The scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan

Events in 1936 and 1-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Abdul Qadeer Khan

• Rome-Berlin Axis is proclaimed (Japan to join in 1940).
• King George V dies; succeeded by son, Edward VIII, who soon abdicates to marry an American-born divorcée, and is succeeded by brother, George VI.
• Spanish civil war begins. Hundreds of Americans join the "Lincoln Brigades." (Franco's fascist forces defeat Loyalist forces by 1939, when Madrid falls.)
• War between China and Japan begins, to continue through World War II.
• Japan and Germany sign anti-Comintern pact; joined by Italy in 1937.
• Gen. Anastasio Somoza leads a coup d'etat in Nicaragua ushering in Somoza family dictatorship for more than 4 decades.

Birthday Abdul Qadeer Khan (1-4) in history

• Day 1-4 year 1789: Mr Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Day 1-4 year 1933: The Nazi persecution of Jews began in Germany with a boycott of Jewish businesses.
• Day 1-4 year 1945: American forces landed on Okinawa during World War II.
• Day 1-4 year 1960: The first U.S. weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral.
• Day 1-4 year 1970: President Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads from radio and television.
• Day 1-4 year 1976: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer.
• Day 1-4 year 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Day 1-4 year 2001: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic arrested on corruption charges.
• Day 1-4 year 2003: Pvt. Jessica Lynch was rescued by U.S. commandos in a raid on an Iraqi hospital.
• Day 1-4 year 2004: President Bush signed the "Laci Peterson" bill making it a separate federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on the mother.
• Day 1-4 year 2009: Sweden becomes the fifth European country to legalize same-sex marriage. The other countries with the same rights are The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Spain.