Historical Events on October 14

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• 530 Discorus ends his reign as Catholic anti-Pope

• 1700 Rabbi Judah Hasid & Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem
• 1745 French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
• 1758 Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia
• 1773 American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland
• 1773 The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland
• 1774 1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia
• 1805 Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria
• 1806 Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians
• 1812 Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
• 1834 First African-American granted a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
• 1834 In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.
• 1840 Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
• 1843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy
• 1862 Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18
• 1862 Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
• 1863 Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
• 1865 Cheyennes & Arapahos sign "peace treaty" then chased out Colorado
• 1867 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan
• 1882 University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.

• 1893 George Edwarde's "Gaiety Girl" premieres in London
• 1893 Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret

• 1901 Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King" premieres in NYC
• 1911 Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
• 1912 Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
• 1912 Cretan representatives are admitted to the Greek assembly; in doing so the Greek Government challenges the Turkish Government
• 1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, an explosion claims 439 lives.
• 1914 German troops occupy Brug

• 1916 The Perm State University was founded in Russia.
• 1920 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
• 1922 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
• 1922 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue NYC
• 1924 Arnold Schoeberg's opera "Die Gluckliche Hand" premieres in Vienna
• 1925 Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)

• 1931 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
• 1931 Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church & State
• 1933 Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations
• 1934 "Lux Radio Theatre" premieres
• 1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
• 1939 BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
• 1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed

• 1941 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga
• 1942 Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
• 1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
• 1942 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
• 1943 600 Jewish prisoners mount an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland, 300 successfully escape

• 1943 US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt
• 1944 Allied troops land in Corfu
• 1944 British troops march into Athens
• 1945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears
• 1946 Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire

• 1948 Batavia lt-governor-general van Mook dismissed
• 1948 Large scale fighting between Israel & Egypt
• 1949 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
• 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Canton

• 1950 Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison
• 1951 NFL Detroit Lions Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs Los Angeles Rams
• 1951 Organization of Central American States forms

• 1952 UN General Assembly first meets at its new headquarters in New York
• 1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
• 1953 Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die
• 1953 Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr
• 1953 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia
• 1953 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower promises to fire any federal worker taking 5th amendment with regard to communist party affiliation
• 1953 WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53

• 1958 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community
• 1958 Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong" premieres in NYC
• 1958 The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
• 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1959 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1960 Belgian senator Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen

• 1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1963 Algeria & Morocco border conflict
• 1963 WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins
• 1964 American swimmer Cathy Ferguson sets world record 1:07.7 to beat Kiki Caron of France by 0.2s and win the women's 100m backstroke gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
• 1964 American swimmer Dick Roth sets world record 4:45.4 to beat teammate Roy Saari and win the men's 400m individual medley gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
• 1964 Little known American distance runner Billy Mills scores major upset by winning the 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics; beats Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia by 0.4s; only American to ever win the event

• 1964 Mary Rand of Great Britain leaps a world record 6.76m to win the women's long jump gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
• 1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV

• 1964 US 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Steve Clark, Mike Austin, Gary Ilman & Don Schollander swim world record 3:33.2 to beat Germany by 4.0s and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
• 1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
• 1966 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
• 1966 Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
• 1968 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
• 1968 6.8 earthquake wrecks Australian town of Meckering, rupturing all nearby major roads and railways

• 1968 Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas
• 1968 MLB National League expansion draft: Snaan Diego Padres pick San Francisco Giants outfielder 'Downtown' Ollie Brown & Montreal Expos pick Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Manny Mota 1st as they choose 30 players each

• 1968 The Beatles finish recording their double album "The Beatles" more commonly known as "The White Album"
• 1968 Viorica Viscopoleanu of Romania sets world record 6.82m to win the women's long jump at the Mexico City Olympics; beats Sheila Sherwood of Great Britain by 0.14m
• 1969 Palme government forms in Sweden
• 1969 Race riots in Springfield, Massachusetts
• 1969 The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971
• 1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
• 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1971 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances

• 1972 North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition
• 1973 Egyptian tanks move further into Israel

• 1976 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30

• 1976 Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
• 1977 American rock band Kiss release their 2nd live album "Alive II"
• 1977 Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro

• 1978 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

• 1979 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy
• 1979 1st Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. by over 100,000 people
• 1979 Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3

• 1979 NHL NY Rangers retire Rod Gilbert's uniform number 7, the first number to be retired by the team

• 1980 Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener

• 1981 Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner
• 1981 Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
• 1982 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
• 1982 Islanders assessed 108 penalty minutes, Penguins 125 (233 total)
• 1982 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
• 1982 US President Reagan proclaims a war on drugs
• 1983 Grenada Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard launches a leftist coup within the revolutionary government and takes power for 3 days
• 1983 US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut
• 1984 NFL Cleveland Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds, in 24-20 loss to visiting NY Jets

• 1986 IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule

• 1986 Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
• 1987 In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well
• 1988 Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16
• 1988 Naguib Mahfouz is the 1st Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
• 1988 NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant by winning the Patrick Division Playoff Championship
• 1989 Texas A&I University running back Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards

• 1992 Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant
• 1994 NASA Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus

• 1995 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)
• 1996 Braves blow out St Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game
• 1996 Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)
• 1996 Packer Chris Jacke kicks longest field goal to end overtime (53 yds)
• 1998 Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1998 NY Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak

• 2012 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria
• 2013 Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013  Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices
• 2014 Richard Flanagan's novel "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize

• 2014 World Health Organization announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%

• 2017 Terrorist bomb attack in a truck in Mogadishu, Somalia leaves at more than 300 dead and hundreds injured
• 2018 Afghan batsman Hazratullah Zazai becomes only the 6th player in cricket history (3rd in T20) to hit 6-sixes in an over; scores 62 in 17 balls in Kabul Zwanan loss v Balkh Legends in Afghanistan Premier League
• 2018 Flash floods in Aude region, France kill at least 10 people

• 2019 Hundreds of forest fires break out in western Lebanon, killing three and prompting calls for international help

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