Today in History: October 9, Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
President Barack Obama makes remarks about being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Today in history:
On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Also on this date:
In 1910, a coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado left 56 miners dead.
In 1962, Uganda won independence from British rule.
A 1963 view of Longarone, Italy, a village that was wiped out on Oct. 9, 1963, when some 260 million cubic meters of rock and mud slid into the lake formed by the Vajont Dam, forming a wave of some 50 million cubic meters of water that topped the dam and swept onto the valley below causing some 2,000 victims. (AP Photo/Files)
A 1963 view of Longarone, Italy, a village that was wiped out on Oct. 9, 1963, when some 260 million cubic meters of rock and mud slid into the lake formed by the Vajont Dam, forming a wave of some 50 million cubic meters of water that topped the dam and swept onto the valley below causing some 2,000 victims. (AP Photo/Files)
In 1963, a mega-tsunami triggered by a landside at Vajont Dam in northern Italy destroyed villages and caused approximately 2,000 deaths.
In 1967, Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture.
Sean Lennon and his mother Yoko Ono are joined by, left to right, Mayor Ed Koch, Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, and Assemblyman Andy Stein at the dedication of Strawberry Fields in memory of John Lennon, Oct. 9, 1985, in Central Park in New York. The man in glasses behind Ms. Ono is unidentified. (AP Photo/G. Paul Burnett)
Sean Lennon and his mother Yoko Ono are joined by, left to right, Mayor Ed Koch, Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, and Assemblyman Andy Stein at the dedication of Strawberry Fields in memory of John Lennon, Oct. 9, 1985, in Central Park in New York. The man in glasses behind Ms. Ono is unidentified. (AP Photo/G. Paul Burnett)
In 1985, Strawberry Fields in New York’s Central Park, a memorial to former Beatle John Lennon, was dedicated.
In 1992, the highly visible Peekskill Meteorite streaked through Earth’s atmosphere for hundreds of miles over the U.S. Northeast before a small chunk of it crashed into the trunk of a parked car in Peekskill, New York. The car, a bright red 1980 Chevrolet Malibu, later went on exhibition at several museums worldwide.
Relatives of trapped miners embrace next to a Chilean flag at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. A drilling rig punched through to the underground site where the 33 miners have been trapped for 66 days under the Chilean desert, raising cheers, tears and hopes. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
Relatives of trapped miners embrace next to a Chilean flag at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. A drilling rig punched through to the underground site where the 33 miners have been trapped for 66 days under the Chilean desert, raising cheers, tears and hopes. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
In 2010, a drill broke through into an underground chamber where 33 Chilean miners had been trapped for more than two months.
In this Oct. 9, 2012 file photo taken with a fisheye lens former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken from the Centre County Courthouse by Centre County Sheriff Denny Nau, left, and a deputy, after being sentenced in Bellefonte, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
In this Oct. 9, 2012 file photo taken with a fisheye lens former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken from the Centre County Courthouse by Centre County Sheriff Denny Nau, left, and a deputy, after being sentenced in Bellefonte, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
In 2012, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, to 30 to 60 years in prison following his conviction on 45 counts of sexual abuse of boys.
