In which year was Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt assassinated?

Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat (1918 -1981) was a politician who served in various official positions for Egypt, eventually becoming the 3rd President, serving from 1970 until his assassination in 1981 by fundamentalist Egyptian army officers.

The assassination occurred during a victory parade in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, when the Egyptian Army crossed the Suez Canal and took back a small part of the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War (from October 6 till the 25th in 1973).

Following the Camp David Accords (a political agreement), Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (1913 -1992) shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. The subsequent peace treaty signed the following year was controversial among Arab nations and various jihadist groups. They used the Accords to rally support for Sadat’s assassination.

On October 8, 1981, while Egyptian Air Force Mirage jets flew overhead, distracting the crowd, Army soldiers and troop trucks towing artillery paraded by. One truck contained the assassination squad. They emerged from the truck, approached the stands where Sadat was watching, lobbed two grenades and opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles into the stands, killing Sadat and ten others.

The assassination was undertaken by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, whose primary goal was to overthrow the government and replace it with an Islamic state.