Youtube star Liam Dryden

Events in 1989 and 28-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Liam Dryden

• 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 Liam Dryden (28-12) in history

• Day 28-12 year 1065: The famous British monastery of Westminster was consecrated.
• Day 28-12 year 1832: John C. Calhoun became the first vice president in U.S. history to resign from office.
• Day 28-12 year 1846: Iowa became the 29th state in the United States.
• Day 28-12 year 1869: William F. Semple patented chewing gum.
• Day 28-12 year 1895: The Lumiere Brothers gave the first commercial movie show at the Grand Cafe in Paris.
• Day 28-12 year 1937: Composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris at age 62.
• Day 28-12 year 1945: Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Day 28-12 year 1981: Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, was born in Norfolk, Va.