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14 October, 1998
Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
14 October, 1996
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to 6,010.00, closing above 6,000 for the first time ever.
14 October, 1994
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
14 October, 1982
U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
14 October, 1981
Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner. Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
14 October, 1979
The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people.
14 October, 1973
Thailands University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 injured.
14 October, 1969
The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971.
14 October, 1968
Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours. First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7. A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby. Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983.
14 October, 1967
Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.
14 October, 1966
The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro.
14 October, 1964
Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev. American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
14 October, 1963
The term "Beatlemania" is coined by the British press to describe the scene at the previous nights performance by The Beatles on the TV show Val Parnells Sunday Night at the London Palladium.
14 October, 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
14 October, 1958
The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site. The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
14 October, 1949
Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Chinese Red Army occupies Canton (Guangzhou).
14 October, 1947
Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
14 October, 1946
Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire.
14 October, 1944
Allied troops land in Corfu. British troops march into Athens.
14 October, 1943
Japan declares Philippine Independence. Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camps 600 prisoners escape; about 50 survive the war. U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt.
14 October, 1942
A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137. Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field.
14 October, 1939
German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak.
14 October, 1933
Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
14 October, 1926
The childrens book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.
14 October, 1925
Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
14 October, 1920
Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland.
14 October, 1916
Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.
14 October, 1914
German troops occupy Bruges.
14 October, 1913
Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdoms worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives.
14 October, 1912
While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
14 October, 1910
English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue) near the White House.
14 October, 1888
Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
14 October, 1884
George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
14 October, 1882
University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
14 October, 1867
The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan.
14 October, 1863
American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station - Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.
14 October, 1843
The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel OConnell for conspiracy.
14 October, 1840
Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
14 October, 1835
John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.
14 October, 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. Henry Blair is the first African American to obtain a US patent. The patent was for a corn planter.
14 October, 1812
Work on Londons Regents Canal starts.
14 October, 1806
Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia
14 October, 1789
George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.
14 October, 1773
The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland. American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdoms East India Company tea ships cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
14 October, 1758
Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk
14 October, 1656
Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
14 October, 1586
Mary I of Scotland goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
14 October, 1582
Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
14 October, 1322
Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotlands independence.
14 October, 1066
Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.

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