History Events on October 14

A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.

#2014_Nepal_snowstorm_disaster

Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.

#Felix_Baumgartner

World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.

#Second_Philippine_Republic

The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.

#Republic_of_Ragusa

War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt.

#Battle_of_Jena-Auerstedt

The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.

#23rd_Canadian_Parliament

Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.

#Chuck_Yeager

The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

#Commission_of_National_Education

The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.

#Cuban_Missile_Crisis

Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

#Roundhay_Garden_Scene

American inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip film.

#George_Eastman

Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.

#Battle_of_Hochkirch

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar converts from Hinduism to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers.

#B._R._Ambedkar

Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.

#Oslo_Accords

Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.

#John_Flammang_Schrank

Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.

#League_of_Nations

Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

#Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

Anita Bryant gets a pie thrown in her face at a news conference in Des Moines by gay rights activist Tom Higgins for her anti-LGBT commentary.

#Anita_Bryant

MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during take off from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board.

#MK_Airlines_Flight_1602

The 6.5 Mw? Meckering earthquake shook the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20-28 people injured.

#1968_Meckering_earthquake

The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.

#Smith_Act_trials_of_Communist_Party_leaders

The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

#1908_World_Series

Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.

#Senghenydd_colliery_disaster

A massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others.

#14_October_2017_Mogadishu_bombings

Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.

#Pinnacle_Airlines_Flight_3701

Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

#Hosni_Mubarak

Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.

#Jim_Hines

Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell arrested by British on charges of criminal conspiracy.

#Daniel_O'Connell

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

#Aung_San_Suu_Kyi

The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.

#SS_Mohegan

Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.

#Battle_of_Triangle_Hill

Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was to give a lecture the next day.

#Anita_Sarkeesian

The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.

#Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk

War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm.

#Battle_of_Elchingen

The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.

#Serbia_v_Albania_(UEFA_Euro_2016_qualifying)

At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.

#1957_Valencia_flood

The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.

#Apollo_7

A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.

#Taunsa_Sharif_bombing

Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.

#Treaty_of_Tartu_(Russian-Finnish)

The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.

#Battle_of_Hastings

The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.

#Nikita_Khrushchev

English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.

#Claude_Grahame-White

Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.

#Mary,_Queen_of_Scots

World War II: Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.

#Erwin_Rommel

The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.

#Montreal_Metro

World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

#Bulgaria_during_World_War_I

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

U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.

The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.

In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.

World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.

World War II: Prisoners at the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans.

World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.

World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.

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

American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.

Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.