nolanbuc
2-14-02, 07:05 AM
Today in...
1988 - Hours after learning that his sister had died of leukemia, American Dan Jansen lost his bid for a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, when he fell during the 500-meter speed-skating event.
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1984 - Six-year-old Stormie Jones became the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She lived until November 1990.
1989 - Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeni called on Muslims to kill aouther Salman Rushdie for writing "The Satanic Verses". Many Muslims considered passages of the novel to be blasphemous. The British-born author went into hiding for 10 years.
1988 - Hours after learning that his sister had died of leukemia, American Dan Jansen lost his bid for a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, when he fell during the 500-meter speed-skating event.
More 80's history for today in...
1984 - Six-year-old Stormie Jones became the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She lived until November 1990.
1989 - Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeni called on Muslims to kill aouther Salman Rushdie for writing "The Satanic Verses". Many Muslims considered passages of the novel to be blasphemous. The British-born author went into hiding for 10 years.