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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
– Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
– People’s Daily publishes the People’s Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
– Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
– Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, is awarded £600,000 in damages (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal) after winning a libel action against Private Eye.
– The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
– The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted.
– Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
– 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
– After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Communist authoritarian regime.
Who Were Born On ?
– Nick Calathes, Greek basketball player
– Néstor Calderón, Mexican footballer
– Shota Shimizu, Japanese musician
– Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
– David N'Gog, French footballer
– Israel Folau, Australian rules footballer
– Emily Rios, American actress
– Mustapha Carayol, Gambian/English footballer
– Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer
– Tyreke Evans, Basketball player