Youtube star Michelle Fishman

Events in 1989 and 7-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Michelle Fishman

• 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 Michelle Fishman (7-7) in history

• Day 7-7 year 1456: Twenty-five years after the execution of the French heroine "Joan of Arc", Pope Calixtus III announced the drop of the charges of heresy against her.
• Day 7-7 year 1797: William Blount of Tennessee became the first U.S. senator to be impeached.
• Day 7-7 year 1846: Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey and declared California annexed to the United States.
• Day 7-7 year 1898: The United States annexed Hawaii.
• Day 7-7 year 1946: Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized, becoming the first American saint.
• Day 7-7 year 1981: President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor for the Supreme Court.
• Day 7-7 year 2005: 52 people were killed and hundreds injured in London when terrorists bombed subways and a bus.