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1995: 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.More events on this day1980:Conservative Republican Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States. |
1979:The 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. |
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. |
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