TV actor Shabbir Ahluwalia

Events in 1979 and 10-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Shabbir Ahluwalia

• 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 Shabbir Ahluwalia (10-8) in history

• Day 10-8 year 1821: Missouri became the 24th state in the United States.
• Day 10-8 year 1846: The Smithsonian Institution was established in Washington, D.C., from funds left by British scientist James Smithson.
• Day 10-8 year 1921: Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on Campobello island.
• Day 10-8 year 1944: U.S. forces seized Guam from Japan.
• Day 10-8 year 1948: Candid Camera with Allen Funt debuted on television.
• Day 10-8 year 1988: President Reagan signed a bill that awarded $20,000 to each survivor of the Japanese-American internment.
• Day 10-8 year 1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female U.S. Supreme Court justice.