TV actor Mohib Mirza

Events in 1979 and 18-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Mohib Mirza

• Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime (Jan. 7).
• Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil (Jan. 16); revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (Feb. 1 et seq.).
• Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
• Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14).
• Nicaraguan President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami (July 17); Sandinistas form government (July 19).
• Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages (Nov. 4).
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests (Dec. 27).

Birthday Mohib Mirza (18-8) in history

• Day 18-8 year 1227: The great king of Mongolia, Genghis Khan died in China.
• Day 18-8 year 1587: Virginia Dare becomes the first British child born in the "New World" North America.
• Day 18-8 year 1894: Congress established the Bureau of Immigration, forerunner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
• Day 18-8 year 1920: When Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the three-quarters of the states necessary was achieved and American women got the right to vote.
• Day 18-8 year 1936: Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was shot and killed by Franco's soldiers during the Spanish Civil War .
• Day 18-8 year 1958: Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita was published.
• Day 18-8 year 1963: James Meredith became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.