What are the important events that happened on October 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 14 is the 288^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 1, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 480,240 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctacontaoctagon’ day.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 107 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,315 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 14 Historical Events

• 1066 –
  Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
• 1586 –
  Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
• 1812 –
  Work on London’s Regent’s Canal starts.
• 1938 –
  The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company’s P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
• 1947 –
  Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
• 1949 –
  Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
• 1968 –
  An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
• 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”, and draws 200,000 people.
• 1981 –
  Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
• 1998 –
  Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Who were born on October 14?

• 1499 –
  Claude of France, wife of Francis I of France (d. 1524)
• 1861 –
  Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
• 1906 –
  Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975)
• 1941 –
  Art Shamsky, American baseball player
• 1959 –
  A.J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister)
• 1969 –
  Christophe Agou, French photographer
• 1970 –
  Jim Jackson, American basketball player
• 1971 –
  Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
• 1977 –
  Jeff Garcia, American voice actor
• 1988 –
  MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress

Who died on October 14?

• 1568 –
  Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
• 1758 –
  Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
• 1977 –
  Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
• 1983 –
  Johannes O., Dutch murderer (b. 1916)
• 1989 –
  Michael Carmine, American actor (b.1959)
• 2000 –
  Art Coulter, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• 2002 –
  Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
• 2005 –
  Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
• 2006 –
  Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
• 2011 –
  Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948)