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10th December 1901: The first Nobel Prizes awarded

10th December 2020
Tagged as: Discovery, Explosion, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Norway, Science, Sweden, Technology, War

On the 10^th December 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.

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6th October 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat assassinated by terrorists

6th October 2019
Tagged as: Assassination, Begin, Egypt, Israel, Nobel Peace Prize, Revolution, Sadat, Terrorism

On the 6^th October 1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group that was enraged by the peace treaty he had negotiated with Israel.

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10th December 1901: The first Nobel Prizes awarded

6th October 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat assassinated by terrorists

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

18th September 1931: The Manchurian Crisis begins after Japanese forces bomb the South Manchuria Railway

17th September 1859: Joshua Norton declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States

16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins

15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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