Voice actor Barbara Dunkelman

Events in 1989 and 2-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Barbara Dunkelman

• 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 Barbara Dunkelman (2-7) in history

• Day 2-7 year 1566: French astrologer, physician and author of the book "Prophecies" Nostradamus passed away in Salon-de-Provence.
• Day 2-7 year 1881: President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau; he died on Sept. 19.
• Day 2-7 year 1890: Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• Day 2-7 year 1937: Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world.
• Day 2-7 year 1964: President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
• Day 2-7 year 1976: In Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
• Day 2-7 year 1997: Actor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
• Day 2-7 year 2002: Steve Fossett became the first to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon.