Camp David Accords
Egypt becomes the first Arab state to make peace with Israel
On 17 September 1978, after 13 days of talks at the US presidential retreat, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin signed framework accords brokered by Jimmy Carter. Under the 1979 peace treaty Israel returned Sinai to Egypt by 1982. Sadat and Begin shared the Nobel Peace Prize, but Egypt was suspended from the Arab League for a decade, and Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 2 years later
- 1981 AIDS first described — 3 years later
Europe
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 25 years earlier
- 1968 May 1968 in France — 10 years earlier
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 11 years later
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 11 years later
- 1990 German reunification — 12 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — 21 years earlier
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — 17 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 7 years later
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 11 years later
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 13 years later
Africa
- 1963 The Organisation of African Unity is founded — 15 years earlier
- 1967 First human heart transplant — 11 years earlier
- 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War and Biafra — 11 years earlier
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 4 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 5 years later
Asia
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 25 years earlier
- 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution in China — 12 years earlier
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 3 years earlier
- 1976 Tangshan earthquake — 2 years earlier
- 1978 Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening-up — same year
Americas
- 1969 Moon landing — 9 years earlier
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 8 years earlier
- 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens — 2 years later
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 5 years later
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 23 years later
Oceania
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 24 years earlier
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 19 years earlier
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 14 years later
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 60)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 48)
- Golda Meir (aged 80)
- Jorge Luis Borges (aged 79)
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) (aged 77)
- Leonid Brezhnev (aged 72)
- Mother Teresa (aged 68)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 67)
- Richard Nixon (aged 65)
- Indira Gandhi (aged 61)