Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, corecipient with Shimon Peres and Y─sir ?Araf─t of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994, was assassinated this day in 1995 by a Jewish extremist while attending a peace rally.
| 1980: | | | Conservative Republican Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States. |
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| 1979: | | | The hostage crisis in Iran began as the U.S. embassy in Tehr─n was seized by Iranian militants in a move sanctioned by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
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| 1922: | | | British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen. |
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| 1791: | | In what became known as St. Clair's Defeat, U.S. General Arthur St. Clair was beaten by the British-supported Northwest Indian Confederation. |
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