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October 14

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Cuban Missile Crisis

64 years ago

Born this day

1890

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Would be 136

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960th

Battle of Hastings

event anniversary

Famous births27

1420 · 606 yrs

Tomás de Torquemada

Tomás de Torquemada (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.

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ReligionDied aged 77

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1633 · 393 yrs

James II of England

James II and VII (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from February 1685 until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution.

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1644 · 382 yrs

William Penn

William Penn (24 October 1644 – 10 August 1718) was an English writer, theologian, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania.

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BusinessDied aged 73

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1784 · 242 yrs

Ferdinand VII of Spain

Ferdinand VII (Spanish: Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was King of Spain and the Indies during the early 19th century, and king of the Spains during the Spanish liberal period.

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RoyaltyDied aged 48

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1873 · 153 yrs

Jules Rimet

Jules Ernest Séraphin Valentin Rimet (French:; 14 October 1873 – 16 October 1956) was a French football administrator who was the 3rd president of FIFA, serving from 1921 to 1954. He is FIFA's longest-serving president, in office for 33 years.

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LawDied aged 83

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1880 · 146 yrs

Andrei Bely

Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Буга́ев, IPA:; 26 October 1880 – 8 January 1934), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely, was a Russian and Soviet novelist, Symbolist poet, theorist and literary critic. He was a committed anthroposophist and follower of Rudolf Steiner.

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1882 · 144 yrs

Éamon de Valera

Éamon de Valera (14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was an Irish statesman. He served as the president of Ireland from 1959 to 1973, and three terms as head of government.

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1888 · 138 yrs

Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.

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1890 · 136 yrs

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961.

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1893 · 133 yrs

Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress best known for her work in movies of the silent era. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987.

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1894 · 132 yrs

Heinrich Lübke

Karl Heinrich Lübke (German:; 14 October 1894 – 6 April 1972) was a German politician, who served as president of West Germany from 1959 to 1969. He suffered from deteriorating health towards the end of his career and is known for a series of embarrassing incidents that may have resulted from his health issues.

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1894 · 132 yrs

E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

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Famous deaths14

1944 · 82 yrs

Erwin Rommel

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (pronounced; 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), known as The Desert Fox (German: Der Wüstenfuchs, pronounced ), was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II.

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1959 · 67 yrs

Errol Flynn

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian and American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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1977 · 49 yrs

Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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1984 · 42 yrs

Martin Ryle

Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources.

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1990 · 36 yrs

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein ( BURN-styne; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim.

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1999 · 27 yrs

Julius Nyerere

Julius Kambarage Nyerere (Swahili:; 13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, revolutionary and political theorist.

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2010 · 16 yrs

Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life".

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2012 · 14 yrs

Norodom Sihanouk

Norodom Sihanouk (31 October 1922 – 15 October 2012) was King, Chief of State and Prime Minister of Cambodia. He is known as Samdech Euv (meaning "King Father") or by his nickname The Pink Prince.

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2015 · 11 yrs

Mathieu Kérékou

Mathieu Kérékou (French pronunciation:; 2 September 1933 – 14 October 2015) was a Beninese politician and revolutionary who served as president of the People's Republic of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and the Republic of Benin from 1996 to 2006.

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2018 · 8 yrs

Milena Dravić

Milena Dravić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милена Дравић, pronounced; 5 October 1940 – 14 October 2018) was a Yugoslavian and Serbian film, television and theatre actress.

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2019 · 7 yrs

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world".

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2019 · 7 yrs

Sulli

Choi Jin-ri (Korean: 최진리; March 29, 1994 – October 13 or 14, 2019), known professionally as Sulli, was a South Korean singer and actress. She first made her debut as a child actress, appearing as a supporting cast member on the SBS historical drama Ballad of Seodong (2005).

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Events5

1066 · 960 yrs

Battle of Hastings

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

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War

1806 · 220 yrs

Battle of Jena–Auerstedt

The Battle of Jena–Auerstedt was fought on Tuesday 14 October 1806, near Jena and Auerstedt (then in the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar and Kingdom of Prussia, now in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany), being the decisive engagement of the War of the Fourth Coalition.

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War

1809 · 217 yrs

Treaty of Schönbrunn

The Treaty of Schönbrunn (French: Traité de Schönbrunn), sometimes known as the Peace of Schönbrunn (German: Friede von Schönbrunn) or the Treaty of Vienna (German: Wiener Frieden), was signed between France and Austria at Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna on 14 October 1809.

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Politics

1920 · 106 yrs

Treaty of Tartu

The Treaty of Tartu (Russian: Тартуский мирный договор; Finnish: Tarton rauha; Swedish: Fredsfördraget i Dorpat) was signed on 14 October 1920 between Finland and Soviet Russia after negotiations that lasted nearly five months.

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Politics

1962 · 64 yrs

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre), or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles…

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