On this day in 1981, Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt, was assassinated during a military parade. It all happened so fast that many thought that the soldiers jumping from the truck were part of the show. Within seconds, it became clear that it was a terrorist attack against a head of state.
President Sadat and PM Begin of Israel won the Nobel Peace Prize for the Camp David accords of 1978. Unfortunately, the deal made him a target of Islamic extremists across the Middle East.
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