October 14th
Holidays and Festivals
Hramul Orasului (Chisinau's, Moldova) * (see below)
World Standards Day
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction Teachers' Day a.k.a. National Education Day (Poland)
Flag Day (Madagascar) * CLICK HERE
Wine Day (Korea) * CLICK HERE
National Dessert Day (USA)
International Top Spinning Day
National Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day
Be Bald and Free Day
Navet (Turnip) Day (French Republican) twenty-third day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Feast of Pope Callistus I (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Angadrisma (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Fortunatus of Todi (Roman Catholic)
Day of the Cathedral of Living Pillar, Georgian Orthodox Church
* Cirio de Nazare Belem, Brazil - October - 2 weeks (8-14)
* Hramul Orasului (Chisinau's, Moldova) This is Moldova's capital, the local holiday is known as "Hramul Orasului" by it's locals.
Toast of The Day
"Old wood to burn,
Old books to read,
Old wine to drink,
Old friends to trust."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Russian Qualude
1 Part Vodka
1 Part Bailey's
1 Part Frangelica
1 Part Cream
Wine of The Day
Black Box (2008) Malbec
Mendoza
$30
Beer of The Day
AleSmith Wee Heavy
Brewer - AleSmith Brewing Co. San Diego, CA, USA
Style - Scotch Ale
Joke of The Day
A guy checks into a hotel in Vegas on a business trip and starts to feel a bit lonely so he decides to get a call girl. So he picks up the phone and calls the number he got from the cab driver.
"Hello?" the woman says.
"Hi, are you nasty? I want nasty. I want it hard and fast.
I'm talking kink all night. You name it we'll do it. Bring equiptment, bring toys. You do me and I'll do you--all night. Tie me up, wear a strap on, cover me in anything. How does that sound?"
She says, "Umm, Sir? For an outside line you need to press 9."
Quote of The Day
"Honk if you love peace and quiet."
- Bumper Sticker
Whisky of The Day
$35
October Observances
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
American Pharmacist Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Apple Jack Month
Apple Month
Awareness Month
Bat Appreciation Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celebrate Sun Dried Tomatoes Month
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign (10/1-12/31)
Church Library Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
Co-op Awareness Month
Computer Learning Month
Cookie Month
Cut Out Dissection Month
Diversity Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Eat Better, Eat Together Month
Eat Country Ham Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair, Improve Your Home Month (10/1-3/31)
Fair Trade Month
Feral Hog Month or Hog Out Month
Financial Planning Month
Gay and Lesbian History Month
German-American Heritage Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Go Hog Wild, Eat Country Ham Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Intergeneration Month
International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month
International Drum Month
International Starman Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
LGBT History Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
Lupus Awareness Month
Month of Free Thought
National "Gain The Inside Advantage" Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
National Arts & Humanities Month
National Audiology Awareness Month
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Book Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Canine Good Health Month
National Caramel Month
National Chili Month
National Chiropractic Month
National Communicate with Your Kid Month
National Construction Toy Month
National Cookbook Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Depression Education & Awareness Month
National Diabetes Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Family Sexuality Education Month
National Field Trip Month
National Gain the Inside Advantage Month
National Go On A Field Trip Month
National Kitchen & Bath Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National RSV Awareness Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Sarcastic Awareness Month
National Seafood Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month
National Toilet Tank Repair Month
National Vegetarian Month
National Window Covering Safety Month
National Work and Family Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Pear and Pineapple Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Positive Attitude Month
Raptor Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Rhizomes and Persimmons Month
Rhubarb Month
Right Brainers Rule! Month
Sausage Month
Second Binary Month (2of 3) (0s and 1s)
Self-Promotion Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Squirrel Awareness Month (Different Than Squirrel Appreciation Day in January)
Tackling Hunger Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
Wishbones for Pets Month (10/15 - 11/30)
Women's Small Business Month
Workplace Politics Awareness Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
World Menopause Month
Observances this Week
World Rainforest Week, Second Week in OctoberPet Peeve Week, Second Week in October
Take Your Medicine Americans Week, October 10th through 16th
Earth Science Week, Second Full Week in October
Freedom From Bullies Week, Second Full Week in October
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week, Second Full Week in October
National Chestnut Week, Second Full Week in October
Teen Read Week, Second Full Week in October
National School Lunch Week, Second Full Week in October Monday to Sunday
YWCA Week Without Violence, Second Full Week in October Monday to Sunday
National Food Bank Week, Full Week of October 16th (World Food Day)
Historical Events on October 14th
530 Discorus ends his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
1066 Battle of Hastings of the Norman Conquest In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
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
1529 Sultan Suleiman II ceases Vienna
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656 Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1700 Rabbi Judah Hasid & Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem
1745 French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
1758 Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen of the Seven Years' War, Austrian army beats Prussia
1773 American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
1773 The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland.
1774 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart
1774 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights (Phila)
1805 Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria
1806 Battle of Jena-Auerstädt ,France defeats Prussia
1808 The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1812 Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
1834 1st black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
1834 In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.
1840 Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
1843 The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.
1862 Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18
1862 Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
1863 Battle of Bristoe Station of the American Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia (about 2000 casualties).
1863 Skirmish at Catlett's Station, Virginia (Bristoe Campaign)
1865 Cheyennes & Arapaho's sign "peaces treaty" then chased out Colorado
1867 The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan.
1882 University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
1888 Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1893 George Edwardes "Gaiety Girl" premieres in London
1893 Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa
1901 Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King," premieres in NYC
1905 NY Giants beats Phila A's, 4 games to 1 in 2nd World Series, Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight World Series shutout.
1906 All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series
1908 Baseball Writers Association of America, forms
1908 Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series, 1st rematch, Smallest crowd at World Series, 6,210 fans.
1909 Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series
1910 English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House.
1911 Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
1912 While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster at Cardiff, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives.
1914 German troops occupy Brug
1916 Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.
1916 The Perm State University was founded in Russia.
1920 Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland.
1922 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue NYC
1922 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
1924 Arnold Schoebergs opera "Die Gluckliche Hand," premieres in Vienna
1925 Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
1926 Alan Alexander Milne's book "Winnie-the-Pooh" released
1926 The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.
1926 Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark
1929 Philadelphia A's beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series. A's set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning
1930 Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy"
1930 George Gershwin, Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC
1931 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1931 Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church & State
1933 Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations.
1934 "Lux Radio Theatre" premieres
1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
1938 The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.
1939 BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
1939 German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed
1939 Sugar rationed in Netherlands
1940 Balham tube disaster during the Blitz.
1941 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga
1942 A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.
1942 Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
1942 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1943 Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/pres Jose Laurel)
1943 Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camp's 600 prisoners escape, about 50 survive the war.
1943 U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt.
1944 Allied troops land in Corfu
1944 Athens is liberated by British troops entering the city and the Greek government-in-exile returns, with George Papandreou at its head
1944 British troops march into Athens
1945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears
1946 Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire
1947 Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound (Mach 1.015), the first man to go supersonic in level flight.
1947 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower
1948 Batavia lt-governor-general Of Mook dismissed
1948 Large scale fighting between Israel & Egypt
1949 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
1949 Chinese Red Army occupies Canton (Guangzhou).
1949 Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.
1949 Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison
1951 Det Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs LA Rams
1951 Organization of Central American States forms
1952 "Buttrio Square" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances
1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
1953 Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die
1953 Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr
1953 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia
1953 Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment
1953 WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1956 Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning," premieres in NYC
1956 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Indian Untouchable leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1956 Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open
1957 Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1
1957 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.
1958 Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premieres in London
1958 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community
1958 Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong," premieres in NYC
1958 The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
1958 The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
1959 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
1960 Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
1961 "How to Succeed in Business" opens at 46th St NYC for 1415 perfs
1961 14th Ryder Cup, US wins, 14½-9½ at Royal Lytham & St Annes, England
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
1962 Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17
1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba
1963 Algeria & Morocco border conflict
1963 WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins
1964 Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev.
1964 Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize
1964 Martin Walser's "Der Schwarze Schwan," premieres in Stuttgart
1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV
1964 Roger Maris & Mickey Mantle hit HRs runs on back-to-back pitches
1964 Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts weds Shirley Shepherd
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1965 Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0
1966 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
1966 The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro.
1967 Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California during the Vietnam War.
1968 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
1968 A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby.
1968 Beatles "White Album" completed
1968 First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7.
1968 Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas
1968 In NL expansion draft, Expos & Padres choose 30 players each
1968 Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1977.
1968 The rebuilt Euston railway station in London is opened.
1968 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
1968 The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.
1969 Palme government forms in Sweden
1969 Race riots in Springfield Mass
1969 T Agee & Ed Kranepool HR, Agee makes 2 great catches, Mets win 5-0
1969 The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971.
1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1970 4th Country Music Association Award, Merle Haggard wins
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances
1971 John & Yoko appear on "Dick Cavett Show"
1972 Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats
1973 Egyptian tanks move further into Israel
1973 Judy Rankin wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
1973 Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people, protested in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1973 Willie Mays last hit, as Mets beat A's in World Series game 2 A's Mike Andrews makes 2 errors, prompting owner Finley to remove him
1974 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich
1975 President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside
1976 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30
1976 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
1976 Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
1977 Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series
1977 Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
1978 1st TV movie from a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island"
1978 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1978 Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1
1978 NY Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st & deflects the ball away
1979 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy
1979 Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1979 Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3
1979 NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretzky scores his 1st NHL goal
1979 The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people.
1980 Bob Marley's last concert
1980 Philies rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener
1980 Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court
1981 Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat is assassinated.
1981 Yankee Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
1982 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1982 Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total)
1982 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1982 U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1983 Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard
1983 US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut
1984 "Quilters" closes at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC after 24 performances
1984 Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds
1984 Detroit Tigers beat SD Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series
1984 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Smirnoff Ladies Irish Golf Open
1985 19th Country Music Association Award, Ricky Skaggs wins
1985 On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7
1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
1986 IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule
1986 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Elie Wiesel (against violence/racism)
1986 Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
1987 In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well
1987 St Louis Cards beat SF Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS
1988 Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce & annulment
1988 NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant (Patrick Div Playoff Champs)
1988 Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize
1989 Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consec World Series openers
1989 Texas A&I, Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards
1990 Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship
1990 Jeff Goldblum & wife Geena Davis file for divorce
1990 SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs Atlanta (45-35)
1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize
1991 NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner scores his 500th NHL goal
1992 Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates in 7 games for NL pennant
1992 Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant
1994 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
1995 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)
1996 Braves blow out St Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game
1996 Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)
1996 Packer Chris Jacke kicks longest field goal to end overtime (53 yds)
1997 Florida Marlins beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 1 in NLCS
1998 Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
1998 NY Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak
2012 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria
2013 Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices
2014 Richard Flanagan's novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize
2014 Utah State University receives terrorist threats pertaining to Anita Sarkeesian's planned lecture the following day
2014 World Health Organization announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%
Born on October 14th
1257 King Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296)
1404 Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463)
1493 Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
1499 Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (d. 1524)
1542 Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, 3rd Mogol emperor of India (1556-1605)
1606 Johan Maetsuyker, Dutch governor-general of Ceylon (1653-78)
1630 Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714)
1633 James II Stuart, King of England and Scotland (James VII) (1685-88) (d. 1701)
1639 Simon van der Stel, Dutch governor of Cape colony (1679-99)
1643 Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
1644 William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
1687 Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
1712 George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1763-1765) (d. 1770)
1726 Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813)
1730 Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer
1733 François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
1734 Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer/signer (Decl of Independence)
1738 Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer
1740 Joannes Siberg, Dutch governor-general of Neth Indies (1801-05)
1753 Franz Anton Dimmler, composer
1764 Charles-Henri Plantade, composer
1774 Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, Dutch politician
1784 Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (d. 1833)
1789 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder
1790 Thursday October Christian (d. 1831)
1796 Adolf Ganz, composer
1801 Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (blinded-stared at Sun 25 secs) (d. 1883)
1806 Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865)
1827 James Sidney Robinson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1827 William Harcourt, English lawyer/Min of Finance
1837 Ellison Capers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1908
1840 Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic (d. 1868)
1842 Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
1853 Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (d. 1883)
1855 George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl)
1857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st US autos
1859 Camille Chevillard, composer
1861 Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
1861 Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer
1864 Maurice de Plessys, French poet (Palace Occidental)
1867 Masaoka Shiki, Japan, haiku & tanka poet/diarist (Salt Water Ballads)
1869 Joseph Duveen, British art dealer, connoisseur (Elgin marbles) (d. 1939)
1871 Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman)
1873 Jose Serrano Simeon, composer
1873 Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (d. 1954)
1873 Ray Ewry, American athlete, jumper (Olympics-10 gold-1900, 04, 06, 08) (d. 1937)
1874 Margarete Susman, writer
1880 Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Sak och sken)
1882 Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
1882 Eamon DeValera, Irish politician and patriot, Pres of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59) (d. 1975)
1883 Adrianus de Kleyn, throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor)
1884 Jimmy Conlin, Camden NJ, actor (Sin of Harold Diddlebock)
1888 Ernest Pingoud, composer
1888 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (Aloe, Garden Party) (d. 1923)
1889 Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor
1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general (WW II) and 34th President of the United States (1953-1961) (d. 1969)
1890 Frank Conroy, Derby England, actor (Call of the Wild)
1891 Paul de Keyser, Flemish story teller/philologist/folklorist
1892 Sumner Welles, American diplomat (Good neighbor policy) (d. 1961)
1893 Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
1894 E. E. Cummings, American poet (Tulips & Chimneys) (d. 1962)
1894 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder (Indonesian Communist)
1896 Lillian Gish, silent film/stage actress (Birth of a Nation)
1898 Cruys Voorbergh, Dutch actor/director (Flying Dutchman)
1899 Alan Washbond, US, 2-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
1900 Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)
1900 Edwin McLeod, cricketer (played in NZ's 2nd-ever Test 1930)
1901 Willem A Wagenaar, journalist/writer (Shanghai)
1902 Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
1902 Stanley Coen, cricketer (South African batsman in two Tests 1927-28)
1904 Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995)
1904 Karel Srom, composer
1906 Benita Hume, London England, actress (Vicky-Halls of Ivy)
1906 Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (Origins of Totalitarianism) (d. 1975)
1906 Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
1907 "Red" McKenzie, jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper) [or 1899]
1907 Allan Jones, American actor and singer (A Day at the Races, Showboat) (d. 1992)
1907 Barend Barendse, Dutch sports reporter
1907 Pert Kelton, Great Falls Mont, actress (Cavalcade of Stars)
1908 Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)
1909 Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (Indy 500) (d. 1938)
1909 Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
1909 Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer
1910 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader
1910 John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (UCLA-10 national championships)
1911 Le Duc Tho, North Vietnamese general, representive at Paris peace talk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990)
1912 Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex)
1912 Jack Crapp, English cricketer
1912 Jack Young, English cricketer
1913 Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quick of the 30's who didn't play for Aust)
1913 Victor Trumper Jr, cricketer (son of Mr & Mrs Trumper NSW 1940-41)
1914 Brendan Gill, critic
1914 Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
1914 Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1914 Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
1916 C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General (1981-89)
1918 Doug Ring, cricketer (Australian leggie of the late 40's early 50's)
1918 Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991)
1919 Edward L Feightner, US rear-admiral (WW II-Santa Cruz Islands)
1924 Robert Webber, Santa Ana California, actor (79 Park Avenue)
1925 Louis Cohen, physicist
1925 Phillip Tobias, Durban, Natal, South Africa, palaeoanthropologist and 3 x Nobel Prize nominee(hominid fossil sites), (d. 2012)
1926 Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
1926 Willy Alberti (Carel Verbrugge), singer, actor (Riffin in Amsterdam)
1927 Roger Moore, English actor (Alaskans, Maverick, Saint)
1928 Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (d. 1995)
1928 Gary Graffman, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award)
1929 Alfredo Santos Buenaventura, composer
1929 Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)
1930 Joseph-Desire Kuku Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (1965) (d. 1997)
1930 Robert Parker, US saxophonist/soul singer (Barefootin')
1931 Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
1931 Rafael Puyana, Bogota Colombia, baroque harpsichordist (NY debut 1957)
1932 Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
1932 Dyanne Thorne, American actress
1932 Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
1935 La Monte Young, American composer (Composition in 1990)
1938 Empress Farah Diba of Iran
1938 John W. Dean III, White House counsel , Watergate figure
1938 Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
1939 Hugh Delane Thompson, Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1991 MONY Syracuse)
1939 Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer (Chaps, Polo Ralph Lauren)
1939 Rocky Thompson, American golfer
1940 Christopher Timothy, English actor (All Creatures Great & Small)
1940 Cliff Richard (Harry Webb), Indian singer (Suddenly)
1940 Jesse Carlyle Snead, Hot Springs VA, PGA golfer (1972 Phila Classic)
1940 Pat Finley, Asheville NC, actress (Ellen Hartley-Bob Newhart Show)
1940 Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
1941 Art Shamsky, American baseball player
1941 Jerry Glanville, American football coach
1941 Jim Courter, (Rep-R-NJ, 1979)
1942 Billy Harrison, Belfast Ireland, rock guitarist (Them)
1942 Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (d. 1986)
1943 Anthony Iannaccone, composer
1943 Lance Rentzel, NFL receiver (Minn, LA)/ex-husband of Joey Heatherton
1943 Noreen Corcoran, Quincy Mass, actress (Kelly-Bachelor Father)
1944 Udo Kier, German actress (Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein)
1945 Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake)
1946 Al Oliver, American baseball player
1946 Craig Venter, American biologist
1946 Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth)
1946 James Robert "Radio" Kennedy, American football coach
1946 Justin Hayward, English musician, vocalist (Moody Blues)
1947 Al Atkins, English musician (Judas Priest)
1947 Charlie Joiner, Many La, NFL receiver (Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego)
1947 Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist
1947 Norman Harris, American musician (The Trammps)
1948 David Ruprecht, American game show host
1948 Engin Arik, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
1948 Harry Anderson, American actor
1949 Katha Pollitt, American writer
1949 Katy Manning, English/Australian actress
1950 Joey Travolta, American actor, producer, director and writer
1950 Sheila Young Ochowicz, Birmingham Mich, speed skater (Oly-gold/sil-76)
1951 Marcia Barrett, St Catherine's Jamaica, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 Daisy Eshuijs, singer/pianist/composer (Eye to Eye)
1952 Harry Anderson, American actor (Judge Harry Stone-Night Court)
1952 Margriet Eshuijs, Dutch singer/pianist
1952 Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast (Olympic-4 gold/2 silver/bronze-1976)
1953 Greg Evigan, American actor (BJ-BJ & the Bear, Melrose Place)
1953 Marcel R Zeeuw, Suriname lt-colonel (coup 1982)
1953 Olga Nikolayevna Klyushnikova, Russia, cosmonaut
1953 Roland Butcher, cricketer (1st black to play for England 1981)
1953 Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, writer, singer
1954 Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist
1956 Beth Daniel, American LPGA golfer (1990 Kemper Open)
1957 Gregory T Linteris, Demarest NJ, PhD/astronaut (STS 83, 94)
1957 Karen Permezel, LPGA golfer
1957 Michel Després, Quebec politician
1958 Thomas Dolby, English musician, vocalist (She Blinded Me With Science)
1959 A.J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister)
1960 John Aalberg, Orland Norway, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1960 Steve Cram, English runner (world record mile/2 km)
1961 Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer
1961 Melanie Wilson, actress (Jennifer-Perfect Strangers)
1961 Mike Tramp, Denmark, heavy metal rocker (White Lion-Mane Attraction)
1962 Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
1962 Shahar Perkiss, Israel, tennis star
1963 Keith Byars, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots)
1963 Lori Petty, American actress
1963 Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
1964 David Kaye, Canadian actor
1964 Jim Rome, American sport talk show host
1964 Joe Girardi, American baseball player, catcher and manager (NY Yankees)
1964 Khalid Jabr, Lebanese American, senior information technology professional
1964 Olu Oguibe, American artist
1964 Pieter Axe, soccer player (FC Utrecht/SC Heerenveen)
1965 Constantine Koukias, Australian composer
1965 Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
1965 Karyn White, American singer
1965 Steve Coogan, English actor
1966 Mark Nyman, English Scrabble player
1966 Savanna Samson, American porn star
1967 Arleen Sorkin, actress (Days of Our Lives, America's Funniest Videos)
1967 Dave Hajek, Roseville CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1967 Pat Kelly, American baseball player
1967 Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist
1967 Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1968 Dwayne Schintzius, NBA center (Indiana Pacers)
1968 Gene Williams, NFL guard/tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 Johnny Goudie, American musician
1968 Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
1968 Rashid Latif, cricketer (Pakistani wicket-keeper)
1968 Wanda Guyton, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1969 Christophe Agou, French photographer
1969 David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
1969 Mark Verhoeven, Dutch soccer player (MVV/NEC)
1969 P. J. Brown, American basketball player, NBA center and forward (NJ Nets, Miami Heat)
1970 Daniela Pestova (Chameleon), Czech model (1995 SI/L'Oreal)
1970 Jim Jackson, American basketball player, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, Phila 76ers)
1970 Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor
1970 Nina Kemppel, Anchorage Alaska, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1970 Pär Zetterberg, Swedish football player
1971 Derrick Rodgers, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 Frank Wycheck, NFL tight end (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1971 Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
1972 Erika de Lone, Boston Mass, tennis star (1996 Futures-Wilmington DE)
1972 J J Smith, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1972 Mike Archie, running back (Tennessee Oilers)
1972 Nelson Van waes, CFL defensive linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 Shawn Banks, WLAF LB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 DeJuan Wheat, NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves)
1973 Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
1974 Jessica Drake, American porn star
1974 Joseph Utsler, American musician
1974 Kim Williams, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
1974 Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
1974 Viktor Röthlin, Swiss marathoner
1975 Floyd Landis, American cyclist
1975 Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)
1976 Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion
1976 Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player
1976 Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
1976 Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan Cricketer
1977 Bianca Beauchamp, adult model
1977 Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor
1977 Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
1977 Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter
1978 Javon Walker, American football player
1978 Justin Brannan, American musician, writer
1978 Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
1978 Ryan Church, American baseball player
1978 Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
1978 Usher, American singer and actor
1979 Coty Strickler, Miss Montana Teen USA (1997)
1979 Stacy Keibler, American actress and professional wrestler
1980 Ben Whishaw, English actor
1980 Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
1980 Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 Terrence McGee, American football player
1981 Boof Bonser, American baseball player
1982 Cosmin Curiman, Romanian football player
1982 Ryan Hall, American Olympic Marathoner
1983 Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
1983 Vanessa Lane, American porn star
1984 LaRon Landry, American football player
1985 Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
1985 Daniel Clark, Canadian actor
1985 Digão, Brazilian footballer
1985 Sherlyn González, Mexican actress
1986 Skyler Shaye, American actress
1986 Tom Craddock, English footballer
1988 MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress
1988 Max Thieriot, American actor
1988 Will Atkinson, English footballer
1989 Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
1990 Alexandra Krosney, American actress
1991 Shona McGarty, English actress
1992 Savannah Outen, American singer, songwriter
1996 Lourdes Marie Ciccone Leon, daughter of singer Madonna
Died on October 14th
530 Dioscurus, anti-Pope (530)
1066 Harold II Godwinson, King of England (1066) (b. 1022)
1092 Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated
1092 Nizam al-Mulk, Seljuk vizier (b. 1018)
1256 Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
1318 Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (b. 1280)
1536 Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet/diplomat, dies in battle
1552 Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
1565 Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
1568 Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
1570 Floris van Montmorency, baron of Montigny
1610 Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1619 Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
1637 Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
1660 Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria)
1660 Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
1669 Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)
1703 Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
1711 Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)
1719 Arnold Houbraken, painter/writer)
1746 Francois Fagel, lawyer, statesman
1758 Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
1771 Franz Xaver Brixi, composer
1775 Johann Jacob Rowalt, compose
1790 William Hooper, US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind)
1831 Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
1847 William Michael Rooke, composer
1857 Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer
1872 Albrecht FH, prince of Prussia
1877 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
1879 F Kornberger, writer
1880 Victorio, Apache chief, murderer, killed by Mexican army
1893 Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist
1900 Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter, etcher
1900 Sandor Erkel, composer
1909 Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer
1911 John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
1919 Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner
1923 George Elbridge Whiting, composer
1923 Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession)
1929 Henri Berger, German composer and royal bandmaster (b. 1844)
1930 Sam(uel) van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws)
1943 Jackie Matthews, cricketer (8 Tests 1911-12, 16 wickets)
1944 Erwin Rommel, German fieldmarshal (WW II-Africa), suicide (b. 1891)
1957 Carl Natanael Berg, composer
1958 Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
1958 Jean Poveigh, composer
1959 Errol Flynn, Australian actor (Captain Blood) (b. 1909)
1960 Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal) (b. 1880)
1961 Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
1961 Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)
1965 Randall Jarrell, American poet, novelist, critic, children's author and essayist (b. 1914)
1966 Arcady Dubensky, composer
1967 Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)
1972 Joseph Kaminski, composer
1973 Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier, who fought in Yom Kippur (b. 1929)
1973 Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
1976 Dame Edith Evans, English actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden) (b. 1888)
1977 Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (Going My Way) (b. 1903)
1980 S N Banerjee, cricketer (one Test for India)
1981 Ingemar Liljefors, composer
1983 Paul Fix, actor (Rifleman)
1983 Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist (b. 1887)
1984 Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
1985 Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
1986 Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
1986 (Francis XA) Keenan Wynn, US actor (Dr Strangelove)
1987 Rodolfo Halffter, composer
1988 Mary Morris, actress (Agitator, Double Door)
1989 Michael Carmine, American actor (Batteries Not Included) (b.1959)
1990 Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
1993 Bertie Clarke, cricketer (6 wkts for WI in 1939)
1993 Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered
1993 Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered
1993 Walter Brown Newman, US screenwriter (Cat Ballou)
1994 Gioconda de Vito, violinist
1995 Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael)
1995 Helen Vlachos, journalist
1996 Laura La Plante, screen actress (Show Boat, Scandal)
1996 William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist
1997 Harold Robbins, American novelist (b. 1915)
1998 Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)
1998 Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
1999 Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (b. 1922)
2002 Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
2003 Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)
2004 Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)
2005 Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
2006 Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
2006 Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
2006 Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
2006 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2006 Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
2007 Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
2008 Richard Cooey, American murderer and rapist (executed) (b. 1967)
2009 Captain Lou Albano. American Professional Wrestler and Manager. (b. 1933)
2010 Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born American mathematician (b. 1924)
2010 Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (b. 1952)
2011 Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2012 Kyle Bennett, American BMX racer
2014 Elizabeth Peña, American actress
2015 Mathieu Kérékou, Dictator and President of Benin (1973-91, 1996-2006)