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Today in History: October 14
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Today in History
October 14

1066   William of Normandy defeats King Harold in the Battle of Hastings.
1651   Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress.
1705   The English Navy captures Barcelona in Spain.
1773   Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo is burned at Annapolis, Md.
1806   Napoleon Bonaparte crushes the Prussian army at Jena, Germany.
1832   Blackfeet Indians attack American Fur Company trappers near Montana's Jefferson River, killing one.
1884   Transparent paper-strip photographic film is patented by George Eastman.
1912   Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insisted on finishing his speech.
1917   Mata Hari, a Paris dancer, is executed by the French after being convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans.
1930   Singer Ethel Merman stuns the audience when she holds a high C for sixteen bars while singing "I Got Rhythm" during her Broadway debut in Gershwin's Girl Crazy.
1933   The Geneva disarmament conference breaks up as Germany proclaims withdrawal from the disarmament initiative, as well as from the League of Nations, effective October 23. This begins German policy of independent action in foreign affairs.
1944   German Field Marshal Rommel, suspected of complicity in the July 20th plot against Hitler, is visited at home by two of Hitler's staff and given the choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chooses suicide and it is announced that he died of wounds.
1947   Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier aboard a Bell X-1 rocket plane.
1950   Chinese Communist Forces begin to infiltrate the North Korean Army.
1964   Rev. Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence.

Born on October 14
1644   William Penn, English Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania.
1888   Katherine Mansfield, short story writer.
1890   Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President (1953-1961).
1894   e.e. cummings, American poet.
1896   Lilian Gish, Film actress, "The First Lady of the Silent Screen."
1905   Eugene Fodor, Hungarian-born travel writer.
1916   C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General.
1926   Son Thomas, blues guitarist and singer.

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