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Jehan Sadat
This is a somber anniversary in the Middle East.
40 years ago today, October 6th, 1981, the long time
president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, was assassinated during a military parade.
His killers were extremists who were outraged by his 1979 peace agreement with Israel, for which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
Many other people who were on the parade reviewing stand that day or either killed or injured in the gunfire.
Also on the reviewing stand that day was President Sadat's wife, Egypt's First Lady Jehan Sadat..
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This is a somber anniversary in the Middle East.
40 years ago today, October 6th, 1981, the long time
president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, was assassinated during a military parade.
His killers were extremists who were outraged by his 1979 peace agreement with Israel, for which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
Many other people who were on the parade reviewing stand that day or either killed or injured in the gunfire.
Also on the reviewing stand that day was President Sadat's wife, Egypt's First Lady Jehan Sadat..
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