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THESE PAST EVENTS MADE HISTORY
PEACE FONFERENCE BEGAN ON THIS DAY
On January 18, 1919, in Paris, France, some of the most
powerful people in the world meet to begin the long,
complicated negotiations that would officially mark the
end of the First World War.
Dignitaries gathering in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, France, to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
Official delegates photograph taken at the conference.
The Council of Four (Also known as the ‘Big Four’) at the
Paris Peace Conference. President Woodrow Wilson is
at the far right.
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
Before Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak
served as a disc jockey during the
Vietnam War in Vietnam on the
Armed Forces Radio.
TV game show host Patrick Leonard
Sajak is 78 today.
PEACE ACCORD SIGNED ON THIS DAY IN 1993

After decades of bloody animosity, representatives of Israel
and Palestine met 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.
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (left), American president Bill Clinton (middle), and Palestinian political leader Yasser Arafat (right).

FIRST NOBEL PRIZES AWARDED ON THIS DAY
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in
the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace
on December 10, 1901.
The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives. In his will, Nobel directed that the bulk of his vast
fortune be placed in a fund in which the interest would be
“annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during
the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.”
Although Nobel offered no public reason for his creation of the
prizes, it is widely believed that he did so out of moral regret
over the increasingly lethal uses of his inventions in war.
First award ceremony at the Royal Swedish Academy of
Music.
Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel
(21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896)
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