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Arts

2012 Ellen DeGeneres presented with the Mark Twain Prize, American comedy's top honor.

2013 Fun Home, a musical theatre adaptation of Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, opens off-Broadway. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The original Broadway production, in 2015, was nominated for 12 Tonys and won 5, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical (Kron) and Best Original Score (Tesori and Kron).

Crime

2007 The "honour killing" of Sadia Sheikh occurred on 22 October 2007, when a 20-year-old Belgian woman of Pakistani heritage was fatally shot by her brother. The murder occurred in Lodelinsart, Charleroi. Sheikh had left her family home after her parents pressured her to marry a cousin who she had never met, later moving in with a Belgian man, but had visited to try to make peace. Her brother confessed to the murder in a 2011 trial, claiming that he had acted alone, but a jury pronounced all four members of the family guilty of the murder and sentenced each to prison. The case has been called Belgium's first honour killing trial.

Sports

1978 Grete Waitz sets a women's world record at the New York City Marathon, clocking in at 2 hours, 32 minutes and 30 seconds, one of nine times she won the New York City Marathon.