Monday, March 26, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

MARCH 26
1979:Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, the result of negotiations brokered by President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Md., in September 1978. The treaty establishes mutual recognition between the two nations, demilitarizing the Sinai Peninsula and ending three decades of conflict.

1920: Twenty-three year old writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, launching the future author of the classic The Great Gatsby to literary fame.

1999: Infamous right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian is convicted by a Michigan jury of second-degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance, after a 60 Minutes episode showed him giving a lethal injection to a terminally ill patient.
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