Friday, October 07, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 7
2001:In response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States leads a coalition of nations in the invasion of Afghanistan. "Operation Enduring Freedom" targets Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, as well as the fundamentalist Taliban regime.

1993: Toni Morrison becomes the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, for novels "characterized by visionary force and poetic import."

1998: Gay college student Matthew Shepard is beaten and tied to a wooden fence near Laramie, Wyo. He dies five days later. Shepard was fatally attacked by Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, who are currently serving life sentences in prison.

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