Today in history

March 26

1966
Over 50,000 marched in the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade in New York City.


1979
In a ceremony at the White House, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed a historic peace agreement, ending three decades of hostilities between Egypt and Israel, and establishing diplomatic and commercial ties.
Less than two years earlier, in an unprecedented move for an Arab leader, Sadat had traveled to Jerusalem to seek a permanent peace settlement with Egypt’s Jewish neighbor after decades of conflict.

2003
Over one million students in Spain went on strike in opposition to their government’s support of the U.S./U.K. invasion of Iraq.

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