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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 ...