Actress Soha Ali Khan

Events in 1978 and 4-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Soha Ali Khan

• Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule (Feb. 15).
• US Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty (March 16); votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000 (April 18).
• Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards (March 16); he is found slain (May 9).
• Pope Paul VI , dead at 80, mourned (Aug. 6); new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office (Sept. 28); succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II (Oct. 16).
• "Framework for Peace" in Middle East signed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Jimmy Carter (Sept. 17).
• Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana (Nov. 18).

Birthday Soha Ali Khan (4-10) in history

• Day 4-10 year 1887: The International Herald Tribune was published for the first time.
• Day 4-10 year 1895: The first U.S. Open Golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
• Day 4-10 year 1957: The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the earth, ushering in the Space Age and Space Race.
• Day 4-10 year 1965: Pope Paul VI made the first visit to the Western Hemisphere by a reigning pope. He came to New York to address the UN General Assembly.
• Day 4-10 year 1970: Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead of a drug overdose at age 27.
• Day 4-10 year 1990: The German parliament met for the first time since the reunification of Germany.
• Day 4-10 year 2001: Authorities confirmed a tabloid editor in Florida had contracted anthrax. He died the next day.
• Day 4-10 year 2002: John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," received a 20-year sentence.