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Events on October 14

• 1066 In the Battle of Hastings, the Normans who had advanced into England under William the Conqueror defeat the Anglo-Saxon army of Harald II, who is killed in the battle. From then on, England is under Norman rule.
• 1806 The Battle of Jena and Auerstedt during the War of the Fourth Coalition ends with the victory of the French troops under Napoleon over Prussia.
• 1892 In Great Britain, the collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is published, featuring twelve short stories by the author Arthur Conan Doyle that had previously been published. The book is illustrated by Sidney Paget.
• 1933 Joseph Goebbels declares the German Reich's withdrawal from the League of Nations. At the same time, Germany leaves the Geneva Disarmament Conference.
• 1947 In a Bell X-1 at an altitude of approximately 13,000 metres, Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to demonstrably break the sound barrier.
• 1962 Beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis: On the orders of US President John F. Kennedy, U-2F aircraft fly from Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas over the Soviet missile sites in Cuba in search of Soviet missiles.
• 1982 The US science fiction film Blade Runner opens in German cinemas.
• 1990 In the accession territory of reunified Germany, elections to the state parliaments are held eleven days after the State Introduction Act takes effect. In the state parliament elections, the CDU is the strongest party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, while the SPD is the strongest party in Brandenburg.
• 1996 Matthias Ettrich starts the K Desktop Environment project.
• 2012 As part of the Red Bull Stratos project, Felix Baumgartner jumps from an altitude of approximately 39 kilometres and becomes the first person to break the sound barrier in free fall.
• 2020 A police officer kills the 46-year-old African American George Floyd, who is lying on the ground. Large-scale protests immediately follow the incident in the United States and worldwide under the slogan “Black Lives Matter”.
• 2024 The Europa Clipper space mission to explore the icy moon Europa launches at 16:06 GMT from the Kennedy Space Center spaceport.

Born on October 14

• 1871 Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer and conductor
• 1888 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand-British writer
• 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician
• 1893 Lillian Gish, American actress
• 1940 Cliff Richard, British pop singer
• 1941 Peter Ducke, German football player
• 1950 Kurt Jara, Austrian football player and coach
• 1980 Daniel Boschmann, German presenter
• 1980 Susan Sideropoulos, German actress
• 1992 Laura Benkarth, German female football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „14. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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