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 287th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 1, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,340,000 minutes 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 ‘dihectaoctacontaheptagon’ day.
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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 126 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 4,680 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 14 Historical Events
- 222 –Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome’s Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I.
- 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.
- 1773 –The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1908 –The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
- 1912 –While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
- 1938 –The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company’s P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
- 1956 –Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
- 1968 –Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called “ten-second barrier” in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
- 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 –Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
Who were born on October 14?
- 1404 –Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463)
- 1639 –Simon van der Stel the last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony, the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa (d. 1712)
- 1918 –Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991)
- 1964 –Jim Rome, American sports talk show host
- 1977 –Barry Ditewig, Dutch football goalkeeper
- 1982 –Cosmin Curiman, Romanian football player
- 1988 –Pia Toscano, American Singer
- 1989 –Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
- 1990 –Alexandra Krosney, American actress
- 1991 –Shona McGarty, English actress
Who died on October 14?
- 1256 –Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
- 1961 –Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)
- 1983 –Johannes O., Dutch murderer (b. 1916)
- 1986 –Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
- 1997 –Harold Robbins, American novelist (b. 1915)
- 2002 –Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
- 2006 –Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
- 2010 –Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born American mathematician (b. 1924)
- 2010 –Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (b. 1952)
- 2011 –Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
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