On This Day - March 26th

Featured Event:

Signing of Israel-Egypt peace treaty (1979) 🤝

The historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, agreed to by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat and based on the Camp David Accords mediated by U.S. President Jimmy Carter in September 1978, was signed this day in 1979.

Other Events:

1971: Members of the Awami League set up a government-in-exile in Calcutta (Kolkata) and declared Bangladesh an independent state. 🇧🇩

1992: Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison following a rape conviction in Indianapolis, Indiana. 🥊

2000: Russian intelligence officer and politician Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia. 🇷🇺

2005: Sixteen years after being canceled, the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who returned to television with a new episode. 📺

Holidays:

Independence Day 🇧🇩

Democracy Day 🇲🇱

Purple Day 🇨🇦🇺🇸

Featured Birthdays:

1925: Pierre Boulez 🇫🇷 (Composer)

1931: Leonard Nimoy 🇺🇸 (Actor)

1962: John Stockton 🇺🇸 (Basketball Player)

1973: Larry Page 🇺🇸 (Computer Scientist)

Featured Deaths:

1827: Ludwig Van Beethoven 🇩🇪 (Composer)

1892: Walt Whitman 🇺🇸 (Poet)

1995: Eazy-E 🇺🇸 (Musician)