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Today is Monday, October 9th, 282nd day into 2023. There are 83 days left this year.

Today’s history highlights:

On October 9, 2009, President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “an extraordinary effort to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” did.

This date:

In 1888, public admission to the Washington Monument was allowed for the first time.

In 1910, a coal dust explosion occurred at the Starkville mine in Colorado, killing 56 miners.

In 1936, the first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

In 1946, Eugene O’Neill’s drama “Here Comes the Iceman” opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.

In 1962, Uganda gained autonomy from British rule.

In 1967, 39-year-old Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara was summarily executed by the Bolivian army the day after his capture.

In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov (AHN’-dray SAHK’-ah-rawf) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1985, the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro (ah-KEE’-leh LOW’-roh) surrendered two days after seizing the ship in the Mediterranean and killing passenger Leon Klinghoffer.

Jets bomb a Taliban stronghold in Kandahar in the first daylight raid since the start of the US-led offensive in Afghanistan in 2001.

In 2004, a tour bus from the Chicago area overturned in Arkansas, killing 15 people heading to a casino in Mississippi.

In 2006, Google announced that it would acquire YouTube in a stock transaction for $1.65 billion.

In 2010, 33 trapped miners in Chile cheered and hugged each other as a drill was driven into the basement where they had been trapped for 66 agonizing days.

In 2012, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison after being found guilty of 45 counts of sexual abuse of boys in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. was announced.

In 2018, Taylor Swift earned four honors at the American Music Awards, making her the most decorated woman in the show’s history.

In 2022, veteran reporter Nikki Finke, who became one of Hollywood’s top journalists as the founder of the entertainment industry website Deadline.com, passed away at the age of 68.

Birthdays today: Former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mississippi), 82 years old, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, 82 years old, R&B singer Nona Hendrix, 79 years old, singer Jackson Browne, 75 years old, Nobel Peace Prize winner. actor Jody Williams, 73 years old, and actor Gary Frank, 73 years old. Actor Richard Chavez is 72 years old. Actor Robert Wall is 72 years old. Actor and TV personality Sharon Osbourne is 71 years old. Actor Tony Shalhoub is 70 years old. Actor Scott Bakula is 69 years old. Musician James Fearnley (The Pogues), 69 years old. Actor John O’Hurley is 69 years old. Writer/producer/director/actor Linwood Boomer is 68 years old. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Mike Singletary is 65 years old. Actor Michael Paré is 65 years old. Jazz musician Kenny Garrett is 63 years old. rock singer and musician Kurt Newman (The Bordoans); ) is 62 years old, film director Guillermo del Toro is 59 years old, former British Prime Minister David Cameron is 57 years old, singer PJ Harvey is 54 years old, and film director Steve McQueen (film director Steve McQueen) is 59 years old. ) is 54 years old, and Annika, a player in the World Golf Hall of Fame, is 54 years old. Sorenstam is 53 years old, actor Cocoa Brown is 51, country singer Tommy Shane Steiner is 50, actor Steve Burns is 50, rock singer Sean Lennon is 48, and actor Randy Spelling is 50 years old. is 45 years old, Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae is 44 years old, actor Brandon Routh is 44 years old, actor Zachery Ty Bryan is 42 years old, actor Spencer Grammer is 40 years old, and comedian Melissa Villasenor is 45 years old. He is 36 years old, actor Tyler James Williams is 31 years old, country singer Scottie McCreary (TV drama “American Idol”) is 30 years old, and actor Jharrel Jerome is 26 years old.

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