October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years). There are 78 days remaining.

Events

• 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.
• 1651 - Laws were passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.
• 1656 - Massachusetts enacted the first punitive legislation against Quakers. The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism made them regard the ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
• 1773 - Revolutionary War: Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo was burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
• 1806 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt
• 1812 - A digest of Pennsylvania laws could not bring itself to print the word "buggery." It was printed as "B_GG__Y."
• 1812 - Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
• 1834 - In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats staged a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries and the burning down of a block of buildings.
• 1835 - John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.
• 1840 - Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Bristol Station - Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.
• 1865 - Cheyennes and Arapahos signed a treaty with the U.S. at a camp on the Little Arkansas River in Kansas. However, none of the parties to the treaty abided by it.
• 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.
• 1913 - The New Mexico Supreme Court upheld a sodomy conviction. Ex Parte DeVore, 136 P. 47.
• 1916 - Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson was excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee Universities refused to play against a black person.
• 1926 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is published for the first time.
• 1927 - The California Court of Appeals, in upholding a sodomy conviction, ruled that corroborative evidence could be circumstantial in nature. People v. Khan, 115 260 P. 391.
• 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.
• 1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
• 1949 - Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party were convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Ten defendants were sentenced to 5 years in prison each, and the eleventh to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions on June 4, 1951.
• 1953 - Ike promised to fire as a Red any federal worker invoking the 5th Amendment.
• 1953 - Qibya massacre was carried out by Israeli troops in a West Bank village.
• 1958 - The Anshai Emath Reform Jewish Temple in Peoria, Illinois was damaged by a crude bomb.
• 1958 - The U.S. conducted an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1958 - The District of Columbia Bar Association voted to accept black Americans as members.
• 1960 - US presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
• 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev.
• 1964 - American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro).
• 1967 - Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez was arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.
• 1968 - Vietnam War: 27 soldiers were arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Viet Nam War. Charged with mutiny, their long prison sentences were later reduced to two years.
• 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.
• 1969 - A race riot occurred in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1970 - The U.S. conducted an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1971 - Two people were killed in a Memphis, Tennessee race riot.
• 1971 - The U.S. conducted an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1979 - The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demanded "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people." It drew 200,000 people.
• 1981 - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charged the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
• 1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
• 1985 - U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese said in U.S. News & World Report, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."
• 1987 - 18 month old Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica") falls down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas (her nationally televised rescue takes 58 hours).
• 1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1999 - The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the video poker machines in the state must be unplugged by June 30, 2000.
• 2001 - Delta Flight 458 from Atlanta to Newark, New Jersey, was diverted to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and passengers were taken off the flight while officials investigated a report of two "Middle Eastern men" making threats in a foreign tongue. It turned out to be two Orthodox Jews who were peacefully praying.

Births

• 1257 - King Przemysl II of Poland
• 1493 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (d. 1568)
• 1630 - Sophia of Hanover
• 1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland
• 1644 - William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
• 1773 - Commission of National Education (Polish Komisja Edukacji Narodowej) formed in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is considered to be the first ministry of education in the history of mankind
• 1842 - Joe Start, baseball player (d. 1927)
• 1857 - Elwood Haynes, automobile pioneer
• 1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
• 1873 - Ray Ewry, American athlete
• 1882 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (d. 1975)
• 1882 - Charlie Parker, Prestbury, Gloucestershire left arm spin bowler and third highest first class wicket taker (d. 1959)
• 1888 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)
• 1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th president of the United States (d. 1969)
• 1893 - Lillian Gish, actress (d. 1993)
• 1894 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
• 1904 - Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter
• 1906 - Hannah Arendt, intellectual (d. 1975)
• 1906 - Hassan al Banna, founder of Muslim Brotherhood movement.
• 1908 - Allan Jones, actor, singer (d. 1992)
• 1910 - John Wooden, basketball coach
• 1911 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1990)
• 1914 - Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
• 1916 - C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General
• 1927 - Roger Moore, actor
• 1930 - Joseph Mobutu, president of Zaire (d. 1997)
• 1935 - La Monte Young, American composer
• 1938 - John W. Dean III, former White House counsel, Watergate figure
• 1938 - Empress Farah Diba of Iran
• 1939 - Ralph Lauren, fashion designer
• 1940 - Perrie Mans, South Africa snooker player
• 1940 - Cliff Richard, British rock singer
• 1941 - Jerry Glanville, American football coach and commentator
• 1944 - Udo Kier, German actor
• 1946 - Justin Hayward, musician ("The Moody Blues")
• 1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist
• 1946 - Demond Wilson, actor ("Sanford and Son")
• 1952 - Harry Anderson, actor ("Night Court")
• 1958 - Thomas Dolby, rock musician
• 1969 - David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1970 - Mihailo Rsumovic, Yugoslavian animator and comics artist
• 1971 - Jorge Costa, football player
• 1978 - Paul Hunter, English snooker player
• 1978 - Usher Raymond, singer, actor
• 1980 - Terrence McGee, American football player

Deaths

• 1066 - Harold Godwinson, king of England
• 1610 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
• 1660 - Thomas Harrison, English soldier
• 1895 - Eugene Vanoy, a Black man, was lynched for "keeping a white woman" in Manchester, Tennessee.
• 1911 - John Marshall Harlan, American Supreme Court associate justice
• 1944 - Erwin Rommel, German Feldmarschall
• 1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor
• 1976 - Dame Edith Evans, actress
• 1977 - Bing Crosby, American singer, actor
• 1977 - Keenan Wynn, American actor
• 1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor
• 1994 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
• 1995 - 9-year-old Steven Wilson of Middletown, Delaware, harassed by other kids as being "gay", was murdered.
• 1997 - Harold Robbins, American novelist
• 1998 - Frankie Yankovic, polka musician
• 1998 - Cleveland Amory, writer, animal rights activist
• 2001 - Ali W. Ali was beaten unconscious while waiting at a bus stop in Minneapolis. He later died in the hospital from head injuries. His son believes the assault was the result of an article written the night before in The Minneapolis Star Tribune which reported that local Somalis may have inadvertently donated to an organization now linked to Osama bin Laden.
• 2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond

Holidays

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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