October 14
October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in
Leap years). There are 78 days remaining.
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Events
\n*1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.\n*1812 - work on London's Regent's Canal starts. \n*1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Bristol Station - Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union army out of Virginia. \n*1912 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech. \n*1926 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is published for the first time. \n*1944 - World War II: Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certain death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chooses the latter. \n*1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight. \n*1960 - US presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps. \n*1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.\n*1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev. \n* 1964 - American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States. \n*1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro). \n*1968 - Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours. \n*1979 - The first gay rights march in the United States takes place in Washington, DC, involving many tens of thousands of people. \n*1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated. \n*1987 - 18 month old Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica") falls down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas (her nationally televised rescue takes 58 hours). \n*1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
Births
- 1630 - Sophia of Hanover\n*1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland\n*1644 - William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)\n*1842 - Joe Start, baseball player (d. 1927)\n*1857 - Elwood Haynes, automobile pioneer\n*1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)\n*1873 - Ray Ewry, American athlete\n*1882 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (d. 1975)\n*1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th president of the United States (d. 1969)\n*1893 - Lillian Gish, actress (d. 1993)\n*1894 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)\n*1904 - Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter\n*1906 - Hannah Arendt, intellectual\n* 1906 - Hassan al Banna, founder of Muslim Brotherhood movement.\n*1908 - Allan Jones, actor, singer (d. 1992)\n*1910 - John Wooden, basketball coach\n*1911 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1990)\n*1914 - Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)\n*1916 - C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General\n*1927 - Roger Moore, actor\n*1930 - Joseph Mobutu, president of Zaire (d. 1997)\n*1935 - La Monte Young, American composer\n*1938 - John W. Dean III, former White House counsel, Watergate figure\n*1938 - Empress Farah Diba of Iran\n*1939 - Ralph Lauren, fashion designer\n*1940 - Cliff Richard, British rock singer\n* 1940 - Perrie Mans, South Africa snooker player\n*1941 - Jerry Glanville, American football coach and commentator\n*1944 - Udo Kier, actor\n*1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist\n*1946 - Justin Hayward, musician ("The Moody Blues")\n*1946 - Demond Wilson, actor ("Sanford and Son")\n*1958 - Thomas Dolby, rock musician\n*1969 - David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)\n*1971 - Jorge Costa, football player\n*1978 - Usher Raymond, singer, actor\n* 1978 - Paul Hunter, English snooker player
Deaths
\n*1066 - Harold Godwinson, king of England\n*1660 - Thomas Harrison, English soldier\n*1911 - John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Court associate justice\n*1944 - Erwin Rommel, German Feldmarschall\n*1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor\n*1976 - Dame Edith Evans, actress\n*1977 - Bing Crosby, American singer, actor\n*1977 - Keenan Wynn, American actor \n*1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor\n*1997 - Harold Robbins, American novelist\n*1998 - Frankie Yankovic, polka musician\n*1998 - Cleveland Amory, writer, animal rights activist\n*2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond
Holidays
\n----\nOctober 13 - October 15 - September 14 - November 14 - more historical anniversaries
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