Obama announces Iran nuclear deal (2016), and The Czech Republic applies to join the European Union (1996). Born on this day: Benjamin Franklin, Muhammad Ali and Michelle Obama. Died: Rutherford B. Hayes, Patrice Lumumba and Bobby Fischer.
31 events, 93 births and 73 deaths on this date.
Obama announced the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement meant to restrict Iran's nuclear programme. The aim was to make it harder for Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza · Public domainThe Czech Republic, a landlocked Central European country with Prague as its capital, formally asked to join the European Union. The bid was a step toward closer ties with Western Europe after decades of communist rule.
Dun Mikiel Xerri was a Maltese patriot who opposed French rule on the islands. He was executed, along with several other patriots, in January 1799.
Octavian, later Augustus, set aside Scribonia and married Livia Drusilla, breaking the uneasy truce he had kept with Sextus Pompey. Livia would become the wife of the first Roman emperor, a link that shaped the dynasty that followed.
С. И. Сосновский · CC BY-SA 4.0
Under James Cook, the Resolution sailed south of the Antarctic Circle on its second voyage, the first vessel known to do so. The crossing showed how far the Pacific and Southern Oceans could be charted from the sea.
Nathaniel Dance-Holland · Public domain
Franklin became a printer, scientist and diplomat, and the only man to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris and the Constitution. He is remembered for securing French support during the American Revolution and for his experiments with electricity.
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis · Public domain
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Benjamin Franklin was an American printer, inventor and diplomat who helped draft the Declaration of Independence. He is remembered as one of the Founding Fathers and for securing crucial French support during the American Revolutionary War.
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis · Public domain
Muhammad Ali was an American boxer and activist, widely regarded as the greatest heavyweight of all time. He was also a defiant voice against the Vietnam War, refusing the military draft at the cost of his titles.
Ira Rosenberg · Public domain
Michelle Obama is an American lawyer and author who served as First Lady from 2009 to 2017, and she is known for her advocacy on education, nutrition and healthy eating. Her memoir Becoming became a bestseller after she left the White House.
Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy · Public domain
The 19th president of the United States, he won the disputed 1876 election despite losing the popular vote. A Union officer wounded five times in the Civil War, he had also been governor of Ohio before taking office.
Mathew Benjamin Brady · Public domain
Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of independent Congo, ousted within months amid the Congo Crisis. Executed by Katangan separatists with Belgian mercenaries, he is remembered as a martyr of anti-colonial and pan-African causes.
Harry Pot for Anefo ) · CC BY 4.0
Bobby Fischer was an American chess grandmaster who became World Champion in 1972 by beating Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, a match billed as a Cold War contest. He later vanished from public life and died in Iceland, which had granted him citizenship.
Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-76052-0335,_Schacholympiade,_Tal_(UdSSR)_gegen_Fischer_(USA).jpg: Kohls, Ulrich derivative work: Karpouzi · CC BY-SA 3.0
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