- Birth
- 1909
- "Birth of Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver"
- 1909
- "Birth of Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kiss Me, Kate, and other films)"
- event
- 1758
- "Seven Years War: Battle of Hochkirk (also called Hochkirch), Saxony ."
- 1884
- American entrepreneur and inventor George Eastman patented photographic film
- 1933
- Nazi Germany withdrew from the League of Nations .
- 1939
- "WWII: The German submarine U-47 sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, killing 833 sailors"
- 1968
- The astronauts on board Apollo 7 gave the first live telecast from a manned American spacecraft.
- 1969
- 50p coin introduced in Britain (reduced in size 1998)
- 1973
- Marriage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey
- 1979
- The first Gay Rights March took place in Washington DC
- 1983
- British Trade and Industry Secretary Cecil Parkinson resigned after details of his affair with his former secretary were revealed.
- 1994
- Iceland
- "Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres won the Nobel Peace Prize"
- 1998
- United States
- "Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives, was charged with the bombing of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta."
- Death
- 1066
- Great Britain
- Battle of Hastings – Harold II dies
- 1958
- "Death of Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer ."
- 1959
- Australia
- "Death of Errol Flynn, Australian actor and on of the great personalities of the Golden Age of Hollywood." more
- 1984
- Great Britain
- "Death of Martin Ryle, Nobel Prize-winning British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescopes capable of detecting weak signals"
- 1998
- "Death of Frankie Yankovic, Slovenian-born American musician (‘America’s Polka King’)."
- 1998
- "Death of Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist ."
14th October anniversaries
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