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Rabin and Arafat sign a 300-page interim deal on the West Bank and Gaza

Clinton witnesses as the two leaders divide the West Bank into three zones, Areas A, B, and C.

Two years after the Oslo Declaration of Principles, the details still had to be worked out on paper. On September 28, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signed the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in Washington, D.C., with President Bill Clinton witnessing alongside representatives of Russia, Egypt, Jordan, Norway, and the European Union. The document divided the West Bank into Areas A, B, and C and set a five-year clock toward a permanent settlement. That settlement was never reached…

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1781

Washington surrounds Cornwallis at Yorktown; the armies sleep in the open

French troops take the left, Americans the right, as work parties bridge the marsh by torchlight.
1779

Huntington takes the chair of Congress, succeeding Jay

The Connecticut delegate inherits an unpaid post with no real power, at the darkest stretch of the war.
1787

Congress votes to send the new Constitution to the states for approval

The document Washington's convention finished eleven days earlier now goes to thirteen legislatures for judgment.
19241776 Club
New Orleans and Chicago finish 26,345 miles and 175 days after losing two sister planes along the way.
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1995

Discovery lifts off at last; woodpecker damage and a mid-count signal flag had held it back

Six hours after launch, the crew deploys TDRS-G, the last first-generation tracking satellite, raised toward geostationary orbit by the Inertial Upper Stage.
2013

Cassini turns its camera toward Earth; Saturn's shadow makes it possible

Imaging leader Carolyn Porco positioned the spacecraft to catch the sun eclipsed by Saturn, putting Earth in the frame 1.44 billion kilometers away, and millions look up and wave.
1997

Old Ironsides sails again; Cronkite takes the helm off Marblehead

The 1797 frigate moves under her own canvas for the first time in 116 years, on sails paid for through a national campaign of citizen and student donations.
1999

Collins becomes first woman to command a shuttle; Columbia loses an engine on the way up

A loose pin ruptures coolant tubes during ascent, but Columbia still reaches orbit to release the heaviest payload NASA had ever flown.
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