On 6 October 1981, Field Marshal Anwar Sadat, the 3rd President of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. [1]

Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat [a] (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk I in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close …

2009年11月13日 · Islamic extremists assassinate Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt, as he reviews troops on the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Led by Khaled el Islambouli, a lieutenant in the Egyptian army...

2021年10月1日 · Forty years ago, on October 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Islamist terrorists in Cairo.

2025年1月1日 · Anwar Sadat, Egyptian army officer and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981. He oversaw the October War of 1973, implemented the infitah economic program, and achieved a peace treaty with Israel, for which he shared a Nobel Prize for Peace with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

CAIRO, Oct. 6 -- President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt was shot and killed today by a group of men in military uniforms who hurled hand grenades and fired rifles at him as he watched a...

President Sadat of Egypt has died after being shot by gunmen who opened fire as he watched an aerial display at a military parade. A number of other dignitaries including foreign diplomats were...

CAIRO, Oct. 6, 1981 (UPI) -- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated Tuesday by five rebel soldiers who broke away from a military parade and attacked his reviewing stand with...

Just three years after the signing, Sadat was assassinated, on October 6th, 1981, at Egypt’s annual parade, ironically celebrating the October 1973 Yom Kippur War with Israel. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

The assassination of Anwar Sadat on October 6, 1981, marked a watershed moment in Egyptian and Middle Eastern history. His bold attempts at peace and modernization were met with fierce opposition, ultimately leading to his tragic death.