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Friday, October 9, 2020
MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY
2012:
A
Taliban
gunman shot 15-year-old Pakistani activist
Malala Yousafzai
, a vocal opponent of the ultraconservative group's prohibition on the education of girls; despite being struck in the head, she survived the assassination attempt.
[
Read about six teenagers, including Malala Yousafzai, who made history
.]
2001:
The
United Service Organizations
(USO) appointed entertainer Wayne Newton as its official celebrity front man, replacing
Bob Hope
, who had served in that capacity since the early 1950s.
1888:
Built between 1848 and 1884 and dedicated in 1885, the
Washington Monument
—a marble-faced granite obelisk that honours the first
U.S. president
,
George Washington
—opened to the public in
Washington, D.C.
[
Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about U.S. presidents
.]
1997:
Italian playwright
Dario Fo
was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature
.
[
Test your knowledge of Nobel laureates in literature
.]
1990:
David Souter
took his seat as a U.S.
Supreme Court
associate justice.
[
Why are there nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court?
]
1982:
Anna Freud
, psychoanalyst, author, and daughter of
Sigmund Freud
, died in London.
[
Take our famous authors quiz
.]
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