Source: Good News Network
On this day 40 years ago, Jimmy Carter opened 12 days of secret negotiations at Camp David between the two leaders Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat that would soon lead to the signing of the first peace accord between Israel and one of its Arab neighbors. (1978)
MORE Good News on this Day:
- The first United States Labor Day parade was held in New York City (1882)
- The Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, was signed in New Hampshire (1905)
- Baseball legend Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run knocking in three runs; as the pitcher, he also threw a one-hitter that day for his Providence club that beat Toronto 9-0 (1914)
- Janis Joplin began recording the song ‘Me and Bobby McGee’, written by lover and friend, Kris Kristofferson–the song that topped the US singles chart after her 1971 death (1970)
- The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention of 1989, the current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, came into force (1991)
- Denmark celebrated the first national Flag Day, in memory of the fallen Danes in international operations since 1948 (2009)
- The United Nations declared today as…
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