1991 Death Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered 1989 Event Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie 1989 Event Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses" 1989 Event Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie 1989 Event 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel 1989 Event 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England 1953 Death Dimitur Poljanov, Popov, Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies 1947 Birthday Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist, Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses 1915 Birthday Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poet, That Woman and Other Verses
