Also on this day: Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state of the Union. Women are granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory.
A treaty is signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. (AP Photo, File) Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; the co-recipient is Nicholas Murray Butler.
Otis Redding (AP Photo) President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev conclude three days of summit talks in Washington.
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin receive the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.The first group of U.S.
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