10-14-2004, 05:35 AM
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October 14th
1066 ~ Battle of Hastings - The Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror defeated the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
1882 ~ Birthday of Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot.
1894 ~ Birthday of E. E. Cummings, American poet.
1926 ~ ”Winnie-the-Pooh”, by A.A. Milne, was published.
1940 ~ Birthday of Cliff Richard, British rock singer.
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 chose the latter.
1947 ~ Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
1962 ~ Cuban Missile Crisis began: A U-2 flight over Cuba took photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
1964 ~ American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 ~ PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (Palestine), Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (Israel) and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel) shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
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