Youtube star Reversal

Events in 1989 and 17-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Reversal

• 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 Reversal (17-7) in history

• Day 17-7 year 1821: Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
• Day 17-7 year 1898: Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.
• Day 17-7 year 1917: The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German senitment during World War I.
• Day 17-7 year 1938: "Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.
• Day 17-7 year 1945: President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.
• Day 17-7 year 1955: Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
• Day 17-7 year 1975: The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.
• Day 17-7 year 1998: The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.