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Mar 26, 1979: Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed
In a ceremony at the White House, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign a historic peace agreement, ending three decades of hostilities between Egypt and Israel and establishing diplomatic and commercial ties.
Less than two years earlier, in an unprecedented move for an Arab leader, Sadat traveled to Jerusalem, Israel, to seek a permanent peace settlement with Egypt's Jewish neighbor after decades of conflict. Sadat's visit, in which he met with Begin and spoke before Israel's parliament, was met with outrage in most of the Arab world. Despite criticism from Egypt's regional allies, Sadat continued to pursue peace with Begin, and in September 1978 the two leaders met again in the United States, where they negotiated an agreement with U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Maryland. The Camp David Accords, the first peace agreement between the state of Israel and one of its Arab neighbors, laid the groundwork for diplomatic and commercial relations. Seven months later, a formal peace treaty was signed.
For their achievement, Sadat and Begin were jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. Sadat's peace efforts were not so highly acclaimed in the Arab world--Egypt was suspended from the Arab League, and on October 6, 1981, Muslim extremists assassinated Sadat in Cairo. Nevertheless, the peace process continued without Sadat, and in 1982 Egypt formally established diplomatic relations with Israel.
Mar 26, 1969: Antiwar demonstration in Washington
A group called Women Strike for Peace demonstrate in Washington, D.C., in the first large antiwar demonstration since President Richard Nixon's inauguration in January. The antiwar movement had initially given Nixon a chance to make good on his campaign promises to end the war in Vietnam. However, it became increasingly clear that Nixon had no quick solution. As the fighting dragged on, antiwar sentiment against the president and his handling of the war mounted steadily during his term in office.
Mar 26, 1997: Heaven's Gate cult members found dead
Following an anonymous tip, police enter a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive suburb of San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide. The deceased--21 women and 18 men of varying ages--were all found lying peaceably in matching dark clothes and Nike sneakers and had no noticeable signs of blood or trauma. It was later revealed that the men and women were members of the "Heaven's Gate" religious cult, whose leaders preached that suicide would allow them to leave their bodily "containers" and enter an alien spacecraft hidden behind the Hale-Bopp comet.
The cult was led by Marshall Applewhite, a music professor who, after surviving a near-death experience in 1972, was recruited into the cult by one of his nurses, Bonnie Lu Nettles. In 1975, Applewhite and Nettles persuaded a group of 20 people from Oregon to abandon their families and possessions and move to eastern Colorado, where they promised that an extraterrestrial spacecraft would take them to the "kingdom of heaven." Nettles, who called herself "Ti," and Applewhite, who took the name of "Do," explained that human bodies were merely containers that could be abandoned in favor of a higher physical existence. As the spacecraft never arrived, membership in Heaven's Gate diminished, and in 1985 Bonnie Lu Nettles, Applewhite's "sexless partner," died.
During the early 1990s, the cult resurfaced as Applewhite began recruiting new members. Soon after the 1995 discovery of the comet Hale-Bopp, the Heaven's Gate members became convinced that an alien spacecraft was on its way to earth, hidden from human detection behind the comet. In October 1996, Applewhite rented a large home in Rancho Santa Fe, explaining to the owner that his group was made up of Christian-based angels. Applewhite advocated sexual abstinence, and several male cult members followed his example by undergoing castration operations.
In 1997, as part of its 4,000-year orbit of the sun, the comet Hale-Bopp passed near Earth in one of the most impressive astronomical events of the 20th century. In late March 1997, as Hale-Bopp reached its closest distance to Earth, Applewhite and 38 of his followers drank a lethal mixture of phenobarbital and vodka and then lay down to die, hoping to leave their bodily containers, enter the alien spacecraft, and pass through Heaven's Gate into a higher existence.
Mar 26, 1920: F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel published
This Side of Paradise is published, immediately launching 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald to fame and fortune.
Fitzgerald, named for his ancestor Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star Spangled Banner," was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to a once well-to-do family that had descended in wealth and influence. With the funding of a well-off aunt, Fitzgerald was sent to boarding school in New Jersey in 1911 and attended Princeton University two years later. Although Fitzgerald engaged actively in theater, arts, and other campus activity, his financial background was considerably poorer than those of his classmates, and his outsider status, whether real or imaginary, left a sting. He left Princeton after three years and joined the army during World War I.
While in the military, he was stationed in Montgomery, Alabama, where he developed a romance with the privileged, pampered Zelda Sayre, daughter of a State Supreme Court justice. Like the heroine of The Great Gatsby, she rejected the young man, fearing he would not be able to support her, and like Gatsby, Fitzgerald vowed to win her back. He moved to New York, rewrote a novel about Princeton he had started in college, and promptly became the youngest author ever published by Scribner's. His fame and fortune secure for the moment, he convinced Zelda to marry him, and the two began a whirlwind life of glamorous parties and extravagant living in New York.
Unfortunately, the Fitzgeralds lived far beyond their means and soon found themselves deeply in debt. They moved to Europe, hoping to cut back on expenses, where they befriended other expatriate writers, including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. While in Europe, Fitzgerald finished his masterpiece The Great Gatsby (1925).
Unfortunately, the Fitzgeralds failed to cut back on their extravagant ways. Although Fitzgerald published dozens of short stories-178 in his lifetime, for which he was amply paid-the couple's debts mounted. Fitzgerald plunged into alcoholism, and his wife became increasingly unstable. In 1930, she suffered the first of several breakdowns and was institutionalized. She spent the rest of her life in a sanitarium. Fitzgerald's next novel, Tender Is the Night, failed to resonate with the American public, and Fitzgerald's fortune's plummeted. In 1937, he moved to Hollywood to try screenwriting. He fell in love with a Hollywood gossip columnist, stopped drinking, and began renewed literary efforts but died of a heart attack in 1940, at the age of 44.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
1027 - John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German
emperor
1147 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate
anti-Jewish violence
1150 - Tichborne family of Hampshire England started
tradition of giving a Gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's
Fables.
1526 - King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France
1534 - Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 - University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 - England takes control of Bombay India
1692 - King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South
Netherlands
1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette
& Sunday Monitor)
1790 - Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year
residency
1793 - Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of
Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 - Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son,
Ferdinand VII.
1812 - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas Venezuela; about
20,000 die
1821 - Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess,"
premieres in Vienna
1824 - 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa
Solemnis"
1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 - 1st Henley Royal Regatta
1845 - Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron
lifeboat
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster,
precusor of bandaid
1852 - Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
1856 - NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW
won
1859 - 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit
inside Mercury
1862 - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon,
Pigeon's Ranch)
1863 - Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation
of slaves
1871 - Paris Commune founded
1872 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 - Hastings College of Law founded
1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated
game reserve, opens
1881 - Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture
film
1885 - Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck
Lake, Sask
1886 - 1st cremation in England
1889 - Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South
Africa v England
1889 - Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South
Africa at Newlands
1889 - South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v
England
1895 - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts
Spain's Arbor Day
1900 - 1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably
Amsterdam)
1903 - American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1909 - August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti,"
premieres in Stockholm
1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists,
paupers & the sick
1910 - William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
1913 - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan
War
1913 - Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami,
& Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
1915 - Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep
Ottawa Senators
1916 - Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1917 - Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat
Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley
Cup
1923 - Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires
(PCHA), 3 games to 1
1924 - Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in
London
1926 - ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
1926 - The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1927 - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
1927 - Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1930 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American
highway
1931 - Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
1931 - Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in
Lorain, Ohio
1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of
British-Indies
1934 - Driving tests introduced in Britain
1935 - "RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss
armament of Spitfire
1936 - 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
1936 - 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass
Works, NY-Cal Tech
1936 - Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937 - Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his
40 with 36 oz bat
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of
Popeye
1937 - William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge
(Virgin Islands)
1938 - NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
Nobel Laureate Author Ernest HemingwayNobel Laureate Author
Ernest Hemingway 1940 - Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC
1942 - 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz &
Birkenau Camps
1942 - 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach
concentration camp Belzec
1942 - 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa,
kills 21
1942 - German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general
Rommel
1943 - 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S
Ott)
1943 - Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1943 - Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force
Medal
1944 - 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 - British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine
(near Ginsberg)
1945 - De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George
Mikan scores 34
1945 - Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen
the Rhine
1945 - Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 - Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 - US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
US General George S. PattonUS General George S. Patton 1945
- Venray soccer team forms
1949 - 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky
beats Oklahoma State 46-36
1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open
1951 - USAF flag approved
1952 - 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats
St Johns 80-63
1952 - F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn
Mississippi," premieres in Munich
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent
polio[myelitis]
1953 - Salk Polio vaccine announced
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1
record in US
1956 - Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956 - Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River
Kwai," Woodward & Guinness win
1958 - Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer
III
1958 - US Army launched America's third successful
satellite, "Explorer III"
1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a
meeting in Paris.
1959 - Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad v WI age 15 yrs 124
days
1960 - Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem
1960 - Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
1960 - USC captures NCAA swimming title
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival
1962 - Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of
seats in state leg
1964 - "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater
NYC for 1,348 performances
1965 - A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton,
Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry
Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
1967 - 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum
progressio
1969 - Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1969 - Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use
1969 - Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 - "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater
NYC for 80 performances
1970 - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since
1945
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to
"taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 - "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 - "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on
CBS-TV
1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 - "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison
Theater NYC after 144 perfs
1972 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf
Classic
1972 - LA Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games
(69-13)
1973 - 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats
Memphis 81-76
1973 - Soap "Young & Restless" premieres
1973 - Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's
Stock exchange
1973 - UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title
Boxing Champ George ForemanBoxing Champ George Foreman 1974
- George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title in Caracas,
Venezuela
1974 - Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu
president
1975 - "Tommy" premieres in London
1975 - Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game
without a win & NHL record of 17 straight loses
1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1976 - AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt
Brewing for $7M
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound"
album
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email,
from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1977 - Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less
Than Zero"
1977 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
1979 - 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich State
beats Indiana St 75-64
1979 - Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 - Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game
win streak
1979 - Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition
series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1980 - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The
Police)
Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth IIQueen of the United
Kingdom Elizabeth II 1981 - Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in
Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 - Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 - Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam
Veterans Memorial
1982 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release
"Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982 - Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 - August Wilson's "Fences," premieres in NYC
1987 - Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji
Trophy
1987 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 - Natl Fed of High School adopts college 3 point shot
(21 feet)
1988 - Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world
record (15:52.10)
1989 - 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris
Yeltsin wins
1989 - Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise
Golf Classic
1990 - 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy,"
D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
Russian President Boris YeltsinRussian President Boris
Yeltsin 1991 - Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
1991 - Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner,"
premieres in London
1991 - Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st
WLAF game 35-34
1991 - Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield
Shield Final
1992 - Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree
Washington
1992 - NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season
championship in 50 years
1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99
sec)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies
(7:03.26)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km
ladies (14:22.60)
1994 - Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating
championship in Tokyo
1995 - "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen
Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf
1995 - "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion
Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1995 - 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 - 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by
Nanci Bowen
1995 - Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win
Logan Cup
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike TysonHeavyweight Boxing
Champion Mike Tyson 1995 - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
1996 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld v
Vic)
1996 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2
billion loan for Russia.
1997 - "Annie," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to
open 1998 in Japan
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult
suicides.
1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed
with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word
processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of
second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill
man.
2000 - 72nd Academy Awards - "American Beauty,"
Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win
2005 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese
to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the
People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all
substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
2006 - The military junta ruling Burma officially named
Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had
formerly been the nation's capital.
2012 - Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
2012 - Canadian Film maker, James Cameron, becomes the first
person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years
1026 - Conrad II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XIX. 1799 - Napoleon captured Jaffa Palestine. 1780 - The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor was published for the first time. It was the first Sunday newspaper in Britain. 1793 - The Holy Roman Emperor formally declared war on France. 1804 - The U.S. Congress ordered the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi to Louisiana. 1804 - The Louisiana Purchase was divided into the District of Louisiana and the Territory of Orleans. 1854 - Charles III, duke of Parma, was attacked by an assassin. He died the next day. 1871 - The Paris Commune was formally set up. 1878 - Hastings College of Law was founded. 1885 - Eastman Kodak (Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co.) produced the first commercial motion picture film in Rochester, NY. 1898 - In South Africa, the world's first game reserve, the Sabi Game reserve, was designated. 1909 - Russian troops invaded Persia to support Muhammad Ali as shah in place of the constitutional government. 1910 - The U.S. Congress passed an amendment to the 1907 Immigration Act that barred criminals, paupers, anarchists and carriers of disease from settling in the U.S. 1913 - During the Balkan War, the Bulgarians took Adrianople. 1917 - At the start of the battle of Gaza, the British cavalry withdrew when 17,000 Turks blocked their advance. 1937 - Spinach growers in Crystal City, TX, erected a statue of Popeye. 1938 - Herman Goering warned all Jews to leave Austria. 1942 - The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland. 1945 - The battle of Iwo Jima ended. 1945 - In the Aleutians, the battle of Komandorski began when the Japanese attempted to reinforce a garrison at Kiska and were intercepted by a U.S. naval force. 1951 - The U.S. Air Force flag was approved. The flag included the coat of arms, 13 white stars and the Air Force seal on a blue background. 1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine that would prevent poliomyelitis. 1956 - Red Buttons made his debut as a television actor in "Studio One" on CBS television. 1958 - The U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, Explorer III. 1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court supported the 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in the State Legislature. 1969 - The TV movie "Marcus Welby" was seen on ABC-TV. It was later turned into a series. 1971 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared East Pakistan to be the independent republic of Bangladesh. 1971 - "Cannon" premiered on CBS-TV as a movie. It was turned into a series later in the year. 1972 - The Los Angeles Lakers broke a National Basketball Association (NBA) record by winning 69 of their 82 games. 1973 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat took over the premiership and said "the stage of total confrontation (with Israel) has become inevitable." 1973 - Women were allowed on the floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time. 1979 - The Camp David treaty was signed by Israel and Egypt that ended the 31-year state of war between the countries. 1981 - In Great Britain, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) gained official recognition. 1982 - Ground breaking ceremonies were held in Washington, DC, for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 1983 - The U.S. performed a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. 1989 - The first free elections took place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin was elected. 1991 - The presidents of Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay signed an agreement that established the Southern Cone Common Market, a free-trade zone, by January 1, 1995. 1992 - In Indianapolis, heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was found guilty of rape. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison. He only served three. 1995 - Seven of the 15 European Union states abolished border controls. 1996 - The International Monetary Fund approved a $10.2 billion loan for Russia to help the country transform its economy. 1997 - The 39 bodies of Heaven's Gate members are found in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. The group had committed suicide thinking that they would be picked up by a spaceship following behind the comet Hale-Bopp. 1998 - In the U.S., the Federal government endorses new HIV test that yields instant results. 1998 - Unisys Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. pay a $3.15 million fine for selling spare parts at inflated prices to the U.S. federal government. 1999 - The macro virus "Melissa" was reported for the first. 1999 - In Michigan, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for giving a terminally ill man a lethal injection and putting it all on videotape on September 17, 1998 for "60 Minutes." 2000 - The Seattle Kingdome was imploded to make room for a new football arena. 2000 - In Russia, acting President Vladimir Putin was elected president outright. He won a sufficient number of votes to avoid a runoff election. 2007 - The design for the "Forever Stamp" was unveiled by the U.S. Postal Service.
1827 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died at age 56 in Vienna, Austria. 1945 The battle of Iwo Jima ended; about 22,000 Japanese troops were killed or captured in the fighting and more than 4,500 U.S. troops were killed. 1971 East Pakistan proclaimed its independence, taking the name Bangladesh. 1979 In a ceremony at the White House, President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Begin of Israel signed a peace treaty ending 30 years of war between the two countries. 1982 Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial took place in Washington, DC. 2000 Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.
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