On This Day:
Tuesday October 14, 2014 This is the 287th day of the year, with 78 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Annapolis Annapolis has its white-domed, pillared statehouse, the nations oldest in continuous use (1772) and a 40-block historic district with more pre-Revolutionary structures than any other U.S. historical district.
Holidays Belize: Columbus Day.
Feast day of St. Cellists I, St. Anadem, St. Justus of Lyons, St. Bur chard of Würzburg, St. Manaccus, St. Manechildis, and St. Dominic Lauricatus.
Events 1066 - The Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English and King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings. Killed in the battle, Harold II was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.
1705 - The English Navy captured Barcelona, Spain.
1884 - Photographic film was patented by U.S. entrepreneur and inventor George Eastman.
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he gave his speech. Theodore Roosevelt, President from 1901-1909, lost the election to Woodrow Wilson.
1920 - {University of Oxford{ degrees were conferred on women for the first time.
1922 - Lieutenant Lester James Maitland broke the 200-mile-per-hour airplane speed barrier with 216.1 mph in a Curtiss pursuit plane.
1933 - Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face trial and execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1944 - During World War II, Athens, Greece, was liberated the day after the Second British Parachute Brigade descended on the city.
1947 - Air Force pilot Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager broke the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California at 670 mph.
1960 - The idea of a Peace Corps was first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.
1964 - U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo Seven.
1971 - U.S. spacecraft Mariner 9 transmitted the first close-up TV pictures of Mars to Earth.
1979 - Over 100,000 gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and straight supporters marched on Washington, D.C., celebrating gay pride and demanding equal rights.
1982 - A mass wedding took place in Seoul, South Korea, when 5,837 couples were married simultaneously.
1986 - Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in promoting human rights.
1996 - American pop singer and actress Madonna gave birth to her first child, Lourdes Maria (Lola) Ciccone Leon.
1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, was charged with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
2001 - Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office was quarantined after an anthrax-tainted letter was opened.
Births 1633 - James II, succeeded Charles II as king of England (1685).
1644 - William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II.
1894 - E.E. Cummings, American poet and playwright.
1905 - Eugene Fodor, Hungarian-born American travel writer.
1927 - Roger Moore, British actor, especially known in James Bond films and the TV series "The Saint."
Deaths 1944 - Erwin Rommel, German field-marshal during World War II.
1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor.
1977 - Bing Crosby, popular American singer and actor.
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor, and pianist, in Lawrence, MA.
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