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This day in history: 14 October

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Key facts

408 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 14 October.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
1939: World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Angadrisma

Christian feast day: Blessed Roman Lysko

Christian feast day: Fortunatus of Todi

Christian feast day: Intercession of the Theotokos

Christian feast day: Joseph Schereschewsky (Episcopal Church (USA))

Christian feast day: October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Pope Callixtus I

Day of the Cathedral of the Living Pillar (Georgian Orthodox Church)

Mother's Day (Belarus)

National Education Day (Poland), formerly Teachers' Day

Nyerere Day (Tanzania)

Second Revolution Day (Yemen)

Events

1939World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.

1915World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

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

1912Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.

1863American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.

1964Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

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

1966The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.

1956Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).

1994Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.

1998Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.

1968Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.

2012Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.

1774American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.

1962The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.

1975An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.

1908The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

2017An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonated a massive truck bomb at the Zobe junction in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing 587 people, injuring 316 others, and leaving more than 500 missing.

1933Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.

1991Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1981Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

1923After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial.

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

1805War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm.

1808The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.

2004MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board.

1947Flying the Bell X-1 over Muroc Army Air Field in California, Captain Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in level flight, reaching Mach 1.05.

2003The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.

1806War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.

1943World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.

1843Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy.

1884George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

1930The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.

2004Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.

2023Australians vote to reject a constitutional amendment that would have established an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

1943World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.

1943World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.

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

2025A coup d'état successfully overthrows Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina.

1791The revolutionary group the United Irishmen is formed in Belfast, Ireland leading to the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Born on this day

2001Rowan Blanchard, American actress

1999Quinn Hughes, American ice hockey player

1998Ariela Barer, American actress

1994Jaelen Feeney, Australian rugby league player

1994Jared Goff, American football player

1994Joe Burgess, English rugby league player

1993Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer

1993Charlie Kirk, American media personality and political activist (died 2025)

1992Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer

1990Jordan Clark, English cricketer

1989Arca, Venezuelan musician

1988Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer

1988Max Thieriot, American actor

1987Jay Pharoah, American actor and comedian

1986Skyler Shaye, American actress

1986Tom Craddock, English footballer

1986Wesley Matthews, American basketball player

1985Alanna Nihell, Irish boxer

1985Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver

1985Ivan Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament

1984Alex Scott, English footballer

1984LaRon Landry, American football player

1983Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower

1983Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player

1982Carlos Mármol, Dominican baseball player

1982Matt Roth, American football player

1982Ryan Hall, American runner

1981Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer

1980Amjad Khan, Danish-English cricketer

1980Ben Whishaw, English actor

1980Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer

1980Paúl Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer

1980Scott Kooistra, American football player

1980Terrence McGee, American football player

1979Liina-Grete Lilender, Estonian figure skater and coach

1979Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress

1978Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player

1978Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist and songwriter, and politician

1978Paul Hunter, English snooker player (died 2006)

1978Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer

Died on this day

2024Janet Nelson, British historian (born 1942)

2024Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and academic (born 1933)

2024Thomas J. Donohue, American business executive (born 1938)

2024Tina Kaidanow, American diplomat and government official (born 1965)

2022Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (born 1950)

2021Lee Wan-koo, South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea

2019Harold Bloom, American literary critic (born 1930)

2019Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and model (born 1994)

2016Helen Kelly, New Zealand trade union leader (born 1964)

2015Margaret Keyes, American historian and academic (born 1918)

2015Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (born 1933)

2015Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (born 1947)

2015Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (born 1930)

2014A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (born 1923)

2014Elizabeth Peña, American actress (born 1959)

2014Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (born 1933)

2013Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (born 1954)

2013Frank Moore, American painter and poet (born 1946)

2013Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (born 1940)

2013Kōichi Iijima, Japanese author and poet (born 1930)

2013Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and politician (born 1936)

2013Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (born 1965)

2012Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (born 1930)

2012Dody Weston Thompson, American photographer (born 1923)

2012Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (born 1927)

2012James R. Grover Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1919)

2012John Clive, English actor and author (born 1933)

2012Larry Sloan, American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (born 1922)

2012Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (born 1920)

2011Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (born 1949)

Quote of the day

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms; you will be able to use them better when you are older.”

Seneca

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