On this day: October 14th

On this day: October 14th

There are many events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: October 14th

On this day: October 14th

Events On this day: October 14th

• 1066: The Norman Conquest began with the Battle of Hastings, in which King Harold II of England, the last of the Saxon kings, was defeated and killed by William of Normandy’s troops.
• 1912: President Theodore Roosevelt is shot. He still delivers his speech with the bullet still inside him.
• 1913: Senghenydd Colliery Disaster. In what is considered to be one of the worst mine disasters in recorded history, 440 people were killed when an explosion ripped through the Senghenydd coal mine in Wales.
• 1926: The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh is first published.
• 1933: Nazi Germany announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations and stated it would take no further part in the Geneva Disarmament Conference.
• 1947: Chuck Yeager pilots the first level flight faster than the speed of sound.
• 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when photos are taken of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed in Cuba.
• 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1968: James Hines is the first man to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters
• 1984: Joseph Kittinger Starts on his Solo Gas Balloon Flight Across the Atlantic. 4 days later, on September 18, Kittinger became the first person to traverse the Atlantic in a balloon called the Balloon of Peace. As a member of the US Armed Forces, Kittinger jumped from a height of 102,800 feet on August 16, 1960, becoming the first person in ever to jump from that height.

• 1994: Two Israelis and a Palestinian Share the Nobel Peace Prize. The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, shared the Nobel Peace Prize, which is annually awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee based in Oslo, with the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Yasser Arafat. The Award was given out to the two parties for their efforts and work on the Oslo Accords, a series of agreements between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel. The Accords created the Palestinian Authority and made it the official governing body to interact with Israel on issues that effect the lives of Palestinians in Israel.

Birthdays on this day: October 14th

• 1542: Akbar (Mughal emperor)
• 1644: William Penn (Founder of Pennsylvania)
• 1890: Dwight D Eisenhower (34th US President)
• 1906: Hannah Arendt (German/American theorist, philosopher)
• 1910: John Wooden (UCLA Basketball Coach)
• 1927: Roger Moore (Actor: James Bond)
• 1930: Mobutu Sese Seko (Congolese politician, President of Zaire)
• 1939: Ralph Lauren (Fashion Designer)
• 1978: Usher (Singer)

Deaths On this day: October 14th

• 1092: Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated
• 1256: Kujō Yoritsugu, 5th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, dies at 16
• 1536: Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet and diplomat, dies in battle (b. 1498–1503)
• 1552: Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
• 1565: Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
• 1568: Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
• 1570: Floris van Montmorency, baron of Montigny, dies at 43
• 1610: Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
• 1619: Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
• 1631: Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Queen of Denmark and Norway, dies at 74
• 1637: Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet, dies at 86
• 1660: Francesco Albana, Italian painter (tales of Venus), dies at 72
• 1660: Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
• 1669: Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, singer and musician, dies at 46
• 1703: Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
• 1711: Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)
• 1719: Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer, dies at 59
• 1746: François Fagel, Dutch statesman and collector (coins and medals), dies at 86
• 1758: Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal, dies at 62
• 1847: William Michael Rooke, composer, dies at 53
• 1857: Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, Polish composer, dies of tuberculosis at 33
• 1872: Prince Albert of Prussia, Prussian colonel general, dies at 63
• 1880: Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army
• 1895: Elisha P. Ferry, American politician (Governor of Washington, 1872-80, 1889-93), dies at 70
• 1900: Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter and etcher, dies at 56
• 1900: Sandor Erkel, Hungarian composer and son of Ferenc Erkel, dies at 54
• 1909: Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, Danish composer, dies at 76
• 1911: John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1877-1911), dies at 78
• 1919: Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist/son of Werner, dies
• 1923: George Elbridge Whiting, American composer, dies at 83
• 1923: Marcellus Emants, Dutch writer and poet (Refrained from Confession), dies at 75
• 1925: Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer, dies at 58
• 1930: Samuel van Houten, Dutch politician and philosopher (Child labor laws), dies at 93
• 1943: Jimmy Matthews, Australian cricket spin bowler (8 Tests, 16 wickets; Victoria; only player to take 2 hat-tricks in same Test, 1912), dies at 59

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