October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year.
1066 - Norman Conquest : Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings , the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England .
1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland , forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy , Poland , Portugal and Spain .
1586 - Mary I of Scotland goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England .
1656 - Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1758 - Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk
1773 - The first recorded Ministry of Education , the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education ), is formed in Poland.
1773 - American Revolutionary War : The United Kingdom 's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis .
1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day .
1806 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia
1812 - Work on London 's Regent's Canal starts.
1834 - In Philadelphia , Whigs and Democrats stage 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.
1834 - Henry Blair is the first African American to obtain a US patent. The patent was for a corn planter.
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 .
1843 - The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.
1863 - American Civil War : Battle of Bristoe Station - Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia .
1867 - The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan .
1882 - University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan .
1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
1888 - Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene .
1910 - English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue ) near the White House .
1912 - While campaigning in Milwaukee , former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank . With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
1913 - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster , the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives.
1914 - German troops occupy Bruges .
1916 - Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.
1920 - Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland .
1925 - Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
1926 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh , by A.A. Milne , is first published.
1933 - Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations .
1939 - German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak .
1942 - A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou , killing 137.
1942 - Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field .
1943 - Japan declares Philippine Independence.
1943 - Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camp's 600 prisoners escape; about 50 survive the war.
1943 - U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt .
1944 - Allied troops land in Corfu .
1944 - British troops march into Athens .
1946 - Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire.
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 are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.
1949 - Chinese Red Army occupies Canton (Guangzhou ).
1958 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site .
1958 - The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
1963 - The term "Beatlemania " is coined by the British press to describe the scene at the previous night's performance by The Beatles on the TV show Val Parnell 's Sunday Night at the London Palladium .
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 becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize .
1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro .
1967 - Vietnam War : Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland .
1968 - Vietnam War : 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War .
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.
1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7 .
1968 - A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering , and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby.
1968 - Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983 .
1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence ) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971 .
1973 - Thailand 's University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 injured.
1979 - The first Gay Rights March on Washington demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people.
1981 - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges 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.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs .
1994 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat , Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin , and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize .
1996 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to 6,010.00, closing above 6,000 for the first time ever .
1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta .
1257 - King Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296 )
1404 - Marie of Anjou , queen of France (d. 1463 )
1493 - Shimazu Tadayoshi , Japanese warlord (d. 1568 )
1499 - Claude of France , wife of Louis XII of France (d. 1524 )
1630 - Sophia of Hanover , Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714 )
1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701 )
1643 - Bahadur Shah I , Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712 )
1644 - William Penn , English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718 )
1687 - Robert Simson , Scottish mathematician (d. 1768 )
1712 - George Grenville , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770 )
1726 - Charles Middleton , English sailor and politician (d. 1813 )
1733 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix , Austrian field marshal (d. 1798 )
1784 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833 )
1801 - Joseph Plateau , Belgian physicist (d. 1883 )
1806 - Preston King , U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865 )
1842 - Joe Start , American baseball player (d. 1927 )
1861 - Artur Gavazzi , Croatian geographer (d. 1944 )
1869 - Joseph Duveen , British art dealer (d. 1939 )
1873 - Ray Ewry , American athlete (d. 1937 )
1873 - Jules Rimet , president of FIFA (d. 1954 )
1882 - Eamon de Valera , Irish politician and patriot (d. 1975 )
1882 - Charlie Parker , English cricketer (d. 1959 )
1888 - Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand writer (d. 1923 )
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower , U.S. general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969 )
1892 - Sumner Welles , American diplomat (d. 1961 )
1893 - Lillian Gish , American actress (d. 1993 )
1894 - E. E. Cummings , American poet (d. 1962 )
1900 - Agustín Lara , Mexican composer (d. 1970 )
1902 - Learco Guerra , Italian cyclist (d. 1963 )
1904 - Christian Pineau , French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995 )
1906 - Hannah Arendt , German political theorist and writer (d. 1975 )
1906 - Imam Hassan al Banna , Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949 )
1908 - Ruth Hale , American playwright and actress (d. 2003 )
1908 - Allan Jones , American actor and singer (d. 1992 )
1909 - Bernd Rosemeyer , German racecar driver (d. 1938 )
1909 - Dorothy Kingsley , American screenwriter (d. 1996 )
1910 - John Wooden , American basketball player and coach
1911 - Le Duc Tho , Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990 )
1914 - Raymond Davis Jr. , American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006 )
1914 - Dick Durrance , American skier (d. 2004 )
1914 - Harry Brecheen , American baseball player (d. 2004 )
1916 - C. Everett Koop , United States Surgeon General
1918 - Marcel Chaput , French Canadian politician (d. 1991 )
1926 - Bill Justis , American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982 )
1927 - Roger Moore , English actor
1928 - Frank E. Resnik , American business executive (d. 1995 )
1929 - Yvon Durelle , Canadian boxer (d. 2007 )
1930 - Mobutu Sese Seko , President of Zaire (d. 1997 )
1931 - Nikhil Banerjee , Indian classical musician (d. 1986 )
1932 - Anatoly Larkin , Russian-American physicist (d. 2005 )
1932 - Enrico di Giuseppe , American tenor (d. 2005 )
1935 - La Monte Young , American composer
1938 - John W. Dean III , Watergate figure
1938 - Empress Farah Diba of Iran
1938 - Ron Lancaster , American-born Canadian football player and coach
1939 - Ralph Lauren , American fashion designer
1939 - Rocky Thompson , American golfer
1940 - Perrie Mans , South African snooker player
1940 - Cliff Richard , English singer
1940 - Christopher Timothy , British actor
1941 - Art Shamsky , American baseball player
1942 - Evelio Javier , Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (d. 1986 )
1944 - Udo Kier , German actor
1945 - Colin Hodgkinson , English musician (Whitesnake )
1946 - Justin Hayward , English musician (Moody Blues )
1946 - James Robert "Radio" Kennedy , American football coach
1946 - Craig Venter , American biologist
1946 - Al Oliver , American baseball player
1946 - Dan McCafferty , Scottish musician (Nazareth )
1947 - Lukas Resetarits , Austrian cabaret artist
1948 - Harry Anderson , American actor
1948 - David Ruprecht , American game show host
1949 - Katy Manning , English/Australian actress
1949 - Katha Pollitt , American writer
1952 - Nikolai Andrianov , Soviet gymnast
1953 - Shelley Ackerman , American astrologer, writer, singer
1954 - Carole Malone , English newspaper columnist
1957 - Michel Després , Quebec politician
1958 - Thomas Dolby , English musician
1960 - Steve Cram , English athlete
1961 - Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer
1962 - Jaan Ehlvest , Estonian chess player
1963 - Yim Jae-beom , South Korean singer
1963 - Lori Petty , American actress
1964 - Olu Oguibe , American artist
1964 - Joe Girardi , American baseball player
1964 - Jim Rome , American sport talk show host
1965 - Jüri Jaanson , Estonian rower
1965 - Constantine Koukias , Australian composer
1965 - Steve Coogan , English actor
1965 - Karyn White , American singer
1967 - Pat Kelly , American baseball player
1967 - Sylvain Lefebvre , Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Stephen A. Smith , American sports journalist
1968 - Matthew Le Tissier , English footballer
1968 - Johnny Goudie , American musician
1969 - David Strickland , American actor (d. 1999 )
1969 - P.J. Brown , American basketball player
1970 - Jim Jackson , American basketball player
1970 - Daniela Peštová , Czech supermodel
1970 - Jon Seda , Puerto Rican actor
1971 - Jorge Costa , Portuguese footballer
1971 - Antonios Nikopolidis , Greek footballer
1974 - Natalie Maines , American musician (Dixie Chicks )
1974 - Jessica Drake , American porn star
1974 - Joseph Utsler , American musician
1975 - Floyd Landis , American cyclist
1975 - Shaznay Lewis , English singer (All Saints )
1976 - Nataša Kejžar , Slovenian swimmer
1976 - Henry Mateo , Dominican baseball player
1976 - Ben Pridmore , World Memory Champion
1977 - Kelly Schumacher , Canadian basketball player
1977 - Bianca Beauchamp , adult model
1977 - Jonathan Kerrigan , English actor
1978 - Justin Brannan , American musician, writer
1978 - Ryan Church , American baseball player
1978 - Paul Hunter , English snooker player (d. 2006 )
1978 - Usher , American singer and actor
1978 - Javon Walker , American football player
1979 - Stacy Keibler , American actress / ex-professional wrestler
1980 - Terrence McGee , American football player
1980 - Paul Ambrosi , Ecuadorian footballer
1981 - Boof Bonser , American baseball player
1983 - Vanessa Lane , American porn star
1984 - LaRon Landry , American football player
1985 - Digão , Brazilian footballer
1985 - Daniel Clark , Canadian actor
1985 - Sherlyn González , Mexican actress
1985 - Alexandre Sarnes Negrão , Brazilian racing driver
1986 - Tom Craddock , English footballer
1986 - Skyler Shaye , American actress
1988 - MacKenzie Mauzy , American actress
1988 - Max Thieriot , American actor
1066 - Harold Godwinson , King of England
1092 - Nizam al-Mulk , Persian vizier (b. 1018 )
1256 - Kujo Yoritsugu , Japanese shogun (b. 1239 )
1318 - Edward Bruce , High King of Ireland
1552 - Oswald Myconius , Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488 )
1565 - Thomas Chaloner , English statesman and poet (b. 1521 )
1568 - Jacques Arcadelt , Flemish composer
1610 - Amago Yoshihisa , Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540 )
1619 - Samuel Daniel , English poet (b. 1562 )
1637 - Gabriello Chiabrera , Italian poet (b. 1552 )
1660 - Thomas Harrison , English Puritan soldier (b. 1606 )
1669 - Antonio Cesti , Italian composer (b. 1623 )
1703 - Thomas Hansen Kingo , Danish poet (b. 1634 )
1711 - Tewoflos , Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708 )
1758 - Francis Edward James Keith , Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696 )
1831 - Jean-Louis Pons , French astronomer (b. 1761 )
1911 - John Marshall Harlan , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833 )
1944 - Erwin Rommel , German field marshall (b. 1891 )
1958 - Douglas Mawson , Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882 )
1959 - Errol Flynn , Australian actor (b. 1909 )
1960 - Abram Ioffe , Russian physicist (b. 1880 )
1961 - Paul Ramadier , French politician (b. 1888 )
1961 - Harriet Shaw Weaver , English political activist (b. 1876 )
1967 - Marcel Aymé , French novelist and playwright (b. 1902 )
1973 - Edmund A. Chester , American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897 )
1976 - Dame Edith Evans , English actress (b. 1888 )
1977 - Bing Crosby , American singer and actor (b. 1903 )
1983 - Willard Price , Canadian author and naturalist
1984 - Martin Ryle , English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918 )
1985 - Emil Gilels , Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916 )
1986 - Keenan Wynn , American actor (b. 1916 )
1990 - Leonard Bernstein , American composer and conductor (b. 1918 )
1997 - Harold Robbins , American novelist (b. 1915 )
1998 - Cleveland Amory , American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917 )
1998 - Frankie Yankovic , American musician (b. 1916 )
1999 - Julius Nyerere , Tanzanian politician (b. 1922 )
2002 - Norbert Schultze , American composer and songwriter (Lili Marleen ) (b. 1911 )
2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job , English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913 )
2005 - Jody Dobrowski , English murder victim (b. 1981 )
2006 - Freddy Fender , American musician (b. 1937 )
2006 - Jared Anderson , American death metal bassist (b. 1975 )
2006 - Gerry Studds , Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts (b. 1937 )
2006 - Maurice Grosse , British paranormal investigator (b. 1919 )
2007 - Big Moe , American Rapper (b. 1974 )
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