Other Notable Events, October 10

In 2001, representatives of 56 Islamic nations, in an emergency meeting at Qatar, condemned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

In 2002, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts toward peace in the Middle East and his commitment to worldwide human rights and democratic values.

In 2003, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Iranian lawyer Shurin Ebadi for her work in promoting democracy and human rights in Iran and beyond. She was the first Muslim woman to win the award.

In 2005, Angela Merkel became the first woman chancellor of Germany after her Christian Democrats won the parliamentary election.

In 2008, Connecticut became the third state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriages, following California and Massachusetts.

In 2009, with nudging from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, officials from Armenia and Turkey agreed to establish diplomatic ties between the two countries, including the opening of the common border closed since 1993.

Also in 2009, NASA deliberately crashed a hunk of space junk on the surface of the moon to check whether certain lunar craters held significant deposits of water.

In 2010, Hungarian officials evacuated the village of Kolontar amid fears of a second spill of deadly toxic sludge at an aluminum processing plant where at least seven people died when a reservoir failure dumped nearly 25 million cubic feet of chemicals.

In 2011, the National League Basketball Association, caught up in a stalemated contract dispute, postponed the first two weeks of the season, set to open Nov. 1, then canceled the entire November schedule and followed with a 2-month player lockout until an agreement was reached enabling a reduced season, 66 games trimmed from 82, beginning on Christmas Day.

Also in 2011, the Coptic Christian Church accused Egyptian officials of allowing crimes against Copts to go unpunished. The Cairo charge followed a rush of violence that left at least 24 people dead.