On October 26, 1994, at the Arava border crossing in southern Israel, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, ending nearly half a century of war.
Former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and former Jordanian prime minister Abdelsalam Atalla al-Majali signed the treaty.
Also in attendance were former Israeli president Ezer Weizman, King Hussein of Jordan, former US president Bill Clinton, and former US secretary of state Warren Christopher.
"At the start of the hour-long ceremony, the Jordanian and Israeli army bands each played their national anthems, and then together played 'The Star-Spangled Banner, '" The Jerusalem Post's original article on the ceremony reported.
Following Egypt in 1979, Jordan was the second Arab country in the Middle East to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
Israel and Jordan had been at war since Israel's founding, joining the collection of Arab nations in the war against Israel in 1948.
A tentative, temporary ceasefire fell between the two countries for nearly twenty years until 1967 and the start of Israel's Six Day War against Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq. The fiercest battles between the two took place in Jerusalem, culminating in the 66th Paratroopers Brigade's capture of the Old City.
Finally, in 1987, seven years before the treaty between Israel and Jordon was signed, Shimon Peres and King Hussein secretly drafted a prospective peace plan where Israel would concede the West Bank to Jordan. This plan, however, fell through due to an objection from former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir.
Passing of famous Six Day War radio broadcaster
On the same date in 2015, 21 years later, Refael Amir, a Kol Israel radio broadcaster, was laid to rest at the age of 92.
Amir rose in popularity at the end of the Six-Day War's battle for Jerusalem, when he accompanied the paratroopers across the Temple Mount and down to the Western Wall.
"At this moment, I am going down the steps to the Kotel," Amir narrated on the morning of June 7. "I am not a religious man, nor have I ever been one. But that is the Kotel. And I am touching the stones of the Kotel."
The broadcast continued with an echoing, joined prayer from those present of Shehecheyanu, the blessing said on reaching a special moment.