Malala Born: Future Nobel Laureate and Education Champion
She was shot in the head on a school bus at 15 and flew to England for brain surgery. Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Pakistan in 1997 and had been blogging anonymously for BBC Urdu about life under Taliban control in the Swat Valley since she was eleven. The Taliban shot her on October 9, 2012, targeting her specifically. She survived, became a global advocate for girls' education, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at 17 — the youngest laureate in the prize's history. She was studying at Oxford when she won.
July 12, 1997
29 years ago
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