"Give Peace a Chance" is the seventh episode of the sixth season of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and the show's 109th episode overall. Written by Peter Nowalk and directed by Chandra Wilson, the episode was originally broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States on October 29, 2009. Grey's Anatomy centers around a group of young doctors in training. In this episode, Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey, pictured) performs an operation on a hospital technician's "inoperable" tumor, despite the objections of the chief of surgery, Dr. Richard Webber (James Pickens, Jr.). The episode was designed to revolve around Dempsey's character. Mark Saul, Jesse Williams, and Nora Zehetner returned as guest stars, while Faran Tahir made his first and only appearance. Viewed by 13.74 million people, "Give Peace a Chance" won Wilson an NAACP Image Award for directing, and was generally well received among critics.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1618:
English courtier and explorer Walter Raleigh was executed in London after King James I reinstated a fifteen-year-old death sentence against him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh
1923:
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first President of Turkey, a new nation founded from remnants of the Ottoman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
1948:
Arab-Israeli War: As the Israel Defense Forces captured the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf, they massacred at least 52 villagers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safsaf_massacre
1969:
A student at UCLA sent the first message on the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, to a computer at Stanford Research Institute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
1998:
Hurricane Mitch made landfall, whereupon it dropped up to 1,900 mm (75 in) of rain, causing flooding that killed over 11,000 people in Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Mitch
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peri-urban: Immediately adjoining an urban area; between the suburbs and the countryside. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peri-urban
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is a certain nobility and dignity in combat soldiers and medical aid men with dirt in their ears. They are rough and their language gets coarse because they live a life stripped of convention and niceties. Their nobility and dignity come from the way they live unselfishly and risk their lives to help each other. --Bill Mauldin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Mauldin