October 14

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 14. From 1900 until now. October 14 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Usher (entertainer) (1978), Lourdes Ciccone-Leon (1996) and Alexandra Lamy (1971). Several movies were released around October 14 over the years, such as The Great Dictator in 1940 directed by Charles Chaplin and Le cercle rouge in 1970 directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
But much more happened on October 14 over the years: find out below

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Also see October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
French Republican Calendar - Navet (Turnip) Day, twenty-third day in the Month of VendTmiaire
Teachers' Day, or National Education Day in Poland
World Standards Day (from ISO, IEC, ITU)
RC Saints - Pope Callistus I
World Organ Donation Day
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2018 Óscar Romero, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980, is canonized by Pope Francis. Six other canonizations, including that of Pope Paul VI, are also announced. (BBC)
2017 14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings: At least 276 people are killed when a lorry filled with explosives detonates outside a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, becoming the worst terrorist attack in Somalia's history. (NBC News)
2016 Sinai insurgency: A suspected ISIL attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, leaves at least 12 Egyptian military personnel and 15 terrorists dead. (Reuters), (CNN)
2015 The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo calls for calm in the province of Aceh after a person was killed and a church burned down yesterday. (Channel News Asia)
2014 Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK positions in south-east Turkey. (BBC)
2013 Ethiopian officials report that a plot by a group of Somali nationals to attack Sunday's 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match in Addis Ababa failed when their explosives detonated inside their home, killing two of the would-be suicide bombers. (Reuters UK)
2012 Gunmen open fire at a mosque in the village of Dogo Dawa in the Nigerian state of Kaduna, killing at least 20 people. (BBC)
2011 U.S. President Barack Obama authorizes the deployment of up to 100 American soldiers to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist in operations against the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency. (''Wall Street Journal'')
2010 Eight ISAF NATO soldiers are killed in multiple attacks in Afghanistan, including four in roadside bombings. (AP)
2009 Negotiators in Honduras reach a deal to restore President Manuel Zelaya to office to end the political crisis in the country. (CBC) (AFP) (Xinhua)
2008 U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announces plans to take equity stakes totaling up to $250 billion in financial institutions.
2007 Al-habileen/lahij: Four citizens are killed on the 44th anniversary of the revolution against British colonial rule in South Yemen.
2006 College football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.
2005 Zimbabwean state-owned media announces that the Zimbabwean government briefly detained the United States ambassador, on Monday, October 10. The United States considers the matter closed following a formal apology. (Wash. Times)
2004 The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox 19–8 in Game 3 of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series. The game, which pushes the Yankees to a 3 games to 0 series lead, sets a record for longest 9 inning baseball game.
2003 Religion: RTÉ's ''Prime Time'' current affairs programme reports that Cahal Daly, Bishop of Down and Conor, refused to accept allegations passed on to him by students of improper sexual conduct by Monsignor Micheal Ledwith, then head of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland's major seminary. According to the programme Daly became aggressive, telling students ampquotgo back and say your prayersampquot. The TV programme confirms that Daly, and his predecessor, Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich, were
2002 The San Francisco Giants defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, four games to one, to win the National League Championship Series and move on the World Series. They will play the Anaheim Angels, who defeated the Minnesota Twins four games to one to win the American League Championship Series.
1998 New York Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak
1997 Florida Marlins beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 1 in NLCS
1996 Braves blow out St. Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game
1995 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)
1994 Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
1993 Stack's auctions the Reed Hawn Collection; the Mickley specimen of the Class I US 1804 Draped Bust dollar sells for $475,000. The Reed Hawn US 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin sells for $875,000.
1992 Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates in 7 games for NL pennant
1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize
1990 Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship
1989 Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consecutive World Series openers
1988 Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce and annulment
1987 St. Louis Cardinals beat SF Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS
1986 IOC decides to stagger Winter and Summer Olympic schedule
1985 19th Country Music Association Award: Ricky Skaggs wins
1984 Quilters closes at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC after 24 performances
1983 US Marine peacekeeper Sargeant Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut, Lebanon.
1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs
1981 Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
1980 Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener
1979 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy
1978 New York Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st and deflects the ball away
1977 Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
1976 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
1975 President Gerald Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside.
1974 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich
1973 Egyptian tanks move further into Israel
1972 Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats
1971 John andYoko appear on Dick Cavett Show
1970 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins
1969 Palme government forms in Sweden
1968 Beatles White Album completed
1967 The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
1966 Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV
1963 Algeria and Morocco border conflict
1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament
1961 How to Succeed in Business opens at 46th St. NYC for 1415 performances
1960 Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
1959 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community.
1957 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
1956 Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open
1955 ODECA secretariat inaugurated.
1954 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
1952 Buttrio Square opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances
1951 Organization of Central American States forms
1949 Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1948 Batavia lt-Governor-General of Mook dismissed
1947 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower
1946 Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire.
1945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Chicago Bears.
1944 British troops march into Athens.
1943 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland
1942 Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
1941 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk and Riga
1940 Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
1939 BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
1935 In the Canadian federal election, the Liberal Party of William Lyon Mackenzie King wins a majority government, defeating the Conservative Party of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett.
1934 Lux Radio Theatre premieres
1933 Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
1931 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1930 Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in Girl Crazy
1929 Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago Cubs, four games to one in 26th World Series. Philadelphia Athletics set World Series record of ten runs in an inning.
1926 Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark
1925 An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
1923 Fourth tropical storm of the year, formed just north of Panama.
1922 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue, New York City
1920 Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
1916 Perm State University is founded in Russia.
1914 German troops occupy Bruges.
1913 Explosion in coal mine at Cardiff kills 439
1912 Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee.
1910 The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
1909 Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series
1908 Baseball Writers Association of America, forms
1906 All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series
1905 New York Giants beats Philadelphia Athletics, four games to one in second World Series, Giant's Christy Mathewson's third straight world series shutout.
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