Anwar Sadat addressed the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, presenting the Arab case for peace in a speech credited with reshaping Middle East geopolitics.
Sources: Knesset (Parliament of Israel) ; PalQuest (Institute for Palestine Studies)
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Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
On this day: November 20 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Islamist gunmen attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, taking some 170 guests and staff hostage and killing 20 people.
Sources: BBC News ; Los Angeles Times
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CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1923 Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist and anti-apartheid activist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in Springs, Transvaal.
Sources: Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation) ; South African History Online
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