OCTOBER 14th

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1066	Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
1890	Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, was born in Denison, Texas.
1933	Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944	German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947	Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier 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.
1968	The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1977	Singer Bing Crosby died at age 74.
1979	Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of his National Hockey League record 894 goals in a home game against the Vancouver Cancucks.
1986	Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990	Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died at age 72.
1991	Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1998	Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
2002	An FBI analyst was killed in a mall parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in a shooting linked to the Washington-area sniper.
2003	John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder in the Washington-area sniper case. (He was later convicted and sentenced to death.)
2004	A suicide bomber killed four Americans in the U.S.-guarded "Green Zone" in Baghdad.
2006	The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test