Tuesday, October 11, 2011

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

October 11: 

2002: Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize

On this day in 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, served one term as U.S. president between 1977 and 1981. One of his key achievements as president was mediating the peace talks between Israel and Egypt in 1978. The Nobel Committee had wanted to give Carter (1924- ) the prize that year for his efforts, along with Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin, but was prevented from doing so by a technicality--he had not been nominated by the official deadline.

After he left office, Carter and his wife Rosalynn created the Atlanta-based Carter Center in 1982 to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering. Since 1984, they have worked with Habitat for Humanity to build homes and raise awareness of homelessness. Among his many accomplishments, Carter has helped to fight disease and improve economic growth in developing nations and has served as an observer at numerous political elections around the world.

The first Nobel Prizes--awards established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) in his will--were handed out in Sweden in 1901 in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The Nobel Prize in economics was first awarded in 1969. Carter was the third U.S. president to receive the award, worth $1 million, following Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919). 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter


American Revolution
1776 : Benedict Arnold fights valiantly at Valcour Island
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/benedict-arnold-fights-valiantly-at-valcour-island

Automotive
2008 : Blind driver breaks land-speed record
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/blind-driver-breaks-land-speed-record

Civil War
1862 : Rebels raid Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stuart-hits-pennsylvania

Cold War
1986 : Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-and-gorbachev-meet-in-reykjavik

Crime
1923 : A mail car explodes in a train robbery
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-mail-car-explodes-in-a-train-robbery

Disaster
1793 : Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/yellow-fever-breaks-out-in-philadelphia

General Interest
1776 : Benedict Arnold and the Battle of Valcour Island
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/benedict-arnold-and-the-battle-of-valcour-island
1899 : Boer War begins in South Africa
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/boer-war-begins-in-south-africa
1962 : Pope opens Vatican II
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pope-opens-vatican-ii
1968 : Apollo 7 launched
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/iapollo-7i-launched

Hollywood
1975 : Saturday Night Live debuts
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/saturday-night-live-debuts

Literary
1925 : Elmore Leonard is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/elmore-leonard-is-born

Music
1975 : Bruce Springsteen scores his first pop hit with "Born to Run"
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bruce-springsteen-scores-his-first-pop-hit-with-quotborn-to-runquot

Old West
1809 : Meriwether Lewis dies along the Natchez Trace, Tennessee
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/meriwether-lewis-dies-along-the-natchez-trace-tennessee

Presidential
1975 : Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bill-clinton-marries-hillary-rodham

Sports
2003 : Martinez-Zimmer scuffle interrupts ALCS
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/martinez-zimmer-scuffle-interrupts-alcs

Vietnam War
1954 : Viet Minh take control in the north
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/viet-minh-take-control-in-the-north
1961 : Kennedy ponders the Vietnam situation
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-ponders-the-vietnam-situation

World War I
1915 : Bulgaria enters World War I
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bulgaria-enters-world-war-i

World War II
1942 : United States defeats Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-defeats-japanese-in-the-battle-of-cape-esperance

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