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. 1978.
North Korea and South Korea were admitted to the United Nations. 1991.
Greve (count) Folke Bernadotte was assassinated by Jewish extremists while serving the United Nations as mediator between the Arabs and the Israelis. 1948.
During World War II the Soviet army invaded Poland from the east—joining Germany, which had launched its attack several weeks earlier—and the Polish government fled to Romania. 1939.
American Harriet Tubman escaped from the Southern plantation where she was enslaved and later led other enslaved people to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad. 1849.
The U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 delegates of the Constitutional Convention. 1787.
