History Today - Oct. 9

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1:04And see why thousands of guys have given them five stars. That's jackarcher.com slash this day for 15% off your first order. Welcome to history today. It's October 9th, and here's a brief look at a few things that happened on this day throughout history. On this day in 2012, 15-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yusufzai and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman. Malala was a vocal opponent against the Taliban's prohibition on girls getting an education and had been a target of the ultra conservative group. Malala and her friends had just taken an exam, and they were on a bus when the gunman opened fire, striking Malala in the head. She survived, started the non-profit Malala fund to continue her advocacy for girls' rights to education. She published a book titled, I Am Malala in 2013, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, becoming the youngest to win a Nobel.

2:04She graduated with a degree from Oxford in 2020, and continues her work advocating for women and girls. On this day in 1936, the Hoover Dam opened providing hydroelectric power to cities in Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada. It was, and still is, an engineering marvel. Construction started in 1931 in an inhospitable part of the country. Engineers first had to divert the Colorado River than the process of pouring concrete began. The amount of concrete used to build the dam would have built a two-lane highway across the country from San Francisco to New York City. It stands 726 feet from foundation to the roadway. The project came at a pretty good time for a lot of men who were out of work due to the Great Depression. At its peak, the project employed 5200 men. 112 died during the planning and construction of the dam. The amount of power generated has been diminishing

3:05due to the falling water level on Lake Mead and the prolonged drought in the region since 2000. On this day in 1974, German businessman Oscar Schindler died at the age of 66. Schindler is credited with saving 1200 Jews from dying in the Holocaust. He was a member of the Nazi party, running an Enamel Works factory in Krakow during the German occupation of Poland and employing workers from the nearby Jewish ghetto. When that ghetto was liquidated, he persuaded Nazi officials to allow the transfer of his workers to a labor camp, saving them from deportation to death camps. When all Jews at the camp were sent to Auschwitz, Schindler bribed officials to let him keep his workers and moved them to a safer location in Czechoslovakia. He was mostly forgotten to history until Steven Spielberg's 1993 movie Schindler's list was released. Following the release of the movie, Israel's National Institution of Holocaust Commemoration

4:08reversed a 30-year-old decision to not honor Schindler bestowing once again the title, Righteous Among the Nations. And on this day in 1919, the Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago White Sox 10-6 to win the World Series, even though rumors swirled before and during this series that it had been fixed with White Sox players colluding with gamblers. It was mostly forgotten until the following August when a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies was thought to have been fixed and a grand jury was brought into investigate. The evidence began to uncover what had happened 10 months before in the World Series. Despite the grand jury returning a verdict of not guilty in June 1921, Major League Baseball's new commissioner, Kenisaw Mountain Land to Span eight Chicago players for life because of their involvement with the Black Sox scandal. That's all for now. Hey, so you've probably noticed a bit of a change here. New name, new logo, more content.

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