What are the important events that happened on October 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 14 is the 287^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 1, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,000 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctacontaheptagon’ day.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 126 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,680 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 14 Historical Events

• 1582 –
  Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1933 –
  Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
• 1943 –
  The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
• 1949 –
  Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
• 1958 –
  The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 1966 –
  The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
• 1968 –
  Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
• 1979 –
  The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands “an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people”, and draws 200,000 people.
• 1982 –
  U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
• 2006 –
  College football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.

Who were born on October 14?

• 1493 –
  Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
• 1643 –
  Emperor Bahadur Shah I of India (d. 1712)
• 1861 –
  Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
• 1888 –
  Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)
• 1947 –
  Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist
• 1953 –
  Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer
• 1963 –
  Lori Petty, American actress
• 1964 –
  Olu Oguibe, American artist
• 1967 –
  Savanna Samson, American porn star
• 1976 –
  Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion

Who died on October 14?

• 1092 –
  Nizam al-Mulk, Seljuk vizier (b. 1018)
• 1565 –
  Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
• 1703 –
  Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
• 1929 –
  Henri Berger, German composer and royal bandmaster (b. 1844)
• 1965 –
  Randall Jarrell, American poet and essayist (b. 1914)
• 1977 –
  Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
• 1983 –
  Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist (b. 1887)
• 1990 –
  Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
• 2000 –
  Art Coulter, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• 2010 –
  Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (b. 1952)