Source: Good News Network
On this day 25 years ago, the Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and Israel returns mutual recognition for the PLO as the official representative of the Palestinian people. (1993)
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MORE Good News on this Day:
- Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time (1956)
- The first U.S. civil rights bill was signed into law by US President Dwight Eisenhower (1957)
- The British Ambassador, Geoffrey Jackson, was freed 8 months after capture by guerrillas in Uruguay (1971)
- Tajikistan gained Independence from USSR (1991)
- The Irish Republican Army‘s political arm, Sinn Fein, formally renounced violence and took a seat at the table with British and Irish leaders to plan a negotiated settlement to end Northern Ireland’s civil unrest—seven 7 later, that’s exactly what happened (1997)
- Today is also Grandparents Day in America, a day to honor the elderly population and express gratitude and love for your grandparents. In 1979, the day was officially proclaimed by President Carter, after decades of lobbying from two distinct people, Jacob Reingold and Marian McQuade, the West Virginia woman who persuaded her state to become the first one to celebrate elders with a special day.
And on this day in 1890, Colonel Sanders of KFC fame was born.
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