Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, corecipient with Shimon Peres and Ysir ‘Araft of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994, was assassinated this day in 1995 by a Jewish extremist while attending a peace rally.
More Events on this day:
1980: Conservative Republican Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States.
1979: A hostage crisis in Iran began as the U.S. embassy in Tehrn was seized by Iranian militants in a move sanctioned by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1922: British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen.
1791: In what became known as St. Clair’s Defeat, U.S. General Arthur St. Clair was beaten by the British-supported Northwest Indian Confederation.
Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online Daily
