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Events on Tuesday 6 October 1981 1
1981Assassination of Anwar SadatEgyptian president shot during a military paradeEgyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in Cairo on 6 October 1981 by army officers linked to Islamic Jihad, during a parade marking the anniversary of the 1973 war. The attack was in part retaliation for Sadat's 1979 peace treaty with Israel. Vice President Hosni Mubarak succeeded him as president.