The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, N.M.
• Day 16-7 year 1951: J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published.
• Day 16-7 year 1969: Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.
• Day 16-7 year 1979: Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
• Day 16-7 year 1999: John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.