On this day - 9 October
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
Assassination attempt on Malala
Malala Yousafzai is an activist for education of women in her homeland of Swat in Pakistan. In this region, the Pakistani Taliban restricted access to education and banned girls from attending school at times. She became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 aged 17.
On September 9th 2012 she was shot in the head by the Taliban. She was transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham after her condition stabilised. She recovered and then went on to study politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University.
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