October 14

October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years). There are 78
days remaining.

Events:

   * 1066 - Battle of Hastings
   * 1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound,
     the first man to do so in level flight.
   * 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins
   * 1948 - Malagasy Republic becomes independent
   * 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader
     of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev
   * 1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system.
   * 1981 - Hosni Mubarak becomes president of Egypt

Births:

   * 1630 - Sophia of Hanover
   * 1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland
   * 1644 - William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (+ 1718)
   * 1857 - Elwood Haynes, automobile pioneer
   * 1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer
   * 1882 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (+ 1975)
   * 1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th president of
     the United States
   * 1893 - Lillian Gish, actress (+ 1993)
   * 1894 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (+ 1962)
   * 1904 - Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter
   * 1906 - Hannah Arendt, intellectual
   * 1910 - John Wooden, basketball coach
   * 1911 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (+ 1990)
   * 1916 - C. Everett Coop, United States Surgeon General
   * 1927 - Roger Moore, actor
   * 1930 - Joseph Mobutu, president of Zaire (+ 1997)
   * 1935 - La Monte Young, American composer
   * 1936 - Thomas N. Bland, Jr., U.S.Marine Corps Photographer
   * 1938 - John W. Dean III, former White House counsel, Watergate figure
   * 1938 - Empress Farah of Iran
   * 1939 - Ralph Lauren, fashion designer
   * 1940 - Cliff Richard, British rock singer
   * 1941 - Jerry Glanville, American football coach and commentator
   * 1944 - Udo Kier, actor
   * 1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist
   * 1946 - Justin Hayward, musician ("The Moody Blues")
   * 1953 - Diann Karin Lynn. Capt. U.S.Navy
   * 1958 - Thomas Dolby, rock musician
   * 1978 - Usher Raymond, singer, actor

Deaths:

   * 1066 - Harold Godwinson, king of England
   * 1660 - Thomas Harrison, English soldier
   * 1944 - Erwin Rommel, German Feldmarschall
   * 1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor
   * 1976 - Dame Edith Evans, actress
   * 1977 - Bing Crosby, American singer, actor
   * 1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor
   * 1997 - Harold Robbins, American novelist
   * 1998 - Frankie Yankovic, polka musician
   * 1998 - Cleveland Amory, writer, animal rights activist

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