Notable Historical Events on October 14th
October 14th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
530 |
Discorus ends his reign as Catholic anti-Pope |
1066 |
Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy and Norman army defeat English forces of Harold II |
1322 |
Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence |
1468 |
Treaty of Peronne: Duke Charles the Stoute & French King Louis XI |
1492 |
Columbus leaves San Salvador; arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion (Bahamas) |
1529 |
Sultan Suleiman II ceases Vienna |
1586 |
Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth |
1700 |
Rabbi Judah Hasid & Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem |
1745 |
French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland |
1758 |
Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia |
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, Maryland. |
1774 |
1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia |
1805 |
Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria |
1806 |
Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians |
1812 |
Work on London's Regent's Canal starts. |
1834 |
First black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter |
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. |
1840 |
Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta. |
1843 |
British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy |
1862 |
Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18 |
1862 |
Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9 |
1863 |
Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties) |
1863 |
Skirmish at Catlett's Station, Virginia (Bristoe Campaign) |
1865 |
Cheyennes & Arapahos sign "peace treaty" then chased out Colorado |
1867 |
15th & last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan |
1882 |
University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan. |
1884 |
George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film |
1893 |
George Edwarde's "Gaiety Girl" premieres in London |
1893 |
Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret |
1899 |
Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa |
1901 |
Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King" premieres in NYC |
1905 |
NY Giants beats Phila A's, 4 games to 1 in 2nd World Series |
1905 |
Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight World Series shutout |
1906 |
All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series |
1908 |
Baseball Writers Association of America forms |
1908 |
Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series, 1st rematch |
1908 |
Smallest crowd at World Series, 6,210 fans see Cubs beat Tigers |
1909 |
Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series |
1911 |
Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379) |
1912 |
Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee |
1912 |
Cretan representatives are admitted to the Greek assembly; in doing so the Greek Government challenges the Turkish Government |
1913 |
Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, an explosion claims 439 lives. |
1914 |
German troops occupy Brug |
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. |
1916 |
The Perm State University was founded in Russia. |
1920 |
Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland |
1922 |
1st Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue NYC |
1922 |
1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC |
1924 |
Arnold Schoeberg's opera "Die Gluckliche Hand" premieres in Vienna |
1925 |
Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee) |
1926 |
AA Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" released |
1926 |
Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark |
1929 |
Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series |
1929 |
Philadelphia A's set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning |
1930 |
Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy" |
1930 |
George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC |
1931 |
1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University |
1931 |
Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church & State |
1933 |
Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations |
1934 |
"Lux Radio Theatre" premieres |
1938 |
Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities |
1939 |
BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed |
1939 |
German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed |
1939 |
Sugar rationed in Netherlands |
1940 |
Balham tube disaster during the Blitz. |
1941 |
1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga |
1942 |
Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution |
1942 |
German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed |
1942 |
Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal |
1943 |
400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland |
1943 |
Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/pres Jose Laurel) |
1943 |
Outbreak attempt in Sobibor concentration camp |
1943 |
US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt |
1944 |
Allied troops land in Corfu |
1944 |
British troops march into Athens |
1945 |
Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears |
1946 |
Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire |
1947 |
Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015) |
1947 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower |
1948 |
Batavia lt-governor-general van Mook dismissed |
1948 |
Large scale fighting between Israel & Egypt |
1949 |
14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition |
1949 |
Chinese Red army occupies Canton |
1949 |
Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
1950 |
Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison |
1951 |
Det Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs LA Rams |
1951 |
Organization of Central American States forms |
1952 |
"Buttrio Square" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances |
1953 |
1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service |
1953 |
Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die |
1953 |
Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr |
1953 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia |
1953 |
Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment |
1953 |
WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53 |
1956 |
Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning" premieres in NYC |
1956 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open |
1957 |
Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1 |
1957 |
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne. |
1958 |
Brendan Behan's "Hostage" premieres in London |
1958 |
Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
1958 |
Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong" premieres in NYC |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members. |
1959 |
WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen |
1960 |
Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK |
1961 |
"How to Succeed in Business" opens at 46th St NYC for 1415 perfs |
1961 |
14th Ryder Cup: US wins, 14½-9½ at Royal Lytham & St Annes, England |
1962 |
Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17 |
1962 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament |
1962 |
US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1963 |
Algeria & Morocco border conflict |
1963 |
WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins |
1964 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize |
1964 |
Martin Walser's "Der Schwarze Schwan," premieres in Stuttgart |
1964 |
Philips begins experimenting with color TV |
1964 |
Roger Maris & Mickey Mantle hit HRs runs on back-to-back pitches |
1964 |
Leonid Brezhnev & Alexei Kosygin replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev |
1965 |
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km |
1965 |
Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0 |
1966 |
175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
1966 |
Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer |
1968 |
1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7) |
1968 |
Beatles "White Album" completed |
1968 |
Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas |
1968 |
In NL expansion draft, Expos & Padres choose 30 players each |
1968 |
J R Hines of US runs 100m in world record 9.95 sec |
1968 |
A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby. |
1968 |
The rebuilt Euston railway station in London is opened. |
1969 |
Palme government forms in Sweden |
1969 |
Race riots in Springfield Mass |
1969 |
T Agee & Ed Kranepool HR, Tommie Agee makes 2 great catches, Mets win Baseball World Series 5-0 |
1969 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1969 |
The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971. |
1970 |
4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins |
1970 |
Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92 |
1970 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1971 |
2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances |
1971 |
John & Yoko appear on "Dick Cavett Show" |
1972 |
Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats |
1972 |
North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition |
1973 |
Egyptian tanks move further into Israel |
1973 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic |
1973 |
Willie Mays last hit, as Mets beat A's in World Series game 2 A's Mike Andrews makes 2 errors, prompting owner Finley to remove him |
1974 |
8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich |
1975 |
Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside |
1976 |
Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30 |
1976 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman |
1976 |
Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking |
1977 |
Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series |
1977 |
Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro |
1978 |
1st TV movie from a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island" |
1978 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1978 |
NY Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st & deflects the ball away |
1978 |
Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1 |
1979 |
100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy |
1979 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
1979 |
Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3 |
1979 |
NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretzky scores his 1st NHL goal |
1980 |
Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener |
1980 |
Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court |
1981 |
Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game |
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. |
1982 |
6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
1982 |
Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total) |
1982 |
NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins |
1982 |
President Reagan proclaims war against drugs |
1983 |
Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard |
1983 |
US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut |
1984 |
"Quilters" closes at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC after 24 performances |
1984 |
Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds |
1984 |
Detroit Tigers beat SD Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series |
1984 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Smirnoff Ladies Irish Golf Open |
1985 |
19th Country Music Association Award: Ricky Skaggs wins |
1985 |
On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7 |
1986 |
Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize |
1986 |
IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule |
1986 |
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Elie Wiesel (against violence/racism) |
1986 |
Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15 |
1987 |
In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well |
1987 |
St Louis Cards beat SF Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS |
1988 |
NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant (Patrick Div Playoff Champs) |
1988 |
Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize |
1988 |
Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16 |
1989 |
Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consec World Series openers |
1989 |
Texas A&I, Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards |
1990 |
Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship |
1990 |
SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs Atlanta (45-35) |
1991 |
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize |
1991 |
NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner scores his 500th NHL goal |
1992 |
Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates in 7 games for NL pennant |
1992 |
Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant |
1994 |
Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres |
1994 |
Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus |
1995 |
Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds) |
1996 |
Braves blow out St Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game |
1996 |
Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010) |
1996 |
Packer Chris Jacke kicks longest field goal to end overtime (53 yds) |
1997 |
Florida Marlins beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 1 in NLCS |
1998 |
NY Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak |
1998 |
Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. |
2003 |
Fan Steve Bartman deflects the ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou. Cubs give up eight runs in the inning and lose to the Marlins 8-3, and the Bartman incident is seen as the turning point in the series |
2012 |
20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria |
2013 |
Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices |
2014 |
Richard Flanagan's novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize |
2016 |
Historic town swamped, 22 dead in North Carolina flooding |
2017 |
Canadian says child killed, US wife raped during Afghan kidnapping |
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