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What Happened on October 14th This Day in History

Year Name
2021 About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike.
2017 A massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others.
2015 A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
2014 A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
2014 The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.
2012 Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.
2004 MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board.
2004 Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.
2003 The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
1998 Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
1994 Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1982 U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1980 The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il-sung's son Kim Jong-il as his successor.[11]
1979 The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
1975 An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.
1973 In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1968 Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
1968 The 6.5 Mw  Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
1968 Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1966 The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
1964 Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
1964 The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.
1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
1957 The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.
1957 At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
1956 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1952 Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1949 The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
1947 Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
1943 World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.
1943 World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
1943 World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
1940 World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
1939 World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
1930 The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.[8]
1923 After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial.
1920 Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.
1915 World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
1913 Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.
1912 Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
1910 English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
1908 The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.
1898 The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
1888 Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
1884 George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1863 American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
1843 Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy.
1808 The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1806 War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
1805 War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm.
1774 American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.
1773 The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1758 Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.
1656 The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.
1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1066 The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.
Famous People Born on October 14

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Year Name
1609 Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1689)
1970 Meelis Lindmaa, Estonian footballer
1955 Arleen Sorkin, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1930 Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist (d. 2020)
1633 James II of England (d. 1701)
1978 Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist and songwriter, and politician
1938 Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran
1942 Suzzanna, Indonesian actress (d. 2008)
1985 Alanna Nihell, Irish boxer
1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
Famous People Deaths On October 14

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Date Name
1565 Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (b. 1521)
1943 Sobibór uprising:
1066 Battle of Hastings:
1982 Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1889)
1977 Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1903)
1911 John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
2006 Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
2010 Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952)
1983 Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
1976 Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)