Future President Jimmy Carter filed a report with the
International UFO Bureau on September 18, 1973,
claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object
(UFO) in October 1969.

During the presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic
challenger Carter was forthcoming about his belief that
he had seen a UFO. He described waiting outside for a
Lion’s Club Meeting in Leary, Georgia, to begin, at about
7:30 p.m., when he spotted what he called “the darndest
thing I’ve ever seen” in the sky.

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).

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shaking
hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York,
when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approached
him and fired two shots into his chest. The president rose slightly
on his toes before collapsing forward, saying “be careful how you
tell my wife.”

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American
students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis on this
day, in which the students were initially prevented from entering
the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower.

A photograph of Elizabeth Eckford attempting to enter
Little Rock School on 4th September, 1957. 

Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas (1910 – 1994)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)

Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated to run for the presidency at
the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

His running mate would be Hubert H. Humphrey. Former Vice
President Johnson had assumed the reigns of government in
November 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated.

Upon assuming office, he inherited a commitment to Vietnam
where Kennedy had sent military advisors to support the South Vietnamese government in Saigon.

Following the Tonkin Gulf incident earlier in August when
North Vietnamese torpedo boats reportedly attacked U.S.
destroyers, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
empowering Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel
an armed attack against the forces of the United States and to
prevent further aggression.”