TV show host Hamdi Qandil

Events in 1936 and 23-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Hamdi Qandil

• 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 Hamdi Qandil (23-4) in history

• Day 23-4 year 1616: Great Britain's playwright William Shakespeare passed away aged 52 in Stratford-on-Avon, England.
• Day 23-4 year 1954: Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 home runs.
• Day 23-4 year 1969: Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death (later reduced to a life sentence) for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
• Day 23-4 year 1985: Coca-Cola announced that it was changing its formula and introduced New Coke.
• Day 23-4 year 1998: James Earl Ray, convicted of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., died.
• Day 23-4 year 2004: The U.S. resumed diplomatic relations with Libya.