October 14

Sunday 14, 2001:

2001 - Delta Flight 458 from Atlanta to Newark, New Jersey, is diverted to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and passengers are taken off the flight while officials investigate a report of two "Middle Eastern men" making threats in a foreign tongue. It turned out to be two Orthodox Jews who were praying peacefully.

Thursday 14, 1999:

1999 - The South Carolina Supreme Court rules that the video poker machines in the state must be unplugged by June 30, 2000.

Wednesday 14, 1998:

Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Monday 14, 1996:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to 6,010.00, closing above 6,000 for the first time ever.

Wednesday 14, 1987:

18-month-old Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica") falls down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas (her nationally televised rescue takes 58 hours).

Monday 14, 1985:

U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese says in U.S. News & World Report, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."

Wednesday 14, 1981:

Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

Sunday 14, 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," drawing 200,000 people.

Sunday 14, 1973:

1973 - Thailand's University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 Injured

Thursday 14, 1971:

1971 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.

Wednesday 14, 1970:

1970 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.

Tuesday 14, 1969:

A race riot occurs in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Monday 14, 1968:

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.

Saturday 14, 1967:

Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.

Friday 14, 1966:

The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro).

Wednesday 14, 1964:

American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Monday 14, 1963:

The term "Beatlemania" is coined by the British press to describe the scene at the previous night's performance by The Beatles on the TV show "Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium," a top-rated program that was the British equivalent to "The Ed Sullivan Show."

Sunday 14, 1962:

Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.

Friday 14, 1960:

U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps.

Tuesday 14, 1958:

The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.

Wednesday 14, 1953:

The Qibya massacre was carried out by Israeli troops in a West Bank village.

Friday 14, 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. Ten defendants are sentenced to 5 years in prison each, and the eleventh to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions on June 4, 1951.

Tuesday 14, 1947:

Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.

Saturday 14, 1944:

World War II: Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certain death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chooses the latter.

Friday 14, 1927:

The California Court of Appeals, in upholding a sodomy conviction, rules that corroborative evidence could be circumstantial in nature.

Thursday 14, 1926:

The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.

Saturday 14, 1916:

Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee Universities refuse to play against a black person.

Tuesday 14, 1913:

The New Mexico Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction. Ex Parte DeVore, 136 P. 47.

Monday 14, 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.

Saturday 14, 1865:

The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes signed a treaty with the U.S. at a camp on the Little Arkansas River in Kansas. However, none of the parties to the treaty abided by it.

Wednesday 14, 1863:

Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.

Wednesday 14, 1840:

Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.

Wednesday 14, 1835:

1835 - John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.

Tuesday 14, 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.

Wednesday 14, 1812:

Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.

Tuesday 14, 1806:

Battle of Jena-Auerstädt

Thursday 14, 1773:

Revolutionary War: Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.

Saturday 14, 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.

Saturday 14, 1651:

Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.

Thursday 14, 1582:

Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

Sunday 14, 1066:

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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