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** Middelburg peace conference fails in South Africa as Boers continue to demand autonomy.
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** Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
** PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D. C., after signing a peace accord.
** The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of a peace process.
** Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.
** At a meeting in Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet meets with Soviet Ambassador Jakob Suritz, and suggests that a " peace front " comprising France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Poland and Romania would deter Germany from war.
** A peace convoy carrying Chechen separatist leaders and international diplomats is targeted by a series of remotely controlled land mines ; 8 are killed.
** El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
** UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.
** A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war ( they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam ).
** Zambia threatens to leave the Commonwealth of Nations because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia.
** and conference
** In 1947, Wooden's basketball team won the conference title and received an invitation to the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City.
** Anita Bryant is famously pied by four gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa.
** At a conference in Rome, 120 countries vote to create a permanent International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
** Vietnam War: U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U. S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile, because of North Vietnam's opposition.
** Cold War: Günter Schabowski accidentally states in live broadcast press conference that new rules for traveling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect " immediately ".
** American, British and Soviet scientists began to share previously classified controlled fusion research as part of the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva in September.
** Enrile and Ramos, surrounded by the their staff and guards hold a press conference at the Social Hall of the GHQAFP, and make the official announcement of their withdrawal of support of the Marcos administration.
** BCS conference, one of the six major NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision conferences whose champions receive an automatic bid into the Bowl Championship Series
** In college baseball, a conference will declare a game may be tied in extenuating circumstances, usually in the final game of a series only:
** Green: Party leader Jim Harris calls a press conference regarding his lawsuit against the broadcasters who plan on excluding him from the national televised debates.
** Capital move press conference-Alaska's surviving governors ( excepting Waino Hendrickson ) gather for a press conference on the capital move ballot issue, July 1982.
** PKC ( conference ), an acronym for the International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography
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