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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49082)	9/17/2005 3:47:17 AM
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1978: Camp David Accords concluded The Camp David Accords, negotiated by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, were completed this day in 1978, leading to a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel and a broader framework for pursuing peace in the Middle East. More events on this day 1991: North Korea and South Korea were admitted to the United Nations. 1948: Folke, Greve (count) Bernadotte, was assassinated by Jewish extremists while serving the United Nations as mediator between the Arabs and the Israelis. 1939: During World War II the Soviet army invaded Poland from the east, and the Polish government fled to Romania. 1901: British adventurer Sir Francis Chichester, who sailed around the world alone in 1966–67 in the 55-foot (17-metre) yacht Gipsy Moth IV, was born. 1861: The forces of Buenos Aires province, commanded by Governor Bartolomé Mitre, defeated those of the Argentine Confederation, led by Justo José de Urquiza, at the Battle of Pavón. 1631: The Swedish-Saxon army under King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden destroyed the army of the Roman Catholic Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II and the Catholic League, under Johann Tserclaes, Graf (count) von Tilly, in the Battle of Breitenfeld. 1549: Pope Paul III suspended the Council of Trent after Charles V forbade the Spanish and German prelates to go to Bologna. 1374: The Polish nobility and their king, Louis I, signed the Pact of Koszyce. britannica.com