This day in #History
October 14th
530 – Discorus ends his reign as Catholic anti – Pope
1066 – Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror and Nornan- French army defeat English forces of Harold II
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King
Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to
accept Scotland ‘s independence
1468 – Treaty of Peronne: Duke Charles the Stoute & French king Louis XI
1492 – Columbus leaves San Salvador; arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion (Bahamas )
1529 – Sultan Suleiman II ceases Vienna
1586 – Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for
conspiracy against Elizabeth
1700 – Rabbi Judah Hasid & Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem
1745 – French help convoy reaches Montrose
Scotland
1758 – Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army
beats Prussia
1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education) , is formed in Poland.
1773 – American Revolutionary War : The United
Kingdom’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland .
1774 – 1 st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia
1834 – 1 st black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
1867 – 15 th & last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in
Japan
1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
1884 – George Eastman patents paper -strip
photographic film
1916 – The Perm State University was founded in
Russia.
1920 – Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet
Union to Finland
1922 – 1 st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue NYC
1922 – 1 st automated telephones- Pennsylvania
exchange in NYC
1931 – Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of
Church & State
1933 – Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from
League of Nations
1943 – Japan declares Philippine Independence
(premier /pres Jose Laurel
1947 – Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower
1957 – Queen Elizabeth II
becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.
1958 – Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous
republic in French Community
1958 – The District of Columbia Bar Association
votes to accept black Americans as members .
1963 – Algeria & Morocco border conflict
1964 – Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize
1964 – Philips begins experimenting with color TV
1964 – Leonid Brezhnev & Alexei Kosygin replace
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
1969 – Palme government forms in Sweden
1976 – Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
1980 – Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan
promises to name a woman to Supreme Court
1982 – President Reagan proclaims war against
drugs
1986 – Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins
Nobel Peace Prize
1986 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Elie Wiesel
(against violence/ racism)
1988 – Naguib Mahfouz is 1 st Arabic writer to win
Nobel literature prize
1991 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize
1994 – Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat,
Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1906 – Hannah
Arendt, Hanover Germany, political theorist and historian (Origins of Totalitarianism .
1906 – Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d . 1949)
1925 – Phillip Tobias, Durban, Natal, South Africa , palaeoanthropologist and 3 x Nobel Prize nominee (hominid fossil sites ), ( d . 2012 )
1996 – Lourdes Marie Ciccone Leon, daughter of
singer Madonna
FAMOUS DEATHS
1610 – Amago Yoshihisa , Japanese samurai and
warlord (b . 1540 )
1893 – Conradus Leemans , Dutch archaeologist ,dies at 84
1984 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer ,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b . 1918
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