After decades of bloody animosity, representatives of Israel and Palestine meet on the South Lawn of the White House and sign a framework for peace. The “Declaration of Principles” was the first agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians towards ending their conflict and sharing the holy land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea that they both claim as their homeland.
Israel and Palestine signed their first major agreement. Palestine was granted limited self-government in the Gaza Strip and in Jericho.
On this day in 1968, North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation’s territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.
The Pueblo’s mission began in early January, 1968, when the crew set off from the U.S. Navy base on Yokosuka, Japan with orders to conduct surveillance on Soviet Navy and North Korean signal and electronic intelligence activity.
The captured crew (above) were beaten and nearly starved in the incident that almost led to another war.
Pueblo on display in North Korea, 2012.
North Koreans raise their fists during a rally in 2010 in front of the U.S. Navy spy ship Pueblo.
On this day in 1977, the TV mini-series "Roots," began airing on ABC. The show was based on the Alex Haley novel. Roots received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which still holds a record as the third-highest-rated episode for any type of television series, and the second-most watched overall series finale in U.S. television history.
LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte, a warrior of the Mandinka people in Gambia who is captured by slavers and taken to Annapolis, Md.
John William Carson(October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)
Statue of George Washington, State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia.
Roger Eugene Maris(September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985)
Roger Maris was an professional baseball player who played four seasons in the minor leagues and twelve seasons in the major leagues. He played right field on four Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, from 1957 through 1968 and set the MLB record for home runs during the 1961 season with 61, breaking Babe Ruth‘s single-season record of 60 home runs in 1927.
The Battle of Antietam took place during the American Civil War on this day in 1862. More than 23,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing. The Rebel advance was ended with heavy losses to both armies.
Dead Confederate soldiers from Starke’s Louisiana Brigade, on the Hagerstown Turnpike, north of the Dunker Church.
Casualties near the Dunker Church.
On this day in 1972, the series "M*A*S*H" premiered on CBS-TV.
George Wallace was the 45th Governor of Alabama, a position he occupied for four terms.
June 1963
May 1972
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)
In his later years, Wallace suffered from deafness and Parkinson’s disease. He died of septic shock from a bacterial infection in Jackson Hospital in Montgomery on September 13, 1998. He suffered from respiratory problems in addition to complications from his gunshot spinal injury.
