Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, corecipient with Shimon Peres and Yāsir ʿArafāt of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994, was assassinated this day in 1995 by a Jewish extremist while attending a peace rally. 1995.
Democratic politician Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected president of the United States. 2008.
The first film adaptation of J.K. Rowling‘s best-selling Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, premiered in London. 2001.
Conservative Republican Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States. 1980.
A hostage crisis in Iran began as the U.S. embassy in Tehrān was seized by Iranian militants in a move sanctioned by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. 1979.
UNESCO was officially established as its constitution entered into force; this specialized agency of the UN called for the promotion of international collaboration in education, science, and culture. 1946.
British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen. 1922.
