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October 14
1066 - The Normans, under William the Conqueror, defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and highly respected American general, was born in Denison, Texas.
1933 - Nazi Germany withdrew from the Geneva disarmament conference and the League of Nations.
1939 - A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 - U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1960 - Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan.
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in civil rights.
1964 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
1968 - The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1977 - Singer Bing Crosby died at age 73.
1980 - Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, during a campaign event, pledged to name a woman to any Supreme Court vacancy he may experience in his administration. (He would nominate Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to ever serve on the high court, in 1981.)
1986 - Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 - A 58-hour drama began in Midland, Texas when 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center.
1990 - Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.
1991 - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
2001 - As U.S. jets opened a second week of raids in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country.
2006 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
2014 - A second nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas came down with Ebola after contracting it from a dying patient. (The nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, was later declared free of the disease.)
2019 - President Donald Trump announced sanctions targeting Turkey’s economy in response to Turkey’s assault against Kurdish fighters and civilians in Syria; the assault had begun after Trump announced that he was moving U.S. troops out of the way.
Birthdays
21 - Addison Wingate (reality star)
22 - Ariela Barer (actress)
26 - Jared Goff (football player)
28 - Esra Bilgic (actress)
29 - Shona McGarty (actress)
32 - Max Thieriot (actor)
33 - Jay Pharoah (actor/comedian)
34 - Skyler Shaye (actress)
35 - Sherlyn (actress)
36 - Alex Scott (soccer player)
39 - Jordan Brower (actor)
40 - Ben Whishlaw (actor)
41 - Stacy Keibler (professional wrestler/TV personality)
42 - Usher (singer)
44 - Stephen Hill (actor)
45 - Shaznay Lewis (actor/singer)
46 - Natalie Maines (country singer)
50 - Jon Seda (actor)
53 - Stephen A. Smith (TV/radio host)
54 - Edward Kerr (actor)
55 - Karyn White (singer)
55 - Steve Coogan (actor)
56 - Joe Girardi (baseball manager)
57 - Lori Petty (actor)
62 - Thomas Dolby (musician)
65 - Arleen Sorkin (TV personality)
67 - Greg Evigan (actor)
80 - Cliff Richard (singer)
81 - Ralph Lauren (fashion designer)
83 - Melba Montgomery (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 14
1905 - The New York Giants defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in five games to win the World Series.
1906 - The Chicago White Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs in six games to win the World Series.
1908 - Upset over seating arrangements at the World Series, sports reporters form a professional group that would later become the Baseball Writers Association of America.
1908 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win the World Series.
1909 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Detroit Tigers in the first World Series to go seven games.
1910 - Hall of Fame UCLA basketball coach John Wooden was born near Martinsville, Indiana.
1929 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs in five games to win the World Series.
1945 - The Chicago Cardinals ended the longest losing streak in NFL history. The team had lost 29 consecutive games.
1962 - George Blanda of the Houston Oilers threw six touchdown passes in a game against the New York Titans.
1970 - In their debut NBA game, the Cleveland Cavaliers lose to the Buffalo Braves 107-92.
1979 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of what would be his record 894 career goals in a home game against the Vancouver Canucks.
1984 - George "Sparky" Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues.
1984 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres in five games to win the World Series.
1985 - The New York Jets retire Joe Namath's #12.
1989 - Running back Johnny Bailey of Division II Texas A&I (now Texas A&M-Kingsville) sets an NCAA career rushing record with 6,085 yards, breaking Tony Dorsett's 13-year-old record.
1990 - Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers threw for 476 yards and six touchdowns in a 45-35 win over the Atlanta Falcons; five of the touchdown passes went to Jerry Rice.
2000 - Neil Parry had his right leg severely broken while playing on kickoff coverage during a game at UTEP. Nine days later his lower leg was amputated. Three years later he returned to football on one play with a prosthetic leg.
2003 - Fan Steve Bartman deflects the ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou, in a National League playoff game against the Florida Marlins; the Cubs would give up eight runs in the inning and lose the contest 8-3. The incident is seen as the turning point in the series.
1066 - The Normans, under William the Conqueror, defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and highly respected American general, was born in Denison, Texas.
1933 - Nazi Germany withdrew from the Geneva disarmament conference and the League of Nations.
1939 - A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 - U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1960 - Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan.
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in civil rights.
1964 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
1968 - The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1977 - Singer Bing Crosby died at age 73.
1980 - Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, during a campaign event, pledged to name a woman to any Supreme Court vacancy he may experience in his administration. (He would nominate Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to ever serve on the high court, in 1981.)
1986 - Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 - A 58-hour drama began in Midland, Texas when 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center.
1990 - Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.
1991 - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
2001 - As U.S. jets opened a second week of raids in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country.
2006 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
2014 - A second nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas came down with Ebola after contracting it from a dying patient. (The nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, was later declared free of the disease.)
2019 - President Donald Trump announced sanctions targeting Turkey’s economy in response to Turkey’s assault against Kurdish fighters and civilians in Syria; the assault had begun after Trump announced that he was moving U.S. troops out of the way.
Birthdays
21 - Addison Wingate (reality star)
22 - Ariela Barer (actress)
26 - Jared Goff (football player)
28 - Esra Bilgic (actress)
29 - Shona McGarty (actress)
32 - Max Thieriot (actor)
33 - Jay Pharoah (actor/comedian)
34 - Skyler Shaye (actress)
35 - Sherlyn (actress)
36 - Alex Scott (soccer player)
39 - Jordan Brower (actor)
40 - Ben Whishlaw (actor)
41 - Stacy Keibler (professional wrestler/TV personality)
42 - Usher (singer)
44 - Stephen Hill (actor)
45 - Shaznay Lewis (actor/singer)
46 - Natalie Maines (country singer)
50 - Jon Seda (actor)
53 - Stephen A. Smith (TV/radio host)
54 - Edward Kerr (actor)
55 - Karyn White (singer)
55 - Steve Coogan (actor)
56 - Joe Girardi (baseball manager)
57 - Lori Petty (actor)
62 - Thomas Dolby (musician)
65 - Arleen Sorkin (TV personality)
67 - Greg Evigan (actor)
80 - Cliff Richard (singer)
81 - Ralph Lauren (fashion designer)
83 - Melba Montgomery (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 14
1905 - The New York Giants defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in five games to win the World Series.
1906 - The Chicago White Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs in six games to win the World Series.
1908 - Upset over seating arrangements at the World Series, sports reporters form a professional group that would later become the Baseball Writers Association of America.
1908 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win the World Series.
1909 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Detroit Tigers in the first World Series to go seven games.
1910 - Hall of Fame UCLA basketball coach John Wooden was born near Martinsville, Indiana.
1929 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs in five games to win the World Series.
1945 - The Chicago Cardinals ended the longest losing streak in NFL history. The team had lost 29 consecutive games.
1962 - George Blanda of the Houston Oilers threw six touchdown passes in a game against the New York Titans.
1970 - In their debut NBA game, the Cleveland Cavaliers lose to the Buffalo Braves 107-92.
1979 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of what would be his record 894 career goals in a home game against the Vancouver Canucks.
1984 - George "Sparky" Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues.
1984 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres in five games to win the World Series.
1985 - The New York Jets retire Joe Namath's #12.
1989 - Running back Johnny Bailey of Division II Texas A&I (now Texas A&M-Kingsville) sets an NCAA career rushing record with 6,085 yards, breaking Tony Dorsett's 13-year-old record.
1990 - Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers threw for 476 yards and six touchdowns in a 45-35 win over the Atlanta Falcons; five of the touchdown passes went to Jerry Rice.
2000 - Neil Parry had his right leg severely broken while playing on kickoff coverage during a game at UTEP. Nine days later his lower leg was amputated. Three years later he returned to football on one play with a prosthetic leg.
2003 - Fan Steve Bartman deflects the ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou, in a National League playoff game against the Florida Marlins; the Cubs would give up eight runs in the inning and lose the contest 8-3. The incident is seen as the turning point in the series.