Today in History Today is Sunday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2022. There are 83 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” On this date: In 1888, the public was first admitted to the Washington Monument. In 1910, a coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado left 56 miners dead. In 1936, the first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. In 1946, the Eugene O’Neill drama “The Iceman Cometh” opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York. In 1962, Uganda won autonomy from British rule. In 1967, Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was summarily executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture. In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov (AHN’-dray SAHK’-ah-rawf) was awarded...
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