Youtube star Alex Osipczak

Events in 1989 and 3-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Alex Osipczak

• 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 Alex Osipczak (3-2) in history

• Day 3-2 year 1468: The great German inventor Johannes Gutenberg who created the first printing machine, passed away in Mainz, Germany.
• Day 3-2 year 1870: The 15th Amendment (black suffrage) passed.
• Day 3-2 year 1913: The 16th Amendment, establishing federal income tax, was ratified.
• Day 3-2 year 1917: The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.
• Day 3-2 year 1959: Rock singers, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and Big Bopper died in a plane crash.
• Day 3-2 year 1995: Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the space shuttle when the Discovery blasted off.
• Day 3-2 year 1998: Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984.