Saturday, October 09, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 9
1975:Andrei Sakharov, one of the physicists responsible for the creation of the Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his later human rights activism and critique of the arms race. He is not permitted to leave the Soviet Union to receive his award in Oslo, Norway.

1635: Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for questioning the right of the colony to punish religious dissenters and seize Native American land. He later founds a settlement in present-day Rhode Island open to people of all religious beliefs, naming it "Providence" because he believed God's support had led to the venture.

1967: Guerrilla leader and socialist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed after being captured by Bolivian armed forces near the jungle village of La Higuera, where he was working to bring about a revolution in the country.

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