ON THIS DAY- On this day in 1977, President Anwar Sadat began his historic trip to Israel during which he offered Israel’s Knesset a peace plan a day later. Sadat was the first Arab leader ever to visit Israel. In 1863, US President Abraham Lincoln delivered the brief but renowned Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the National Cemetery in Pennsylvania during the American Civil War. The crew on board the second Apollo mission landed on the moon in 1969 as astronauts, Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lieutenant-Commander Alan Bean, made a perfect landing on smooth ground between craters in the Ocean of Storms, four days after takeoff. Former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was born on this day in 1917. The EGP fell to a 19-month low of EGP 7.70 per USD 1 this time in 2014. A year later, we were reporting on Daesh’s claims that it downed the Metrojet flight 9268 using an IED.