October 14

October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years). There are 78 days remaining.

• 1066 - Battle of Hastings
• 1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins
• 1948 - Malagasy Republic becomes independent
• 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev
• 1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system.
• 1981 - Hosni Mubarak becomes president of Egypt

Births:

• 1630 - Sophia of Hanover
• 1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland
• 1644 - William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (+ 1718)
• 1857 - Elwood Haynes[?], automobile pioneer
• 1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer
• 1882 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (+ 1975)
• 1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th president of the United States
• 1893 - Lillian Gish, actress (+ 1993)
• 1894 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (+ 1962)
• 1904 - Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter
• 1906 - Hannah Arendt, intellectual
• 1910 - John Wooden[?], basketball coach
• 1911 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (+ 1990)
• 1916 - C. Everett Coop[?], United States Surgeon General
• 1927 - Roger Moore, actor
• 1930 - Joseph Mobutu, president of Zaire (+ 1997)
• 1935 - La Monte Young, American composer
• 1938 - John W. Dean III, former White House counsel, Watergate figure
• 1938 - Empress Farah[?] of Iran
• 1939 - Ralph Lauren[?], fashion designer
• 1940 - Cliff Richard, British rock singer
• 1941 - Jerry Glanville[?], Amcerican football[?] coach and commentator
• 1944 - Udo Kier[?], actor
• 1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist
• 1946 - Justin Hayward[?], musician ("The Moody Blues")
• 1958 - Thomas Dolby, rock musician
• 1978 - Usher Raymond, singer, actor

Deaths:

• 1066 - Harold Godwinson, king of England
• 1660 - Thomas Harrison, English soldier
• 1944 - Erwin Rommel, German Feldmarschall
• 1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor
• 1976 - Dame Edith Evans, actress
• 1977 - Bing Crosby, American singer, actor
• 1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor
• 1997 - Harold Robbins, American novelist
• 1998 - Frankie Yankovic, polka musician
• 1998 - Cleveland Amory[?], writer, animal rights activist

Holidays:

October 13 - October 15 - September 14 - November 14 - more historical anniversaries