October 14

What happened on October 14 in history

5 events fall on October 14, from 1066 to 1962. Read them below, then try to place a historical scene yourself — guess where in the world it happened and in what year.

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Events on October 14

  1. 1066

    The Battle of Hastings

    Harold is killed and England changes hands in a single day.

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  2. 1912

    Roosevelt is shot and speaks anyway

    A folded speech and a glasses case slow the bullet in Milwaukee.

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  3. 1926

    Winnie-the-Pooh is published

    Methuen releases A. A. Milne's book in London.

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  4. 1947

    The sound barrier is broken

    Chuck Yeager flies faster than sound over the Mojave.

    Chuck Yeager was dropped from the belly of a B-29 over the Mojave in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 and flew past Mach 1 in level flight. Engineers had feared the aircraft would be destroyed by the shock waves that had killed earlier test pilots. The flight and the data it returned showed that controlled flight beyond Mach 1 was achievable, and fed directly into the aircraft that followed.

    Source: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum — Bell X-1

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  5. 1962

    The Cuban Missile Crisis begins

    A U-2 photographs Soviet missile sites under construction in Cuba.

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