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The
14t o October
is the 287t day o the year (288t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 78 days bidin.
Events
- 1066
-
Norman conquest o Ingland
: Norman forces unner
William the Conqueror
defeat Saxon forces unner
Harold Godwinson
in the
Battle o Hastings
.
- 1322
-
Robert the Bruce
defeats
Edward II o Ingland
at Byland.
- 1881
-
Heymooth disaster
: 189 fishermen are kilt in a storm aff
Eyemouth
on the east coast o
Scotland
.
- 1889
- The ceety o Armenia in
Colombie
is foondit.
- 1913
- The Senghennydd Colliery disaster in
Wales
kills 439 miners.
- 1915
-
Warld War I
: The Kinrick o
Bulgarie
jyns wi the
Central Pouers
.
- 1920
- Pairt o Petsamo Province is ceded bi the
Soviet Union
tae
Finland
.
- 1939
-
Warld War II
: German submarine U-47 sinks Breetish
battleship
HMS Royal Oak at
Scapa Flow
,
Orkney
.
- 1944
- German general
Erwin Rommel
is forced tae commit suicide.
- 1947
- Pilot
Chuck Yeager
breaks the soond barrier.
- 1955
-
Vienna
's Burgtheater
Theatre
re-opens, efter
Warld War II
.
- 1962
- The
Cuban Missile Creesis
stairts: A U2 bomber taks fotos o
Soviet
nuclear wappens bein installed on
Cuba
.
- 1964
-
Martin Luther King Jr.
wins the
Nobel Peace Prize
.
- 1964
- Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev
is removit in a coup.
- 1966
- The ceety o
Montreal
inaugurates its first Metro seestem.
- 1969
- The
Unitit Kinrick
introduces the new 50 pence coin.
- 1981
-
Hosni Mubarak
becomes
Preses
o
Egyp
.
- 1991
-
Aung San Suu Kyi
wins the
Nobel Peace Prize
.
- 1994
-
Yasser Arafat
,
Yitzhak Rabin
an
Shimon Peres
win the
Nobel Peace Prize
.
- 2003
-
Gyude Bryant
becomes Interim
Preses
o
Liberie
.
- 2010
-
Mark Rutte
becomes
Prime meenister
o the
Netherlands
.
- 2010
- The
Commonweel Gemmes
in
Delhi
,
Indie
, end, wi a handower tae the 2014 host
Glesga
.
- 2012
-
Felix Baumgartner
jumps faster than the speed o soond ower Roswell,
New Mexico
.
- 2017
- A bomb attack in
Mogadishu
,
Somalie
, kills at least 300 fowk in ane o the kintra's deadliest attacks.
- 2017
- A commercial flicht launds on the Sooth Atlantic isle o
Saunt Helena
for the first time.
- 2019
-
Esther Duflo
becomes the seicont wumman tae win the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
, as well as its youngest winner (agit 46) an its first winner tae hae been born efter its creation in
1969
; she shares it wi
Abhijit Banerjee
an
Michael Kremer
.
- 2019
- Several
Catalan
politeecians are gien lang preeson sentences bi a
Spaingie
coort for thair role in the
Catalan unthirldom referendum, 2017
, leadin tae major protests.
Births
- 1630
-
Sophia o Hanover
(d.
1714
)
- 1633
-
James VII, Keeng o Scots
(d.
1701
)
- 1634
-
Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke o Modena
(d.
1662
)
- 1712
-
George Grenville
,
Prime Meenister o Great Breetain
(d.
1770
)
- 1784
-
Ferdinand VII o Spain
(d.
1833
)
- 1873
-
Jules Rimet
, 3rd
Preses
o
FIFA
(d.
1956
)
- 1882
-
Eamon de Valera
,
Preses
o
Ireland
(d.
1975
)
- 1890
-
Dwight D. Eisenhower
, 34nt
Preses o the Unitit States
(d.
1969
)
- 1894
-
Heinrich Lubke
, 2nt
Preses
o the Federal Republic o
Germany
(d.
1972
)
- 1905
-
Benny Yorston
, Scots fitbawer (d.
1977
)
- 1906
-
Hannah Arendt
, German poleetical philosopher (d.
1975
)
- 1914
-
Raymond Davis Jr.
, American pheesicist an chemist (d.
2006
)
- 1927
-
Roger Moore
, Inglis actor (d.
2017
)
- 1930
-
Mobutu Sese Seko
,
Preses
o
Zaire
(d.
1997
)
- 1939
-
Ralph Lauren
, American fashion designer
- 1940
-
Cliff Richard
, Inglis sangster
- 1945
-
Dan McCafferty
, Scots sangster
- 1965
-
Steve Coogan
, Inglis actor, comedian an writer
- 1971
-
Jyrki Katainen
, umwhile
Prime meenister
o
Finland
- 1973
-
George Floyd
, African-American kilt bi polis (d.
2020
)
- 1978
-
Steven Thompson
, Scots fitbawer
- 1978
-
Usher
, American rapper, sangster an dancer
- 1980
-
Ben Whishaw
, Inglis actor
- 1983
-
Lin Dan
, Cheenese badminton player
- 1984
-
Kevin Thomson
, Scots fitbawer
- 1989
-
Mia Wasikowska
, Australie actress
- 2001
-
Rowan Blanchard
, American actress
Daiths
- 1066
-
Harold Godwinson
, Saxon King o Ingland (b.
1022
)
- 1318
-
Edward Bruce
, brither o
Robert the Bruce
(b.
1280
)
- 1944
-
Erwin Rommel
, German general (b.
1891
)
- 1959
-
Errol Flynn
, Australian actor (b.
1909
)
- 1965
-
Joe Dodds
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1887
)
- 1977
-
Bing Crosby
, American sangster an actor (b.
1904
)
- 1984
-
Martin Ryle
, Inglis astronomer (b.
1918
)
- 1990
-
Leonard Bernstein
, American componer (b.
1918
)
- 1992
-
Willie Waddell
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1921
)
- 1999
-
Julius Nyerere
,
Preses
o
Tanzanie
(b.
1922
)
- 2010
-
Benoit Mandelbrot
, French-American mathemateecian (b.
1924
)
- 2012
-
Arlen Specter
, American politeecian (b.
1930
)
- 2015
-
Mathieu Kerekou
,
Preses
o
Benin
(b.
1933
)
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