October, 14th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Sunday 14, 2001:
2001 - Delta Flight 458 from Atlanta to Newark, New Jersey, is diverted to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and passengers are taken off the flight while officials investigate a report of two "Middle Eastern men" making threats in a foreign tongue. It turned out to be two Orthodox Jews who were praying peacefully.

Thursday 14, 1999:
1999 - The South Carolina Supreme Court rules that the video poker machines in the state must be unplugged by June 30, 2000.

Wednesday 14, 1998:
Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Monday 14, 1996:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to 6,010.00, closing above 6,000 for the first time ever.

Wednesday 14, 1987:
18-month-old Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica") falls down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas (her nationally televised rescue takes 58 hours).

Monday 14, 1985:
U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese says in U.S. News & World Report, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."

Wednesday 14, 1981:
Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

Sunday 14, 1979:
The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," drawing 200,000 people.

Sunday 14, 1973:
1973 - Thailand's University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 Injured

Thursday 14, 1971:
1971 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.

Wednesday 14, 1970:
1970 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.

Tuesday 14, 1969:
A race riot occurs in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Monday 14, 1968:
Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.

Saturday 14, 1967:
Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.

Friday 14, 1966:
The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro).

Wednesday 14, 1964:
American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Monday 14, 1963:
The term "Beatlemania" is coined by the British press to describe the scene at the previous night's performance by The Beatles on the TV show "Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium," a top-rated program that was the British equivalent to "The Ed Sullivan Show."

Sunday 14, 1962:
Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.

Friday 14, 1960:
U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps.

Tuesday 14, 1958:
The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.

Wednesday 14, 1953:
The Qibya massacre was carried out by Israeli troops in a West Bank village.

Friday 14, 1949:
Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Ten defendants are sentenced to 5 years in prison each, and the eleventh to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions on June 4, 1951.

Tuesday 14, 1947:
Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.

Saturday 14, 1944:
World War II: Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certain death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chooses the latter.

Friday 14, 1927:
The California Court of Appeals, in upholding a sodomy conviction, rules that corroborative evidence could be circumstantial in nature.

Thursday 14, 1926:
The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.

Saturday 14, 1916:
Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee Universities refuse to play against a black person.

Tuesday 14, 1913:
The New Mexico Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction. Ex Parte DeVore, 136 P. 47.

Monday 14, 1912:
While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.

Saturday 14, 1865:
The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes signed a treaty with the U.S. at a camp on the Little Arkansas River in Kansas. However, none of the parties to the treaty abided by it.

Wednesday 14, 1863:
Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.

Wednesday 14, 1840:
Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.

Wednesday 14, 1835:
1835 - John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.

Tuesday 14, 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.

Wednesday 14, 1812:
Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.

Tuesday 14, 1806:
Battle of Jena-Auerstädt

Thursday 14, 1773:
Revolutionary War: Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.

Saturday 14, 1656:
Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.

Saturday 14, 1651:
Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.

Thursday 14, 1582:
Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

Sunday 14, 1066:
In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-october/on-this-day.html


People born on October 14

1980:
Terrence McGee, American football player (b: October 14, 1980) (Biography of Terrence McGee)

1979:
Stacy Keibler, American professional wrestler (b: October 14, 1979) (Biography of Stacy Keibler)

1978:
Paul Hunter, English snooker player (b: October 14, 1978) (Biography of Paul Hunter)
Usher Raymond, American singer and actor (b: October 14, 1978) (Biography of Usher Raymond)

1977:
Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player (b: October 14, 1977) (Biography of Kelly Schumacher)

1976:
Nata?a Kej?ar, Slovenian swimmer (b: October 14, 1976) (Biography of Nata?a Kej?ar)

1971:
Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer (b: October 14, 1971) (Biography of Jorge Costa)

1969:
David Strickland, American actor (b: October 14, 1969 ; d: March 22, 1999) (Biography of David Strickland)

1968:
Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer (b: October 14, 1968) (Biography of Matthew Le Tissier)

1964:
Olu Oguibe, American artist (b: October 14, 1964) (Biography of Olu Oguibe)

1962:
Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player (b: October 14, 1962) (Biography of Jaan Ehlvest)

1958:
Thomas Dolby, British musician (b: October 14, 1958) (Biography of Thomas Dolby)

1952:
Harry Anderson, American actor (b: October 14, 1952) (Biography of Harry Anderson)

1949:
Katy Manning, British actress (b: October 14, 1949) (Biography of Katy Manning)

1947:
Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist and actor (b: October 14, 1947) (Biography of Lukas Resetarits)

1946:
Justin Hayward, English musician (Moody Blues) (b: October 14, 1946) (Biography of Justin Hayward)
Craig Venter, American biologist (b: October 14, 1946) (Biography of Craig Venter)

1944:
Udo Kier, German actor (b: October 14, 1944) (Biography of Udo Kier)

1940:
Perrie Mans, South Africa snooker player (b: October 14, 1940) (Biography of Perrie Mans)
Cliff Richard, British singer (b: October 14, 1940) (Biography of Cliff Richard)

1939:
Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer (b: October 14, 1939) (Biography of Ralph Lauren)

1938:
John W. Dean III, American White House counsel and Watergate figure (b: October 14, 1938) (Biography of John W. Dean III)
Empress Farah Diba of Iran (b: October 14, 1938) (Biography of Farah Diba)

1935:
La Monte Young, American composer (b: October 14, 1935) (Biography of La Monte Young)

1930:
Joseph Mobutu, President of Zaire (b: October 14, 1930) (Biography of Joseph Mobutu)

1927:
Roger Moore, English actor (b: October 14, 1927) (Biography of Roger Moore)

1916:
C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General (b: October 14, 1916) (Biography of C. Everett Koop)

1914:
Dick Durrance, American skier (b: October 14, 1914 ; d: June 13, 2004) (Biography of Dick Durrance)
Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: October 14, 1914) (Biography of Raymond Davis Jr.)

1911:
Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b: October 14, 1911 ; d: October 13, 1990) (Biography of Le Duc Tho)

1910:
John Wooden, American basketball coach (b: October 14, 1910) (Biography of John Wooden)

1908:
Allan Jones, American actor and singer (b: October 14, 1908 ; d: January 27, 1992) (Biography of Allan Jones)

1906:
Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b: October 14, 1906 ; d: February 12, 1949) (Biography of Hassan al Banna)
Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (b: October 14, 1906) (Biography of Hannah Arendt)

1904:
Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (b: October 14, 1904) (Biography of Christian Pineau)

1894:
E. E. Cummings, American poet (b: October 14, 1894 ; d: September 3, 1962) (Biography of e. e. cummings)

1893:
Lillian Gish, American actress (b: October 14, 1893 ; d: February 27, 1993) (Biography of Lillian Gish)

1890:
Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th President of the United States (b: October 14, 1890 ; d: March 28, 1969) (Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower)

1888:
Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b: October 14, 1888 ; d: January 9, 1923) (Biography of Katherine Mansfield)

1882:
Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b: October 14, 1882 ; d: July 11, 1959) (Biography of Charlie Parker (cricketer))
Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (b: October 14, 1882 ; d: August 29, 1975) (Biography of Eamon de Valera)

1873:
Ray Ewry, American athlete (b: October 14, 1873 ; d: September 29, 1937) (Biography of Ray Ewry)

1861:
Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b: October 14, 1861 ; d: March 12, 1944) (Biography of Artur Gavazzi)

1857:
Elwood Haynes, American automobile pioneer (b: October 14, 1857 ; d: April 13, 1925) (Biography of Elwood Haynes)

1842:
Joe Start, baseball player (b: October 14, 1842 ; d: March 27, 1927) (Biography of Joe Start)

1806:
Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (b: October 14, 1806) (Biography of Preston King)

1733:
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b: October 14, 1733 ; d: July 21, 1798) (Biography of François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt)

1687:
Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b: October 14, 1687 ; d: October 1, 1768) (Biography of Robert Simson)

1644:
William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (b: October 14, 1644 ; d: July 30, 1718) (Biography of William Penn)

1643:
Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (b: October 14, 1643) (Biography of Bahadur Shah I)

1633:
James II of England and VII of Scotland (b: October 14, 1633 ; d: September 16, 1701) (Biography of James II of England)

1630:
Sophia of Hanover (b: October 14, 1630 ; d: June 8, 1714) (Biography of Sophia of Hanover)

1499:
Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (b: October 14, 1499 ; d: July 20, 1524) (Biography of Claude of France)

1493:
Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b: October 14, 1493 ; d: December 31, 1568) (Biography of Shimazu Tadayoshi)

1257:
King Przemysl II of Poland (b: October 14, 1257) (Biography of Przemysl II of Poland)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-october/births.html