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On this day October 9-15, 2022 (week 41)
October 9, 2022 - October 15, 2022 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features the rights to education for girls, the Panama Canal, Britain’s Jodrell Bank radio telescope, polio, Captain Kirk of Star Trek, the first man to break the sound barrier and the British jet car ThrustSSC.
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October 9, 2012: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, 15, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for campaigning for the rights to education for girls
October 10, 1913: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson detonated explosives enabling the final stretch of the Panama Canal, linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to be cleared
October 11, 1957: Britain’s Jodrell Bank radio telescope, then the largest in the world, went into operation, just in time to track Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite
October 12, 1928: The first use of an “iron lung” took place to treat a young patient suffering from polio. The medical ventilator enabled polio sufferers to breathe more normally
October 13, 2021: William Shatner, 90 – Captain Kirk in the cult classic Star Trek – became the oldest person to fly into space aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket
October 14, 1947: U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1 in the experimental rocket-powered Bell X-1 aircraft
October 15, 1997: The British jet car ThrustSSC broke the sound barrier on land for the first time, averaging 763mph over two runs in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert