Youtube star Melanie Murphy

Events in 1989 and 14-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Melanie Murphy

• 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 Melanie Murphy (14-8) in history

• Day 14-8 year 1900: International forces entered Beijing, China, in an effort to suppress the antiforeign uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion.
• Day 14-8 year 1935: The Social Security Act became law.
• Day 14-8 year 1945: Japan surrendered to the United States, ending World War II.
• Day 14-8 year 1947: Pakistan became independent of British rule.
• Day 14-8 year 1951: Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, California.
• Day 14-8 year 1995: Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at the Citadel, the state military college of South Carolina.
• Day 14-8 year 1997: Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
• Day 14-8 year 2003: The largest blackout in North American history hit the northeast.