King Hussein and Arafat sign a peace…
September 1970 CE
King Hussein and Arafat sign a peace agreement, in which Hussein makes concessions to the PLO, in Cairo on September 27, 1970.
On the following day, the fifty-two-year-old Nasser, who has tentatively accepted a U.S. plan leading to peace negotiations with Israel, dies of a heart attack, and is succeeded by his vice president, Anwar el-Sadat.