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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