Youtube star Josiah Brooks

Events in 1989 and 20-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Josiah Brooks

• 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 Josiah Brooks (20-4) in history

• Day 20-4 year 1769: Chief Pontiac is murdered.
• Day 20-4 year 1841: The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published.
• Day 20-4 year 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium.
• Day 20-4 year 1912: The Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park. They beat the N.Y. Highlanders (who in 1913 would become known as the Yankees) 7-6.
• Day 20-4 year 1971: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation.
• Day 20-4 year 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including the shooters) and 1 teacher were killed; 23 others were wounded.
• Day 20-4 year 2008: Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar race.
• Day 20-4 year 2010: An explosion on a BP oil drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana kills 11 people and injures 17. Experts estimate that 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.