This Day in History
1978: Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin awarded Nobel Peace Prize
On this day in 1978, Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for negotiations that resulted first in the Camp David Accords, then in a peace treaty between their countries.
More events on this day
2000: At a concert near Tel Aviv, the music of German composer Richard Wagner, which many associate with the Nazi regime, was played for the first time in public in Israel.
1979: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, an island nation lying within the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, achieved its independence.
1968: Lise MeitnerPhysicist Lise Meitner, whose research (along with that of Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann) led to the discovery of nuclear fission, died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
1961: The first Saturn rocket was successfully launched, and years later the Saturn V was the launch vehicle used in the Apollo moon-landing flights.
1795: Pinckney's Treaty, an agreement between the United States and Spain, was signed, giving the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River.
1492: Christopher Columbus, oil painting, said to be the most accurate likeness of the explorer, …Christopher Columbus sailed to Cuba and claimed the island for Spain.
939: Athelstan, the first king to rule over all of England, died.
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