SomeFacts | October 14

On this day - October 14

1066 — The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of ...

1322 — Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England ...

1586 — Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against ...

1656 — The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the ...

1758 — Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare ...

1773 — The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of ...

1774 — American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces ...

1791 — The revolutionary group the United Irishmen is formed in ...

1805 — War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian ...

1806 — War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats ...

1808 — The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.

1809 — The Treaty of Schönbrunn is signed, ending the War of the ...

1843 — Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the ...

1863 — American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. ...

1884 — George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new ...

1888 — Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay ...

1898 — The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, ...

1908 — The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the ...

1910 — English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on ...

1912 — Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded ...

1913 — Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst ...

1915 — World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

1920 — Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging ...

1923 — After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were ...

1930 — The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, ...

1933 — Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World ...

1939 — World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British ...

1940 — World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills ...

1942 — World War II: The German submarine U-69 (1940) sinks the ...

1943 — World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state ...

1943 — World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of ...

1943 — World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly ...

1947 — Flying the Bell X-1 over Muroc Army Air Field in California, ...

1949 — The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United ...

1952 — Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and ...

1956 — Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, ...

1957 — At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in ...

1957 — The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be ...

1962 — The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American ...

1964 — The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee ...

1964 — Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for ...

1966 — The Dutch Cals cabinet fell after Norbert Schmelzer, the ...

1966 — The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground ...

1968 — Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called ...

1968 — The 6.5 Mw Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion ...

1968 — Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by ...

1973 — In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest ...

1975 — An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, ...

1979 — The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay ...

1980 — The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having ...

1981 — Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of ...

1982 — U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.

1991 — Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the ...

1994 — Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the ...

1998 — Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 ...

2003 — The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in ...

2004 — Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, ...

2004 — MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax ...

2012 — Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon ...

2014 — The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after ...

2014 — A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered ...

2015 — A suicide bomb attack in Tonsa, Pakistan kills at least seven ...

2017 — An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonated a massive truck bomb at ...

2021 — About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike.

2023 — Australians vote to reject a constitutional amendment that ...

2025 — A coup d'état successfully overthrows Malagasy president ...