Journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Events in 1978 and 12-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

• 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 Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (12-11) in history

• Day 12-11 year 1920: Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.
• Day 12-11 year 1927: Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union.
• Day 12-11 year 1942: The World War II battle of Guadalcanal begins.
• Day 12-11 year 1954: Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.
• Day 12-11 year 1970: A cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing over 200,000 people.
• Day 12-11 year 1981: The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time. It was the first time a space vehicle was used more than once.
• Day 12-11 year 1990: Akihito becomes emperor of Japan.
• Day 12-11 year 1997: Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.