Today in History – October 14th

Published October 14, 2012 |

1066, Battle of Hastings, Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
1322, Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence.
1582, Because implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1633, James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701) was born.
1644, William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718) was born.
1758, Seven Years’ War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk.
1805, Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
1808, The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1812, Work on London’s Regent’s Canal starts.
1840, The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
1843, The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O’Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
1863, Battle of Bristoe Station, Confederate troops fail to drive Union Army completely out of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
1882, University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
1884, The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a US Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1888, Louis Le Prince films 1st motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969) was born.
1893, Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993) was born.
1894, E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962) was born.
1898, The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, UK, killing 106.
1908, The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
1920, Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
1926, The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is 1st published.
1933, Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
1938, 1st flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company’s P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
1939, The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1940, Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
1944, Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891) died.
1959, Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909) died.
1964, Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1966, The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
1967, folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the US Army’s induction center in Oakland, California.
1977, Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903) died.
1982, US President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1990, Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918) died.
2009, Captain Lou Albano, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1933) died.

Chris Rivait

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