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16 Aug, 1989

Freddie Gray born

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Freddie Gray childhood photoFreddie Carlos Gray, Jr. is born to Gloria Darden, a disabled heroin addict, who cannot read. He has a twin sister Fredericka, as well as another sister, Carolina. Darden on the twins:

They were real small and they had to keep them inside the hospital for a couple months, like until they gained five pounds. I had them too early, had to have them like when I was seven months pregnant.

31 Jul, 1989

Zelda Rae Williams born

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Williams’s daughter Zelda Rae Williams is born in New York. She is William’s first daughter and first child with his second wife, Marsha Garces. She is named after the title character of the Nintendo game series Legend of ZeldaHer half-brother, Zachary Pym, is six years older than her. At a rented home in San Francisco, one of several residences where they live during her childhood, the family keeps rabbits and iguanas and Zelda has a personal miniature couch. On deciding to name his daughter Zelda:

It seemed only natural. When my wife was pregnant, my son Zachary mentioned that Zelda would be the perfect name for his new little sister … Zelda … What a great name … it’s magical, like she is!

30 Jun, 1989

Stages coup

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Bashir leads fellow officers in a mutiny against Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi. The coup is also aimed at preventing the signing of a peace treaty with John Garang’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). Bashir opposed the plan, which would have allowed secular law, instead of Sharia, in the south. He says in a televised communique that the coup is:

to save the country from rotten political parties.

He claims himself chairman of Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) and signs a constitutional decree dismissing the government and other state bodies. Further decrees dissolve political parties and trade unions, and impose a state of emergency and a ban on demonstrations against the “revolution of national salvation”

24 May, 1989

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Spielberg directs the third adventure film in the Indiana Jones series. This time Jones is accompanied by his father—also an accomplished adventurer—as he searches for the fabled holy grail, which supposedly has the power to make people immortal. Harrison Ford and Sean Connery star.

The dad thing was my idea. The Grail doesn’t offer a lot of special effects and doesn’t promise a huge physical climax. I just thought that the Grail that everybody seeks could be a metaphor for a son seeking reconciliation with a father and a father seeking reconciliation with a son. It also gave me a chance to suggest Sean Connery. Who else but Bond could have been worthy enough to play Indiana Jones’ dad?

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Trailer

23 Jan, 1989

Salvador Dali dies age 84

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Dalí dies of heart failure in Figueres, Spain, after he is moved back there by his friends, family and supporters. He grows more and more obsessed with time and immortality as he dies.

Where is my clock?

1989

Forms 2 Too Many

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In his senior year, Carter stops going to school. He spends his time on his rap group, 2 Too Many — a name they choose because there were three of them, but always only enough bus fare for one, or food money for one, or whatever they needed or wanted, only enough for one. He also promotes house parties all over Philadelphia, hiring a DJ and charging $1 to $5 a head. His mother, however, insists that he get a diploma or the equivalent, and enrolls him in Job Corps, a federal education and training program, at a rural Maryland high school, where he earns his GED and returns home.

You got a couple of choices: drug dealers were the role models – you didn’t have doctors and hedge fund managers that looked like you. At that time, hip hop culture was exploding . . .  and coming from the family I came from, drugs was not an option

Kiki’s Delivery Service

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Miyazaki’s first true literary adaptation, Kiki’s Delivery Service, is released. The story follows Kiki, a young witch, as she sets out to build her self-confidence in a modern world.

I was inspired by the struggle of young cartoonists to find work. It’s not simply about making money and earning a living — everybody does that. It’s about living your own life: how do you assert your individuality in this world? I think that’s what everybody was concerned about when we made that film. I think if we made the film now it would turn out different.

First serious boyfriend

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Jolie temporarily abandons acting, and embarks on her first long-term relationship.

One of my boyfriends lived with me at my [mother’s] house when I was just 14. It was the smartest thing my mother could have done because, this way, we weren’t hanging out in a park together. We lived like a married couple for two years. By the time I was 16, I wanted my freedom and wanted to focus on work.

6 Nov, 1988

Emma Stone born in Scottsdale, Arizona

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emma-stone-5Emily Jean “Emma” Stone is born in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean and Jeffrey Charles Stone. Her father is the founder and CEO of a general-contracting company while her mother is a housewife. She has an younger brother named Spencer. She attends Sequoya Elementary School in Scottsdale.

We did live on the 16th hole of the Camelback golf course. But it once said on Wikipedia that my parents owned the golf course, which could not be further from the truth. But if you’re in Arizona, you’re at least within a couple miles of, if not on, a golf course.

Nina Pham born in Forth Worth

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Nina Pham is born in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the eldest of three daughters born to Vietnamese immigrants who left the country after the Vietnam War, and eventually settled in Fort Worth. A former neighbor of the Phams, described Nina as an active little girl who became a nurse because “she has a big heart.”

Runs for student government president

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Scott Walker's campaign put out this campaign literature during his 1988 bid for president of the Associated Students of Marquette University. MANDATORY CREDIT: Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Marquette University LibrariesWalker runs for president of the student body against John Quigley. Walker runs on a 19-point resume. He urges cooperation with administrators and opposes sit-ins and protests. He promises safer streets and bringing in cool bands like INXS and REM. He also highlights his anti-abortion views. He hands out buttons that say “Beam Me Up, Scotty!” Slogans are sprayed on campus snowbanks with water and food coloring. The campaign also arranges a special deal at Lucci’s Pizza: Walker voters get extra cheese free. However, the election commission finds Walker guilty of campaigning a week early. His supporters are accused of stealing copies of the campus newspaper that endorses his opponent so students cannot read it. The day before the election Stephen Satran, Walker’s roommate and supporter, distributes a flier attacking Walker’s opponent. The next day the campus newspaper says Walker is unfit for president. Walker loses the election 1,245 to 927. Many think he loses because of that flier. Satran:

That was all because of something I did. Scott didn’t even know about it. The worst thing you can say about him in that time was that he shouldn’t have trusted some of his friends. He shouldn’t have trusted me.

14 Jul, 1988

Conor McGregor born in Dublin, Ireland

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Conor McGregor childhood picConor McGregor is born in Crumlin, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, to Tony McGregor and Margaret. Tony, the child of an Irish father and English mother, was born in Liverpool, England. But his family splits up when he was seven, and he is sent to live with relatives in Dublin. He meets Margaret when they are 15, while walking to school. A year later, they both land jobs in a local factory, and a romance sparked. They are married in 1980, when both were 21. Conor’s sister Erin is born in 1981. Conor attends Irish-language primary and secondary school in Tallaght, South Dublin. He plays football for Lourdes Celtic Football Club and supports Manchester United. Sometimes he pops into the boxing gym next to the football club before and after football practice, but that is the extent of his interest.

I was really focused on football.

30 Apr, 1988

Wilson, Hanks marry

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24-Tom-Hanks-And-Rita-Wilson's-LoveHanks marries Greek actress, Rita Wilson, in Los Angeles.

16 Mar, 1988

Aiko born in Los Angeles

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jhene-aiko-youngJhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo is born in Los Angeles to Christina and Dr. Karamo Chilombo. She is the youngest of five siblings. Her entire family pursues music and her older sisters are a part of the R&B group Gyrl.

By the time I was born all my brothers and sisters were singing. My sisters had a singing group since I can remember.