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Friday, 11 October 2013

October 11, 2013 (Current Affairs)



2013 Noble Prize

Peace prize 
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) won Noble Peace Prize 2013
The Norweign Noble Committee has awarded  the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013 to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.

Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 2nd American to orbit the earth dies

Carpenter made only one spaceflight, taking the Aurora 7 spacecraft on three laps around Earth on May 24, 1962, a few weeks after his 37th birthday. It was a flight of less than five hours and made him the fourth American in space and the second, after Glenn, to orbit Earth.

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