October 14 Events |
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| October 14th, 1998 (October 14 1998) | Event | Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. | |
| October 14th, 1994 (October 14 1994) | Event | Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize. | Yitzhak Rabin Quotes |
| October 14th, 1982 (October 14 1982) | Event | U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| October 14th, 1981 (October 14 1981) | Event | 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. | |
| October 14th, 1981 (October 14 1981) | Event | Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated. | |
| October 14th, 1979 (October 14 1979) | Event | The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people. | |
| October 14th, 1973 (October 14 1973) | Event | Thailand s University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 injured. | |
| October 14th, 1969 (October 14 1969) | Event | The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | 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. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | 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. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | The rebuilt Euston station in London is opened. | |
| October 14th, 1967 (October 14 1967) | Event | Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California. | Joan Baez Quotes |
| October 14th, 1966 (October 14 1966) | Event | The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro. | |
| October 14th, 1964 (October 14 1964) | Event | Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev. | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| October 14th, 1964 (October 14 1964) | Event | American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| October 14th, 1962 (October 14 1962) | Event | Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. | |
| October 14th, 1958 (October 14 1958) | Event | The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site. | |
| October 14th, 1958 (October 14 1958) | Event | The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members. | |
| October 14th, 1957 (October 14 1957) | Event | Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne. | |
| October 14th, 1949 (October 14 1949) | Event | 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. | |
| October 14th, 1949 (October 14 1949) | Event | Chinese Red Army occupies Canton (Guangzhou). | |
| October 14th, 1947 (October 14 1947) | Event | Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight. | Chuck D Quotes |
| October 14th, 1944 (October 14 1944) | Event | Allied troops land in Corfu. | |
| October 14th, 1943 (October 14 1943) | Event | 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. | |
| October 14th, 1943 (October 14 1943) | Event | U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt. | |
| October 14th, 1942 (October 14 1942) | Event | A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137. | |
| October 14th, 1940 (October 14 1940) | Event | Balham tube disaster during the Blitz. | |
| October 14th, 1939 (October 14 1939) | Event | German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak. | |
| October 14th, 1933 (October 14 1933) | Event | Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations. | |
| October 14th, 1926 (October 14 1926) | Event | The children s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published. | |
| October 14th, 1925 (October 14 1925) | Event | Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee) | |
| October 14th, 1920 (October 14 1920) | Event | Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland. | |
| October 14th, 1916 (October 14 1916) | Event | 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. | Paul Robeson Quotes |
| October 14th, 1916 (October 14 1916) | Event | The Perm State University was founded in Russia. | |
| October 14th, 1913 (October 14 1913) | Event | Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom s worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives. | |
| October 14th, 1912 (October 14 1912) | Event | While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 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. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| October 14th, 1910 (October 14 1910) | Event | English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue) near the White House. | |
| October 14th, 1888 (October 14 1888) | Event | Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. | |
| October 14th, 1884 (October 14 1884) | Event | George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film. | |
| October 14th, 1882 (October 14 1882) | Event | University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan. | |
| October 14th, 1867 (October 14 1867) | Event | The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan. | |
| October 14th, 1863 (October 14 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe StationConfederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia. | |
| October 14th, 1843 (October 14 1843) | Event | The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O Connell for conspiracy. | |
| October 14th, 1840 (October 14 1840) | Event | Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta. | |
| October 14th, 1834 (October 14 1834) | Event | 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. | |
| October 14th, 1812 (October 14 1812) | Event | Work on London s Regent s Canal starts. | |
| October 14th, 1806 (October 14 1806) | Event | Battle of Jena-Auerstadt France defeats Prussia | |
| October 14th, 1805 (October 14 1805) | Event | Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria | |
| October 14th, 1789 (October 14 1789) | Event | George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day. | George Washington Quotes |
| October 14th, 1773 (October 14 1773) | Event | The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland. | |
| October 14th, 1773 (October 14 1773) | Event | American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom s East India Company tea ships cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland. | |
| October 14th, 1758 (October 14 1758) | Event | Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk | |
| October 14th, 1656 (October 14 1656) | Event | 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. | |
| October 14th, 1586 (October 14 1586) | Event | Mary I of Scotland goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England. | Elizabeth I of England Quotes |
| October 14th, 1582 (October 14 1582) | Event | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. | |
| October 14th, 1322 (October 14 1322) | Event | Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland s independence. | |
| October 14th, 1066 (October 14 1066) | Event | Norman Conquest: Battle of HastingsIn 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. | William King Quotes |
