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As part of the Oslo Accord implementation, the Israeli army withdrew from Nablus, a significant step in the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and territorial agreements.
The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995.
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Harry Gold was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his critical role in espionage during the Cold War era.
Gold was convicted of passing sensitive nuclear research information from the Manhattan Project to Soviet agents, specifically by assisting Klaus Fuchs in transmitting classified atomic research details to the Soviet Union.
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The World Health Organization confirmed a new case of the Ebola virus in the Ivory Coast, adding to the significant outbreak that had already claimed 250 lives in Zaire earlier that year.
This announcement highlighted the ongoing challenges of managing deadly infectious diseases in Africa.
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The Galileo mission, named in honour of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei who in 1610 discovered the four large moons orbiting Jupiter, received Congressional approval for flight in 1977, targeting a Space Shuttle launch in late 1981.
It fired its main engine on Dec. 7, 1995, becoming the first artificial satellite of Jupiter
By that time, Pioneer 10 and 11 had completed the first exploratory flybys of Jupiter and the more sophisticated Voyager 1 and 2 had just set out for their respective flybys.
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