Today in History: October 11, Carter awarded Nobel Peace Prize

At present is Saturday Oct the th day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On Oct former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his and The Carter Center s work to resolve international conflicts and advocate for human rights Also on this date In the San Francisco Board of Coaching ordered the city s Asian students segregated into their own school The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt who in exchange promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States Related Articles AstraZeneca agrees to lower drug prices for Medicaid under Trump administration deal Boston Mayor Michelle Wu firm on safest major city stance after pro-Palestine rally chaos US citizen detained and held at ICE building in Portland for hours before release lawyer says Immigration crackdown stirs unease ahead of this weekend s Chicago Marathon Critically endangered baby black rhino makes its debut at Cleveland zoo In Apollo the first crewed flight of the Apollo campaign was launched with astronauts Walter Schirra Jr Donn F Eisele and R Walter Cunningham aboard In Challenger astronaut Kathryn D Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space as she and fellow Mission Specialist David C Leestma spent hours outside the shuttle In President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev opened two days of talks in Reykjavik Iceland concerning arms control and human rights In the AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights on the National Mall In Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thomas denounced the proceedings as a high-tech lynching and was verified on Oct by a - vote In the Boy Scouts of America stated that it would admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting the following year and establish a new scheme for older girls based on the Boy Scout curriculum In Jon Gruden resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders following reports about messages he wrote years earlier that used offensive terms to refer to Blacks gays and women Gruden later filed a lawsuit still pending against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell alleging a malicious and orchestrated campaign to destroy his career In the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo a Japanese organization of survivors of the U S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II for its activism against nuclear weapons Nowadays s Birthdays Former U S Defense Secretary William Perry is Actor Amitabh Bachchan is Singer Daryl Hall Hall and Oates is Sen Patty Murray D-Washington is Actor David Morse is Football Hall of Famer Steve Young is Actor Joan Cusack is Actor Jane Krakowski is Rapper MC Lyte is Actor Emily Deschanel is Golfer Michelle Wie is Rapper Cardi B is