Daily History Challenge · No. 7 · Sunday 5 July 2026 · Gauntlet
Puzzle No. 7: Gauntlet
The Sunday Gauntlet: three before or after calls, four events to order and a final When? on The Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO.
Act 1: Chain, against Vietnamese Declaration of Independence (1945 CE)
Before Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
Before Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
Before Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
Act 2: Order, earliest first
Act 3: When?
On 13 September 1993, at a ceremony on the White House lawn hosted by US President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat sealed the first Oslo Accord, the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, with a historic handshake. Negotiated secretly in Norway, the accord followed an exchange of letters days earlier in which the PLO recognised Israel's right to exist and renounced terrorism while Israel recognised the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. The agreement created a Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority and called for phased Israeli withdrawals from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, launching a peace process intended to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through negotiation. Rabin, Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres received the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. The Oslo II Accord followed in 1995. Although the process ultimately stalled and Rabin was assassinated in November 1995, the accords reshaped the framework of Middle East diplomacy and remain a reference point in subsequent efforts and disputes over a two-state solution.