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The 1867 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, voted on by the state legislature, was held on January 15, 1867. Simon Cameron was elected to the Senate for the third time; he had been chosen in 1845 and in 1857. Cameron and Governor Andrew Curtin each led a faction of Republicans and had clashed as early as 1855. Cameron tried to block Curtin from the party nomination for governor in 1860, while Curtin attempted to get Cameron excluded from Abraham Lincoln's cabinet; each failed. With the Republicans holding a majority in the 1867 legislature, the battle was for the party's endorsement, which Thaddeus Stevens and Galusha Grow also sought. The party caucus chose Cameron, who then defeated incumbent Edgar Cowan, the Democratic Party nominee. Cowan never again held office; Curtin later served in Congress as a Democrat. Cameron remained in the Senate until he resigned in 1877 to allow his son to take the seat. The Cameron political machine dominated Pennsylvania politics for a half century. (Full article...)
The Oslo I Accord was an attempt to set up a framework that would lead to the resolution of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It was the first face-to-face agreement between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It was ratified at a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C., on 13 September 1993, attended by Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, US president Bill Clinton and PLO leader Yasser Arafat. This photograph shows Arafat, Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres, and Rabin receiving the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslofor their participation in the accord.
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