• Oct 14 1939

    86 Years ago

    German U-Boat Unterseeboot 47 (1938) sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak (1914).


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  • Oct 14 1933

    92 Years ago

    Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.


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  • Oct 14 1926

    99 Years ago

    The children's literature ''Winnie-the-Pooh'', by A.A. Milne, is first published.


  • Oct 14 1925

    100 Years ago

    Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)


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  • Oct 14 1920

    105 Years ago

    Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland.


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  • Oct 14 1916

    109 Years ago

    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.


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  • Oct 14 1916

    109 Years ago

    The Perm State University was founded in Russia.


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  • Oct 14 1913

    112 Years ago

    Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives.


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  • Oct 14 1912

    113 Years ago

    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.


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  • Oct 14 1910

    115 Years ago

    English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue) near the White House.


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  • Oct 14 1888

    137 Years ago

    Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: ''Roundhay Garden Scene''.


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  • Oct 14 1884

    141 Years ago

    George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.


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  • Oct 14 1882

    143 Years ago

    University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.


  • Oct 14 1867

    158 Years ago

    The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan.


  • Oct 14 1863

    162 Years ago

    American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station - Confederate States of America General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.


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  • Oct 14 1843

    182 Years ago

    The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.


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  • Oct 14 1840

    185 Years ago

    Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.


  • Oct 14 1834

    191 Years ago

    In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Whig Party (United States) and Democratic Party (United States) 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.


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  • Oct 14 1812

    213 Years ago

    Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.


  • Oct 14 1806

    219 Years ago

    Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia


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