Friday, November 19, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

NOVEMBER 19
1977:Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to visit Israel, laying the groundwork for permanent peace with the Jewish state. During his landmark 36-hour visit, Sadat will deliver a speech before the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

1863: At the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, President Abraham Lincoln follows Edward Everett’s two-hour oration with a brief 273-word speech that will become one of the most famous in American history. The Gettysburg Address memorializes the fallen soldiers of the July 1863 Civil War battle and eloquently resolves “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

1990: The pop duo Milli Vanilli, composed of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, is stripped of its Grammy Award for Best New Artist, as neither frontman had actually sung on the award-winning Girl You Know It’s True record.

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