On this day - 5 October
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
Lech Wałęsa wins Nobel Peace Prize
On October 5th 1983 Lech Wałęsa won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work campaigning for free trade unions and human rights in Poland. He did not travel to Norway to collect the prize himself due to fears that he wouldn't be allowed to re-enter Poland on his return. Instead his wife collected the prize for him.
He went on to become the first Polish president to be democratically elected by public vote since 1926 when he became president in 1990.
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