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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 1, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,814,400 minutes 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.
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 107 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 4,315 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 14 Historical Events
- 1773 –Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company’s tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
- 1806 –Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia.
- 1843 –The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
- 1888 –Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
- 1933 –Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
- 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.
- 1957 –Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
- 1973 –In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
- 1998 –Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
Who were born on October 14?
- 1633 –James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
- 1842 –Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
- 1938 –Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
- 1952 –Harry Anderson, American actor
- 1953 –Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer
- 1957 –Kenny Neal, American blues singer & guitarist
- 1967 –Savanna Samson, American porn star
- 1968 –Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
- 1983 –Vanessa Lane, American porn star
- 1988 –MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress
Who died on October 14?
- 1552 –Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
- 1660 –Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
- 1969 –Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
- 1976 –Dame Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
- 1983 –Johannes O., Dutch murderer (b. 1916)
- 1990 –Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
- 2004 –Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)
- 2007 –Judy Crichton, American television documentary producer (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born American mathematician (b. 1924)
- 2011 –Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
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