642 Arab forces under Amr ibn al-'As conquer Alexandria 1683 Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the first to report the existence of bacteria 1787 The US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention 1862 Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the American Civil War: 22,000 dead, wounded or missing in first battle on Union soil 1916 WWI flying ace The Red Baron of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France 1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain 1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel | 
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