The historic peace accord between Israel and Egypt, agreed to by Menachem Begin and Anwar el-S─d─t and negotiated by U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Maryland, in September 1978, was signed this day in 1979.
| 1992: | | Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison following a rape conviction in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
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| 1971: | | Members of the Awami League set up a government-in-exile in Calcutta (Kolkata) and declared Bangladesh an independent state. |
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| 1930: | | Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to become a U.S. Supreme Court justice, was born in El Paso, Texas. |
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| 1927: | | The Mille Miglia, the famed automobile race across Italy, was inaugurated. |
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| 1885: | | | The first clash of the Riel Rebellion in Canada took place in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan. |
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| 1827: | | | Ludwig van Beethoven died of cirrhosis of the liver in Vienna. |
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