10-14-2006, 05:42 AM
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October 14th
1066 ~ Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
1894 ~ Birthday of E. E. Cummings, American poet.
1926 ~ Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, was published.
1940 ~ Birthday of Cliff Richard, British rock singer.
1944 ~ Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certain death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chose the latter.
1947 ~ Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
1962 ~ Cuban Missile Crisis began: A U-2 flight over Cuba took photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
1964 ~ Civil Rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 ~ Death of Leonard Bernstein, Composer & Conductor.
1994 ~ PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
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