Youtube star Denis Hartwig

Events in 1989 and 8-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Denis Hartwig

• 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 Denis Hartwig (8-3) in history

• Day 8-3 year 1782: A peaceful settlement of Delaware Indians were massacred by militia at Gnadenhutten in Ohio.
• Day 8-3 year 1917: Russia's February Revolution, which eventually led to the overthrow the csarist government, began.
• Day 8-3 year 1945: Phyllis Mae Daley, the first African-American nurse to serve in World War II, received her U.S. Navy commission.
• Day 8-3 year 1948: The Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
• Day 8-3 year 1950: The Soviet Union claimed to be in possession of the atomic bomb.
• Day 8-3 year 1965: First U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam.
• Day 8-3 year 1983: President Reagan called the USSR an "Evil Empire."
• Day 8-3 year 1999: Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio died.