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 288th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 1, 2020 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 445,176 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 ‘dihectaoctacontaoctagon’ day.
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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 121 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 2,854 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 14 Historical Events
- 1066 –Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
- 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 Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
- 1840 –The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
- 1882 –University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
- 1943 –Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp’s 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
- 1944 –Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government.
- 1947 –Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
- 1949 –Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
- 1949 –Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
- 1968 –The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A.
Who were born on October 14?
- 1882 –Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
- 1911 –Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990)
- 1951 –Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist
- 1963 –Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
- 1965 –Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
- 1965 –Karyn White, American singer
- 1966 –Mark Nyman, English Scrabble player
- 1967 –Savanna Samson, American porn star
- 1969 –P. J. Brown, American basketball player
- 1976 –Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan Cricketer
Who died on October 14?
- 1092 –Nizam al-Mulk, Seljuk vizier (b. 1018)
- 1929 –Henri Berger, German composer and royal bandmaster (b. 1844)
- 1960 –Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880)
- 1967 –Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)
- 1969 –Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
- 1983 –Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist (b. 1887)
- 1985 –Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
- 1989 –Michael Carmine, American actor (b.1959)
- 2005 –Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
- 2007 –Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (b. 1925)
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