Today in History - October 14

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0530        Oct 14, Dioscurus, anti-Pope (530), died.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1066        Oct 14, King Harold and his army locked into a massive shield wall and faced Duke William, William the Conqueror, and his mounted knights near the town of Hastings, Battle of Hastings. Duke William planned a three point attack plan that included a)heavy archery b)attack by foot soldiers c)attack by mounted knights at any weak point of defense. The bloody battle gave the name Sen Lac Hill to the battle site. The Normans won out after Harold was killed by a fluke arrow. This placed William on the throne of England.
    (AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)

1536        Oct 14, Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet and diplomat, died in battle.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1542        Oct 14, Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, 3rd Mogul emperor of India (1556-1605), was born.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1582        Oct 14, This day was one of ten skipped to bring the calendar into sync. by order of the Council of Trent. Oct 5-14 were dropped.
    (K.I.-365D, p.97)(NG, March 1990, J. Boslough)

1585        Oct 14, Heinrich Schutz, German royal chaplain master and composer (Daphne), was born. [see Oct 8]
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1586        Oct 14, Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth the First. Mary was beheaded in February 1587.
    (AP, 10/14/06)

1631        Oct 14, The ship Our Lady of Juncal set sail from the Gulf coast port of Veracruz, as part of a 19-ship fleet bearing described only as "a valuable shipment of the goods obtained by the king's ministers to feed the Spanish empire." Most of the fleet never made it.
    (AP, 2/17/09)

1633        Oct 14, James II Stuart, king of England and Scotland (James VII) (1685-88), was born.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1644        Oct 14, William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, or Penn's Woods, was born.
    (HN, 10/14/98)

1651        Oct 14, Laws were passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress.
    (HN, 10/14/98)

1705        Oct 14, The English Navy captured Barcelona in Spain.
    (HN, 10/14/98)

1734        Oct 14, Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer and signer of the Declaration of Independence), was born.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1773        Oct 14, Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo was burned at Annapolis, Md.
    (HN, 10/14/98)

1806        Oct 14, The forces of French Emperor Napoleon I defeated the Prussians in the twin battles of Jena and Auerstadt.
    (AP, 10/14/07)

1832        Oct 14, Blackfeet Indians attacked American Fur Company trappers near Montana’s Jefferson River, killing one.
    (HN, 10/14/98)

1871        Oct 14, Alexander von Zemlinsky (d.1942), composer (Schneeman), was born in Vienna, Austria. His work included “Frulingsbegrabnis” (a cantata from 1897), “Die Seejunbfrau” (1902-1903), “Eine Florentinische Tragodie” (an opera from 1914-1915), “Symphonic Songs” (1929), and “Der Zwerg” (The Dwarf, an opera from 1921) and 7 other operas.
    (WSJ, 6/11/98, p.A20)(MC, 10/14/01)
1871        Oct 8-14, In Peshtigo, Wisc., over 1,200 people were killed in the nation’s worst forest fire, which burned across six counties and into Michigan.
    (WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(MC, 10/8/01)

1880        Oct 14, Apache leader Victorio was slain in Mexico by the Mexican army. [see Oct 15]
    (HN, 10/14/98)(MC, 10/14/01)

1882        Oct 14, Eamon DeValera, Taoiseach and President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59), was born in NY.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1884        Oct 14, Transparent paper-strip photographic film was patented by George Eastman. He had invented a flexible paper-backed film that could be wound on rollers. To encourage amateur photography and film sales, Eastman developed a simple black box camera that cost $25 and came already loaded with a 100-exposure roll of film. When the roll was used up, the entire No. 1 Kodak camera was shipped back to Eastman's factory for developing and reloading, at a cost of only $10. Eastman's photographic improvements proved successful, with 13,000 cameras sold in 1888. The roll holder was designed by William Hall Walker. Eastman renamed his corporation the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company.
    (HN, 7/12/99)(HN, 10/14/00)(ON, 3/05, p.11)

1888        Oct 14, Katherine Mansfield, short story writer, was born.
    (HN, 10/14/00)

1890        Oct 14, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States (1953-1961), was born in Denison, Texas.
    (AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)

1894        Oct 14, e.e. cummings (d.1962), American poet, was born. "To be nobody but myself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
    (AP, 10/14/98)(HN, 10/14/98)

1896        Oct 14, Lilian Gish, American actress, was born.
    (HN, 10/14/98)

1899        Oct 14, Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departed for South Africa. Shortly after his arrival he was caught in an ambush and taken prisoner in Pretoria from whence he escaped. In 1999 his granddaughter Celia Sandys authored "Churchill: Wanted Dead Or Alive."
    (WSJ, 12/29/99, p.A12)(MC, 10/14/01)

1901        Oct 14, Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I Were King," premiered in NYC (Francois Villon).
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1905        Oct 14, Eugene Fodor, Hungarian-born travel writer, was born.
    (HN, 10/14/00)

1906        Oct 14, Hannah Arendt, historian (Origins of Totalitarianism), was born in Germany.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1908        Oct 14,  The E.M. Forster novel "A Room With a View" was first published.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
1908        Oct 14, The Chicago Cubs won the World Series as they defeated the Detroit Tigers in Game 5, 2-0, at Bennett Park.
    (AP, 10/14/08)

1911        Oct 14, Le Duc Tho (d.1990), North Vietnamese representative at Paris peace talk (1970-72), was born. He declined the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
    (AP, 10/16/98)(MC, 10/14/01)
1911        Oct 14, John Marshall Harlan (b.1833), US Supreme Court Justice, died after serving 34 years. A memoir written by his wife, Malvina, was later discovered and published in 2002: "Some Memories of a Long Life (1854-1911)"
    (WSJ, 5/28/02, p.D7)(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/44/)
1911        Oct 14, Revolution in China began with a bomb explosion and the discovery of revolutionary headquarters in Hankow. The revolutionary movement spread rapidly through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the last Ch'ing emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi. [see Oct 10]
    (HN, 10/14/98)

1912        Oct 14, Theodore Roosevelt, former president and the Bull Moose Party candidate, was shot at close range by anarchist William Schrenk while greeting the public in front of the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee while campaigning for the presidency. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and still managed to give a 90 minute address in Milwaukee after requesting his audience to be quiet because “there is a bullet in my body.” Schrenk was captured and uttered the now famous words  "any man looking for a third term ought to be shot."
    (WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A10)(AP, 10/14/97)(WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A10)(HN, 10/14/98)(MC, 10/14/01)

1913        Oct 14, An explosion in a coal mine in Cardiff, Wales, killed 439.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1916        Oct 14, C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General (1981-1989), was born.
    (HN, 10/14/00)(MC, 10/14/01)

1918        Oct 14, In France the American 32nd division was sent to engage German troops on the Dame Marie, while the 5th and 42nd Divisions under Gen. Douglas MacArthur swept in pincer movements to occupy Cote de Chatillon. The objectives were taken in 3 days of tough fighting. In 2008 Robert H. Ferrell authored “The Question of MacArthur’s Reputation: Cote de Chatillon, October 14-16, 1918.”
    (WSJ, 11/24/08, p.A17)

1922        Oct 14, The 1st automated telephones began service at the Pennsylvania exchange in NYC.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1926        Oct 14, Son Thomas, blues guitarist and singer, was born.
    (HN, 10/14/00)
1926        Oct 14, The book "Winnie-the-Pooh" by Alan Alexander Milne (d.1956)  was released. Milne wrote this and other stories, centering the tales around his little son, Christopher Robin, and Christopher's stuffed animals, like the honey-loving Pooh Bear, Eeyore (the donkey), Piglet and Tigger. The geography was based on real places in 14,000 acres of Ashdown Forest, in the northwest corner of East Sussex, England.
    (Hem., 8/96, p.107)(MC, 10/14/01)

1927        Oct 14, Roger Moore, actor (Alaskans, Maverick, Saint, 007), was born in London, England.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1930        Oct 14, Robert Parker, US saxophonist  and soul singer (Barefootin'), was born.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1930        Oct 14, Singer Ethel Merman stuns the audience when she held a high C for sixteen bars while singing "I Got Rhythm" during her Broadway debut in Gershwin's Girl Crazy.
    (HN, 10/14/00)

1933        Oct 14, The Geneva disarmament conference broke up as Germany proclaimed withdrawal from the disarmament initiative, as well as from the League of Nations, effective October 23.
    (AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)

1938        Oct 14, John Dean III, former White House counsel (Watergate figure), was born.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1938        Oct 14, Nazis planned Jewish ghettos for all major cities.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1939        Oct 14, Ralph Lauren, fashion designer (Chaps), was born.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1939        Oct 14, The German U-47, commanded by Kapitan Gunther Prien, sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, Scotland, and 833 people were killed. This prompted Churchill to order the creation of concrete barriers at the eastern entrance of Scapa Flow.
    (SFEM, 10/10/99, p.49)(http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hoy/scapa/)

1941        Oct 14, The 1st mass deportations took place at Kovno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1943        Oct 14, US 8th Air Force lost 60 B-17 bombers during assault on Schweinfurt.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1943        Oct 14, In Germany Rev. Max Josef Metzger was sentenced to death for treason by Roland Freisler, chief judge of the Nazi’s People’s Court. He had written a letter to the British government that denounced the Nazis and called for a German state based on Christian democratic and legal principles. He was exonerated by a Berlin court in 1997
    (SFC, 5/3/97, p.A10)
1943        Oct 14, Some 300 of 600 prisoners escaped from the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp in Poland. The event was later documented in the book "Escape from Sobibor" by Richard Rashke (1982) and the film of the same name with Alan Arkin. Josef Vallaster, an Austrian guard, was among 11 SS officers and 11 Ukrainians killed in the escape. Most of the escaped prisoners were killed as they fled. Only 50 prisoners survived the war. Vallaster had operated the motor that funneled gas into Sobibor’s shower rooms.
    (HC, 5/30/98)(SFC, 7/11/03, p.A19)(SSFC, 2/17/08, p.A8)

1944        Oct 14, Allied troops landed in Corfu, Greece.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1944        Oct 14, German Field Marshal Rommel (52), suspected of complicity in the July 20th plot against Hitler, was visited at home by two of Hitler's staff and given the choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chose suicide and it was announced that he died of wounds.
    (AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)

1945        Oct 14, British Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence was elected president of the Int’l. Military Tribunal for the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Drexel A. Sprecher (d.2006), a prosecutor during the trial, later edited the official 15-volume work on the 4-year trial.
    (http://tinyurl.com/pnk7h)(SFC, 4/11/06, p.B5)

1947        Oct 14, Air Force test pilot Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager (24) flew the experimental Bell X-1 [Bell XS-1] rocket plane aircraft and broke the sound barrier to Mach 1.07 for the first time over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., which was then called Muroc Army Air Field. The area has the largest dry lake bed in the world, a 44-square mile area known as Rogers Lake. Suspended from the belly of a Boeing B-29, Glamorous Glennis was dropped at 10:26 a.m. from a height of 20,000 feet. Yeager (who had broken two ribs in a riding accident the night before) fired the four rocket motor chambers in pairs, breaking through the sound barrier as he increased airspeed to almost 700 mph and climbed to an altitude of 43,000 feet. The XS-1 remained at supersonic speeds for 20.5 seconds, with none of the buffeting that characterized high-speed subsonic flight. The 14-minute flight was Yeager's ninth since being named primary pilot in June 1947. The Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (the forerunner of NASA) did not make the event public until Jun 10, 1948.
    (SFC, 8/5/96, p.A3)(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A7)(AP, 10/14/97)(HNPD, 10/14/98)

1948        Oct 14, Large scale fighting took place between Israel and Egypt.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1949        Oct 14, Leaders of the American Communist Party were convicted of conspiracy to advocate the violent overthrow of the US government. They were sentenced with fines and imprisonment.
    (EWH, 1968, p.1207)(MC, 10/14/01)
1949        Oct 14, Pat Valentino (1920-2008), SF boxer, was knocked out by Ezzard Charles in the 8th round at the Cow Palace in a boxing heavy-weight match before a crowd of 19,950.
    (SFC, 8/8/08, p.B5)
1949        Oct 14, The Chinese Red army occupied Canton.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1949        Oct 14, In Czechoslovakia the government assumed full control over Church affairs and required all clergy to swear an oath of loyalty to the state. Most of the lower clergy complied.
    (EWH, 1968, p.1187)

1950        Oct 14, In Washington state westbound traffic opened on the new fortified bridge over the Tacoma Narrows. The new design was approved after a model passed wind tunnel tests designed by engineering Prof. Frederick Burt Farquharson.
    (ON, 6/09, p.8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge)
1950        Oct 14, Chinese Communist Forces began to infiltrate the North Korean Army.
    (HN, 10/14/98)
1950        Oct 14, Rev. Sun Young Moon was liberated from Hung Nam prison (Korea).
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1951        Oct 14, The Organization of Central American States formed.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1953        Oct 14, Ike promised to fire as communists any federal workers taking the 5th amendment.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1953        Oct 14, Ariel Sharon, who had formed the elite Israeli commando unit "101" to fight Palestinian guerrillas, led it in a raid against the Jordanian village of Qibya killing some 70 civilians.
    (SFC, 10/10/98, p.A8)(Econ, 12/16/06, p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibya_massacre)

1954        Oct 14, American Samoa Government's vessel Manu'atele sighted William Willis's raft The Seven Little Sisters, and towed it into Pago Pago Harbor. William Willis (1893-1968) sailed a raft from Peru to Samoa. In 2006 T.R. Pearson authored “Seaworthy: Adrift With William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting.”
    (WSJ, 6/24/06, p.P12)(www.asg-gov.net/026HISTORICALCAL_OCTOBER.htm)
1954        Oct 14, An Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya, Jordan, killed 53.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1955        Oct 14, A new US Navy 6-story, windowless structure was dedicated at the SF Naval Shipyard at Hunters Point, Ca. The $8 million laboratory was to be devoted exclusively to the development of defense against radiation.
    (SFC, 4/8/05, p.F2)

1956        Oct 14, Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning," premiered in NYC.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1957        Oct 14, Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972, former president of the UN General Assembly (1952-1953) and later Canadian PM (1963-1968) won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in defusing the Suez crisis.
    (www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/un_milestones.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/ojxcz)

1958        Oct 14, Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong," premiered in NYC.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1958        Oct 14, Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premiered in London.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1959        Oct 14, Errol Flynn (b.1909), Tasmania-born US actor, died of heart attack. His death ended a 2-year romance with Beverly Aadland (17). They had appeared together in 3 films. His autobiography, “My Wicked, Wicked Ways,” was published shortly after his death and contains humorous anecdotes about Hollywood. According to one literary critic, the book "remains one of the most compelling and appalling autobiographies written by a Hollywood star.”
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn)(SSFC, 10/18/09, DB p.46)

1960        Oct 14, The idea of a Peace Corps was first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan.
    (AP, 10/14/97)

1961        Oct 14, "How to Succeed in Business" opened at 46th St NYC for 1415 performances.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1962        Oct 14, The CIA U-2 mission detected Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. Air Force pilot Maj. Richard Heyser and CIA contract pilot James Barnes Jr. (d.1999 at 70) identified missile sites in separate flights.
    (SFC, 9/17/97, p.A3)(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A19)

1964        Oct 14, Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence.
    (SFC, 10/3/96, p.C6)(AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)
1964        Oct 14, Philips began experimenting with color TV.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1966        Oct 14, 175 US airplanes bombed North Vietnam.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1966        Oct 14, The World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) came into force. It was established under the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Centre_for_Settlement_of_Investment_Disputes)

1968        Oct 14, The Beatles "White Album" was completed at the Abbey Road Studios.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_(album))
1968        Oct 14, The first live telecast from a manned US spacecraft was sent from Apollo 7.
    (AP, 10/14/98)

1970        Oct 14, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Conservatory was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places)

1973        Oct 14, US Air Force "Operation Nickel Grass" began resupply missions to Israel for a full month, until November 14.
    (www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_ykwar_course.php)
1973        Oct 14, In Thailand thousands demonstrated against the military dictatorship and some 77 people were killed.
    (www.prachatai.com/english/news.php?id=531)
1973        Oct 14, In Turkey the CHP replaced the AP as the most popular party, although it did not achieve a parliamentary majority. The CHP and MSP formed a coalition government under Bulent Ecevit. The National Salvation won 11.8% of votes in general elections, winning 48 seats in the 450-member Parliament.
    (http://tinyurl.com/4hkxfc)(AP, 11/4/02)

1975        Oct 14, South Africans secretly launched Operation Savannah when the first of several South African columns (task force Zulu) crossed into Angola from Namibia.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola_(1975-1991))

1976        Oct 14, Deborah Gardner (23) was stabbed (22 times) to death in Tonga by Dennis Priven (24), a fellow Peace Corps volunteer. In 2004 Philip Weiss authored “American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps.”
    (http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2024230.html)

1977        Oct 14, Bing Crosby (b.1903), singer and actor, died on a golf course outside Madrid at age 74. In 2001 Gary Giddins authored “Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years: 1903-1940.”
    (SFC, 11/2/96, p.E4)(AP, 10/14/97)(SSFC, 1/21/01, DB p.33)

1979        Oct 14, In Washington, DC, some 100,000 gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and supporters marched in celebration of gay pride and demanded equal rights for homosexuals under the law.
    (SFC, 10/15/04, p.F13)

1980        Oct 14, Pres. Carter signed the Staggers Act, which deregulated the railroads and allowed them to set their own prices.
    (WSJ, 6/18/96, p.A17)(Econ, 10/30/04, p.69)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggers_Rail_Act)
1980        Oct 14, Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promised that, if elected, he would name a woman to the US Supreme Court. He later nominated Judge Sandra Day O’Connor of Arizona.
    (AP, 10/14/00)
1980        Oct 14, Hambrecht & Quist took Genentech Corp. public at $35 per share which soared to close at $89 per share. 
    (SFC, 6/22/96, p.D1)(http://tinyurl.com/3y3m9r)

1981        Oct 14, Hosni Mubarak, the new president of Egypt, was sworn in to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat. Mubarak pledged loyalty to Sadat's policies.
    (AP, 10/14/06)

1982        Oct 14, Some 6,000 Unification church couples were wed in Korea.
    (www.tparents.org/library/unification/topics/traditn/history-bless.htm)

1983        Oct 14, Cecil Parkinson, British Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, resigned following a highly publicized extra-marital affair.
    (Econ, 10/22/05, p.62)(http://tinyurl.com/bfvue)

1986        Oct 14, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel in the US was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
    (SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/97)

1987        Oct 14, A real-life drama began in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center. Hundreds of rescuers worked 58 hours to free her.
    (AP, 10/14/97)

1988        Oct 14, The US government reported that wholesale prices had risen a moderate 0.4% in September.
    (AP, 10/14/98)

1989        Oct 14, Colombia extradited three suspected drug traffickers to the United States as part of a war on the cocaine cartel.
    (AP, 10/14/99)

1990        Oct 14, Leonard Bernstein (b.1918), American composer and conductor, died in New York City. In 2009 Barry Seldes authored “Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician.”
    (AP, 10/14/97)(Econ, 5/30/09, p.85)

1991        Oct 14, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent promotion of democracy. Her award was accepted by her husband, Michael Aris (d.1999 at 53) and their sons. A collection of her writings is titled "Freedom From Fear."
    (SFC, 5/22/96, p.C-1)(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.D6)(AP, 10/14/01)

1992        Oct 14, The Nobel Prize for chemistry went to American Rudolph A. Marcus; the prize for physics went to George Charpak of France.
    (AP, 10/14/97)
1992        Oct 14, Russia's worst serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, was convicted of mutilating and killing 52 women and children. He was executed in 1994.
    (AP, 10/14/97)

1993        Oct 14, U.S. helicopter pilot Michael Durant and a Nigerian peacekeeper were freed by Somali fighters loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
    (AP, 10/14/98)
1993        Oct 14, In Haiti, gunmen assassinated Justice Minister Guy Malary, a supporter of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
    (SFEC, 10/13/96, p.A15)(AP, 10/14/98)

1994        Oct 14, The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
    (SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/99)
1994        Oct 14, Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was stabbed several times in the neck by a 21-year-old assailant on a Cairo street. Muslim militants were blamed in the attack. The wound resulted in the paralysis of his writing hand.
    (WSJ, 2/20/98, p.A16)(AP, 10/14/04)
1994        Oct 14, Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman, kidnapped on Oct 9, was killed when Israeli commandos raided the hideout of Islamic militants in Jerusalem. An Israeli soldier and 3 kidnappers were also killed in the ensuing firefight. In 2006 his family files suit against Iran for providing training and support to Hamas. In 2009 a US judge awarded a $25 million settlement to the family.
    (AP, 10/14/99)(SFC, 3/28/09, p.A9)

1995        Oct 14, The Atlanta Braves won the National League pennant by beating the Cincinnati Reds, 6-to-0, to complete a four-game sweep.
    (AP, 10/14/00)
1995        Oct 14, An armed gunman seized a bus carrying South Korean tourists in Moscow’s Red Square. Commandos stormed the bus the next day, killing the gunman and freeing four remaining hostages.
    (AP, 10/14/00)

1996        Oct 14, Pop singer Madonna gave birth to a daughter, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon.
    (AP, 10/14/97)
1996        Oct 14, The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 6,000 for the first time, ending the day at 6,010.
    (WSJ, 12/16/96, p.C1)(AP, 10/14/97)
1996        Oct 14, In the US the Archer Daniels Midland Co. agreed to pay an anti-trust fine of $100 million and plead guilty to two charges of price fixing on lysine and citric acid.
    (SFC, 10/15/96, p.A3)(AP, 10/14/97)
1996        Oct 14, In Bolivia bilateral agreements with the US held that 12,000 to 19,000 acres of coca production be eradicated. Failure to do so would cause a suspension of foreign aid and approval of funds from agencies such as the World Bank.
    (SFC, 10/14/96, p.A13)

1997        Oct 14, The Booker Prize for literature went to Indian writer Arundhati Roy for her book: “The God of Small Things.”
    (SFC,10/15/97, p.D4)
1997        Oct 14, The nominal world premiere of the symphonic poem “Standing Stone” by Paul McCartney was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and chorus at Royal Albert Hall.
    (WSJ, 11/18/97, p.A20)
1997        Oct 14, The Florida Marlins won the National League championship, defeating the Atlanta Braves 7-4 in game six.
    (AP, 10/14/98)
1997        Oct 14, Ray Fred Smith (78) and Perry L. Adkinson (68) were awarded the World Food Prize for their work on integrated pest management (IPM).
    (SFC, 10/15/97, p.A15)
1997        Oct 14, Myron Scholes of Stanford, and Robert Merton of Harvard won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on valuing stock options and other investments.
    (SFC, 10/15/97, p.A1)(AP, 10/14/98)
1997        Oct 14, Pres. Clinton met with Brazil’s Pres. Cardoso. They signed an agreement for a partnership to improve education cooperation and a $10 million US contribution to improve conservation in the Amazon.
    (SFC,10/15/97, p.C4)
1997        Oct 14, The US Supreme Court rejected the appeals of those who sought to block the Oregon voter approved law on assisted suicide.
    (SFC, 10/15/97, p.A1)
1997        Oct 14, Harold Robbins, novelist, died at age 81 in Palm Springs, Calif. He wrote “adventure” and “desperation” novels that included: “Never Love a Stranger,” “Carpetbaggers,” Dreams Die First,” “Spellbinder,” “Never Leave Me,” “The Raiders,” and “The Betsy.”
    (SFC,10/15/97, p.C4)(AP, 10/14/98)
1997        Oct 14, In Algeria 54 people were massacred near the main oil and gas center. Four leading human rights organizations called on world leaders to take steps to halt the crises in Algeria.
    (SFC,10/15/97, p.C2)
1997        Oct 14, In Chile an earthquake that measured 6.8 left 8 dead and 100 injured.
    (SFC,10/15/97, p.C3)(WSJ, 10/16/97, p.A1)
1997        Oct 14, Aydin Dikmen (60), Turkish art dealer, was arrested in Germany for selling antiquities plundered from Cyprus since 1974.
    (http://turkeyhumanrights.fw.bz/religion/TurkThief.htm)(AM, 11/04, p.13)
1997        Oct 14, In the Republic of Congo Pres. Lissouba fled the presidential palace in Brazzaville. Premier Bernard Kolelas fled the Republic of Congo when militia fighters loyal to Sassou-Nguesso toppled President Pascal Lissouba.
    (SFC,10/16/97, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/05)
1997        Oct 14, In Rwanda assailants killed 37 people and wounded 14 in the Mutura commune northwest of Kigali.
    (SFC,10/16/97, p.A14)
1997        Oct 14, In Spain a separatist guerrilla group killed a policeman while trying to bomb the new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Jose Maria Aguirre was killed when he helped foil the ETA attack. One of three gunmen, Kepa Arronnategui, was captured.
    (SFC,10/16/97, p.A14)(SFC,10/18/97, p.A10)
1997        Oct 14, On St. Kitts legislators from Nevis voted to withdraw from the federation with St. Kitts.
    (SFC,10/15/97, p.C3)

1998        Oct 14, Amartya K. Sen (64), a philosophy and economics researcher from India, won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in exploring the causes of poverty and famine. He had just left Harvard Univ. to take over Trinity College in Cambridge, England.
    (SFC, 10/15/98, p.A2)(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.B1)
1998        Oct 14, The San Diego Padres won the National League championship over the Atlanta Braves, 5-0, in Game 6 of their championship series.
    (WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A1)(AP, 10/14/99)
1998        Oct 14, The UN for a 7th year called for an end to the US economic embargo against Cuba. Only the US and Israel cast negative votes.
    (SFC, 10/15/98, p.C4)
1998        Oct 14, Cleveland Amory, author and animal rights pioneer, died at age 81 in Manhattan. His work included the trilogy on social history: “The Proper Bostonians,” “The Last Resorts,” and “Who Killed Society.”
    (SFC, 10/16/98, p.D4)(AP, 10/14/99)
1998        Oct 14, Frankie Yankovic (83), the Polka King from Cleveland, died in Tampa, Fla. He played a Slovenian-style polka on the accordion with clarinet and saxophone as opposed to the Polish style which uses the accordion with trumpets and has a faster beat. His hits included “In Heaven There Is No Beer.”
    (SFC, 10/15/98, p.C6)(AP, 10/14/99)
1998        Oct 14, In Canada the finance minister said that the first budget surplus in 28 years would be used to pay down debt, reduce taxes, and invest in health care.
    (WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A1)
1998        Oct 14, China and Taiwan held their first talks since 1993 and said they were working toward reunification.
    (SFC, 10/15/98, p.A12)
1998        Oct 14, In Colombia Saul Albaraz (29), a journalist, was shot to death in Medellin.
    (SFC, 10/16/98, p.D3)
1998        Oct 14, Germany’s new government proposed to scrap the 1913 citizenship law based on blood ties. The coalition agreed to promote controlled distribution of heroin to long-term addicts and to work for expanded rights for gay couples.
    (SFC, 10/15/98, p.A13)
1998        Oct 14, In the Philippines Typhoon Zeb killed 21 people and forced some 31,000 from their homes. The death toll went up to 70. It moved on to Taiwan where 20 people were killed and Japan where 12 died.
    (SFC, 10/15/98, p.C4)(WSJ, 10/19/98, p.A1)
1998        Oct 14, In Russia Premier Primakov said that the government has created a $600 million emergency food reserve.
    (WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A1)
1998        Oct 14, In Serbia police shut down the Danas newspaper, as well as the independent Dvevni Telegraph in Belgrade. NATO positioned warplanes in Italy for a possible attack.
    (SFC, 10/15/98, p.A12)
1998        Oct 14, In Turkey the draft budget was unveiled and it was admitted that IMF targets would not be reached. Inflation for 1999 was targeted to 35% after reaching 100% in early 1998. 1998 growth was measured at 4.5%.
    (WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A20)
1998        Oct 14, In Zimbabwe Pres. Robert Mugabe that he will meet with Kabila to discuss support against the rebels in Congo.
    (SFC, 10/15/98, p.A15)

1999        Oct 14, President Clinton accused Senate Republicans of recklessness and irresponsibility for defeating the nuclear test ban treaty, and pledged the United States would refrain from testing despite the treaty’s rejection.
    (AP, 10/14/00)
1999        Oct 14, At Cape Canaveral, Florida, Launch Complex 41, built in 1945, was destroyed to make way for Atlas V rockets.
    (SFC, 10/15/99, p.A3)
1999        Oct 14, Hurricane Irene drenched Cuba and proceeded to the Florida keys.
    (SFC, 10/15/99, p.D4)
1999        Oct 14, In Bosnia 4 NATO soldiers were injured as they attempted to seize weapons in the divided city of Mostar.
    (SFC, 10/15/99, p.D3)
1999        Oct 14, In Chechnya the Russians pressed an offensive below the Terek River as the Chechens rallied in Grozny.
    (WSJ, 10/15/99, p.A1)
1999        Oct 14, In Indonesia Pres. Habibie gave a speech lauding his accomplishments as security forces fought back demonstrators.
    (SFC, 10/15/99, p.A14)
1999        Oct 14, Israel released 151 Palestinian prisoners as part of the interim peace accord signed Sept. 4.
    (SFC, 10/15/99, p.D3)
1999        Oct 14, Japan’s Sumitomo and Sakura Banks announced merger plans. In 2001 they fused into Sumitomo Mitsui.
    (WSJ, 10/15/99, p.A10)(Econ, 5/20/06, Survey p.22)
1999        Oct 14, Former Tanzanian Pres. Julius Nyerere (77) died in London from a massive stroke. He was called Mwalimu, the Swahili word for teacher.
    (SFC, 10/14/99, p.A14)(SFC, 10/15/99, p.D7)

2000        Oct 14, Angelo Perez Baraquio (24), Miss Hawaii, was crowned Miss America in Atlanta City, NJ.
    (SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A2)
2000        Oct 14, Six San Francisco Bay Area people associated with the Flying Doctors aid group were killed when their plane crashed in Ensenada, Mexico.
    (SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A1)
2000        Oct 14, In Belarus parliamentary elections were held. Authorities hand-picked most candidates and those with known anti-Lukoshenko views were barred from running. The average salary in Belarus was $50 per month.
    (SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A22)
2000        Oct 14, In Indonesia police arrested Alip Agung Suwondo, Pres. Wassid’s masseur, on suspicion of trying to steal $4 million in state funds.
    (SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000        Oct 14, Philippine troops arrested 36 suspected supporters of Abu Sayyaf rebels and 6 others surrendered on Jolo Island.
    (SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000        Oct 14, A London-bound Saudi jetliner was hijacked with over 100 people. It was taken to Syria and then landed in Baghdad where the 2 hijackers were arrested.
    (SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A10)(AP, 10/14/01)
2000        Oct 14, In Somalia Pres. Abdiqasim Salad Hassan returned from Djibouti.
    (SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000        Oct 14, In Switzerland a mudslide in the Alpine village of Gondo left 18 people missing. 13 people were killed.
    (SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A20)(AP, 10/14/01)
2000        Oct 14, In Uganda it was reported that at least 35 people of the northern Gulu district had died in recent weeks of a hemorrhagic fever possibly caused by the Ebola or Marburg virus.
    (SFC, 10/14/00, p.A16)(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A12)

2001        Oct 14, President George W. Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country, saying, "They must have not heard. There's no negotiations."
    (SFC, 10/15/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/14/02)
2001        Oct 14, US warplanes hit Afghanistan targets around Kabul and knocked out the overseas telephone exchange. Bombs also hit the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Heart. Abu Baseer al-Masri, al Qaeda fighter and Egyptian militant, was killed near Jalalabad.
    (SFC, 10/15/01, p.A8)(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A3)
2001        Oct 14, Unions in Minnesota reached a deal with the state to end a walkout by some 23,000 government workers.
    (SFC, 10/15/01, p.E3)
2001        Oct 14, In Argentina Elections for Congress were held. Rev. Luis Farinello led the Social Pole Party with an anti-globalization message. The midterm elections handed a decisive defeat to Pres. Fernando de la Rua’s coalition. The Peronist Party led nationwide results.
    (SFC, 10/12/01, p.D4)(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E3)
2001        Oct 14, An Israeli sniper shot and killed Abed Rahman Hamad, a Hamas leader, hours before the government announced that it would withdraw troops from Hebron and ease Palestinian travel restrictions.
    (SFC, 10/15/01, p.E2)
2001        Oct 14, In Nigeria weekend anti-American protests left 13-200 people dead in Kano.
    (SFC, 10/15/01, p.A5)(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A1)
2001        Oct 14, In Pakistan thousands of Muslims clashed with police in Jacobabad and at least 1 protester was killed.
    (SFC, 10/15/01, p.A3)

2002        Oct 14, The SF Giants won the National League Championship with a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
    (SFC, 10/15/02, p.A1)
2002        Oct 14, President Bush called recent attacks in Kuwait, Indonesia and Yemen part of a grim pattern of terror, and said, "We've got a long way to go" to defeat Osama bin Laden's global network.
    (AP, 10/14/03)
2002        Oct 14, In New Mexico VP Cheney met with representatives of Bajagua, a start-up waste processing firm targeting waste water in Tijuana, Mexico. Waste from Tijuana flowed into San Diego County and its Tijuana River estuary. Bajagua spent $585,000 in lobbying efforts from 2001-2006. Estimates of costs to the US ranged from $580-780 million. A 1999 environmental impact statement called the Bajagua plan not feasible.
    (WSJ, 1/27/06, p.A15)
2002        Oct 14, Linda Franklin (47) of Arlington, Va., was shot in the head and killed as she and her husband loaded packages into their car outside a Home Depot at the Seven Corners Shopping Center. She had worked as an analyst for the FBI.
    (SFC, 10/15/02, p.A1)(AP, 10/15/02)
2002        Oct 14, Britain suspended Northern Ireland's power-sharing government after a spying row threw the fledgling peace process into its worst political crisis since the Good Friday peace accord was signed in 1998.
    (AP, 10/14/02)
2002        Oct 14, A Costa Rica investment operation called The Brothers Fund (Ofinter Foreign Exchange SA) collapsed and siblings Luis Enrique (63) and Osvaldo Villalobos (58) were held responsible.
    (WSJ, 12/13/02, p.A1)
2002        Oct 14, Gen. Adel Labib, gov. of Qena Province in southern Egypt, ordered a ban on shisha (water pipe) smoking.
    (SSFC, 10/27/02, p.F7)
2002        Oct 14, Israeli troops killed 2 Islamic Jihad militants outside Jenin.
    (WSJ, 10/15/02, p.A1)
2002        Oct 14, In Kenya Pres. Moi anointed Uhurru Kenyatta (41), the son of former 1st Pres. Jomo Kenyatta, as his successor. Tens of thousands gathered to protest his decision.
    (SFC, 10/15/02, p.A9)
2002        Oct 14, In Serbia Pres. Kostunica protested that some 630,000 ghost voters inflated the number of voters.
    (SFC, 10/15/02, p.A8)

2003        Oct 14, In Game Six of the National League Championship Series, a Cubs fan inadvertently deflected a foul ball away from the outstretched glove of Chicago outfielder Moises Alou; the Florida Marlins, down 3-0 at the time, rallied to win the game and went on to win Game 7 and advance to the World Series, where they beat the New York Yankees.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2003        Oct 14, The US vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel for building a barrier that cut into the West Bank.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2003        Oct 14, John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder as the first trial in the deadly Washington-area sniper rampage got under way in Virginia Beach, Va. Muhammad was later convicted and sentenced to death for killing Dean Harold Meyers.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2003        Oct 14, It was reported that Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers proposed an elevator reaching 62,000 miles into the sky to launch payloads into space.
    (AP, 10/14/03)
2003        Oct 14, Ben Metcalfe, the 1st chairman of the Greenpeace Foundation (1970), died in BC, Canada.
    (SSFC, 10/19/03, p.A31)
2003        Oct 14, Afghan soldiers backed by U.S. troops and helicopters killed 7 Taliban and captured 12 others during a 2-day raid in southern Afghanistan.
    (AP, 10/15/03)
2003        Oct 14, In Bolivia demonstrations called for the resignation of Pres. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and the death toll grew to 50 after 4 days of clashes. 30,000 marched in La Paz.
    (SFC, 10/15/03, p.A11)(Econ, 10/18/03, p.38)
2003        Oct 14, China's ruling communists closed a secretive 4-day meeting aimed at pushing ahead with market reforms and said a revision to the country's constitution had been endorsed.
    (AP, 10/14/03)
2003        Oct 14, In St. Marc, Haiti, protesters hurled rocks at police and blocked streets with flaming tire barricades for a 2nd day, demanding President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's resignation.
    (AP, 10/14/03)
2003        Oct 14, Across Honduras thousands of protesters blocked streets and burned tires to demand the government not renew a debt-payment agreement with the IMF.
    (AP, 10/14/03)
2003        Oct 14, In Baghdad a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near the Turkish Embassy, killing the driver and wounding more than a dozen others.
    (AP, 10/14/03)
2003        Oct 14, In Liberia businessman Gyude Bryant was sworn in as leader of the post-war government, taking up a 2-year term.
    (AP, 10/14/03)
2003        Oct 14, In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, hundreds took to the streets demanding reforms, the first large-scale protest in this conservative kingdom where demonstrations are illegal.
    (AP, 10/14/03)

2004        Oct 14, The US Treasury reported that the federal deficit surged to $413 billion in 2004.
    (SFC, 10/15/04, p.A3)
2004        Oct 14, NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in a civil suit accused insurance broker Marsh & McLennan of cheating corporate clients. Marsh faces $500 million in penalties.
    (WSJ, 10/27/04, p.C1)(WSJ, 10/28/04, p.C1)
2004        Oct 14, General Motors Europe said it plans to shed 12,000 jobs, almost 20 percent of its work force, in order to halt chronic losses.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, Google Inc. introduced a program that quickly scours hard drives for documents, e-mails, instant messages and past Web searches.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, Light crude oil for November closed in NYC at a record $54.76 per barrel.
    (SFC, 10/15/04, p.C1)
2004        Oct 14, The US Army announced that up to 28 U.S. soldiers face possible criminal charges in connection with the deaths of two prisoners at an American-run prison in Afghanistan two years ago.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, In southern Afghanistan a homemade bomb killed 2 American soldiers and wounded 3 others.
    (AP, 10/16/04)
2004        Oct 14, In Brazil Pres. da Silva signed an executive order permitting farmers to plant genetically modified soybeans.
    (SFC, 10/16/04, p.A3)
2004        Oct 14, In Cambodia Prince Norodom Sihamoni, retiring King Norodom Sihanouk's son, a former ballet dancer and U.N. cultural ambassador, was officially confirmed to succeed his father on the throne.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, In Chile Cardinal Juan Francisco Fresno (90) died. He played a key role in efforts to restore democracy in Chile during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
    (AP, 10/15/04)
2004        Oct 14, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder arrived in Libya for an official visit during which he is to hold talks with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, Insurgents struck deep inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, setting off bombs at a market and a popular cafe that killed at least 10 people, including four Americans.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, In Iraq up to 19 members of the 343rd Quartermaster Company were detained for refusing to deliver fuel under conditions that they deemed unsafe.
    (SFC, 10/16/04, p.A1)
2004        Oct 14, A video that appeared on an Islamic Web site showed militants in Iraq beheading a man identified as a kidnapped Turkish driver.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, Israel’s PM Ariel Sharon said all 8,200 Jewish settlers will be pulled out of the Gaza Strip starting next summer.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan began.
    (SFC, 10/14/04, p.A3)
2004        Oct 14, Nigerian unions called off a general strike which had jeopardized oil supplies from the world's seventh largest exporter for four days.
    (Reuters, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, Pakistan's lower house of parliament passed a bill to allow President Pervez Musharraf to stay on as army chief despite his pledge to give up the job by the end of the year.
    (Reuters, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, Pakistani special forces attacked kidnappers holding two Chinese engineers near the Afghan border, killing all five of the al-Qaida-linked militants. One of the hostages was killed in the raid, while the other survived.
    (AP, 10/14/04)
2004        Oct 14, Thousands of Paraguayans took to the streets to protest increasing crime, spurred on the two high-profile kidnappings.
    (AP, 10/15/04)

2005        Oct 14, The US Treasury Department reported that the federal deficit hit $319 billion for the budget year just ended, down from the previous year, but still the third highest.
    (AP, 10/14/06)
2005        Oct 14, Rain fell for an eighth straight day around the waterlogged Northeast US, pushing people from their homes in the middle of the night and leaving train tracks littered with fallen trees.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, Dernae Wysinger (22) and his 2-year-old son were shot to death in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill district. Police soon issued an arrest warrant for suspect Joseph Stevens (22). This marked the 64th and 65th homicides in SF this year. In 2007 Stevens (23) was convicted for the murders, which were apparently done in retaliation for another slaying.
    (SSFC, 10/16/05, p.B1)(SFC, 3/21/07, p.B3)
2005        Oct 14,  Blond, blue-eyed British actor Daniel Craig was named the new James Bond.
    (AP, 10/14/06)
2005        Oct 14, Insurgents staged a series of attacks, killing a pro-government cleric, two police and blowing up eight fuel tankers parked outside a US-led coalition base in southern Afghanistan.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, Bulgaria adopted a new penal procedure to remedy a judiciary system that has been criticized for failing to jail well-known criminals.
    (AP, 10/26/05)
2005        Oct 14, Lucio Gutierrez, former Ecuador president who was ousted from office, returned to Ecuador in a bid to regain power, but he was arrested moments after his plane landed.
    (AP, 10/15/05)
2005        Oct 14, Sunni insurgents launched five attacks against the largest Sunni Arab political party on the eve of Iraq's crucial referendum, bombing and burning offices and the home of one of its leaders in retaliation after the group dropped its opposition to the draft constitution.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, Italy's culture industry pledged to shut down theaters, cinemas and cancel concerts throughout the country for the day to protest planned cuts to the art budget.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, Italy’s Alitalia airline, 62.3% owned by the government, approved a revised corporate plan for 2005-2008.
    (Econ, 10/22/05, p.70)
2005        Oct 14, Dutch police detained seven suspects in an anti-terrorism operation in three cities, including the capital, aimed at thwarting a suspected plot to attack politicians and a government building.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, A consortium led by South Africa’s Sheltam Trade Close won the privatization bid for the rail line linking Mombassa, Kenya, and Kampala, Uganda. Nicknamed since 1895 as the “lunatic express,” it was renamed the Rift Valley Railways.
    (Econ, 10/22/05, p.68)
2005        Oct 14, In Nicaragua Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega announced that he has broken a political pact with opponents of President Enrique Bolanos, a move that could end a political crisis that threatened the country's presidency.
    (AP, 10/15/05)
2005        Oct 14, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, In Nalchik Russian security forces in an armored personnel carrier smashed through the wall of a store to rescue two hostages held by suspected Islamic militants as authorities tried to clear out the last pockets of rebel resistance after more than a day of fighting that killed 139 people including 92 militants.
    (AP, 10/14/05)(WSJ, 10/17/05, p.A1)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.25)
2005        Oct 14, Somalia's PM Ali Mohamed Gedi called on neighboring countries to send warships to patrol his nation's waters after pirates seized a 3rd cargo vessel delivering food aid.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, At the Ibero-American Summit in Spain UN Sec.-General Kofi Annan called for greater progress in trade talks on farming.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, A Turkish court convicted two brothers for the "honor killing" of their sister and sentenced one to life in prison and the other to more than 11 years behind bars.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed Ukraine's top prosecutor less than a week after he launched investigations against a presidential ally, deepening the confusion in the former Soviet republic.
    (AP, 10/14/05)
2005        Oct 14, A researcher said bird flu virus found in a Vietnamese girl was resistant to the main drug that's being stockpiled in case of a pandemic, a sign that it's important to keep a second drug on hand as well.
    (AP, 10/14/05)

2006        Oct 14, Pres. Bush dedicated the new $30 million US Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va. The memorial, designed to evoke the “bomb-burst maneuver of the Thunderbirds, was the last major work of architect James Ingo Freed (d.2005).
    (SSFC, 10/15/06, p.A16)
2006        Oct 14, The Detroit Tigers won the American League baseball pennant race in 4 games over Oakland, Ca.
    (SSFC, 10/15/06, p.A1)
2006        Oct 14, Freddy Fender (b.1937), Tex-Mex singer born as Baldemar Huerta, died in San Benito, Texas. His hit songs included “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” and “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (1975).
    (SFC, 10/16/06, p.B6)
2006        Oct 14, Former US Rep. Gerry Studds (69) died at Boston Medical Center, several days after he collapsed while walking his dog. He was the first openly gay person elected to Congress (1972-1997).
    (AP, 10/14/06)
2006        Oct 14, In Bonaparte, Iowa, Shawn Bentler (22) killed his parents and 3 sisters (14,15,17) at their home.
    (SFC, 10/16/06, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/07)
2006        Oct 14, In southern Afghanistan Gabriele Torsello, an Italian freelance photographer, and his Afghan translator were abducted were abducted by five armed men. In eastern Afghanistan a roadside bomb exploded outside a provincial governor's compound. The governor was not hurt but another official was killed.
    (AP, 10/14/06)(AP, 10/15/06)
2006        Oct 14, French leader Jacques Chirac told Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan he is sorry French lawmakers approved a bill making it a crime to deny Armenians were victims of genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks.
    (Reuters, 10/15/06)
2006        Oct 14, in southwestern Germany 2 female US soldiers died after they were hit by a train at Neckarsteinach station, east of Heidelberg.
    (AP, 10/15/06)
2006        Oct 14, Thousands of low-caste Hindus converted to Buddhism and Christianity on in protest against new laws in several Indian states that make such changes of religion difficult.
    (Reuters, 10/14/06)
2006        Oct 14, A spokesman said the ministry in charge of Iraq's police force will change top commanders and has already fired some 3,000 employees accused of corruption or rights abuses. Suspected Shiite militiamen killed at least 27 Sunni Arabs in Balad in apparent retaliation for the slayings of 17 Shiites, whose decapitated bodies were found in an orchard on the town's outskirts a day earlier. South of Baghdad three women and four men were killed in drive-by shootings in the predominantly Shiite village of Wahda. A US Marine was killed in combat in Anbar province. 3 US soldiers died in a roadside bombing south of Baghdad.
    (AP, 10/14/06)(AFP, 10/14/06)(AP, 10/15/06)(SSFC, 10/15/06, p.A20)
2006        Oct 14, Israeli troops killed six Palestinian gunmen in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip and set up a makeshift detention center just outside the territory.
    (AP, 10/14/06)
2006        Oct 14, Two Italian tourists, freed in Libya after being kidnapped in August in Niger, denounced their captors as bandits and said they were mistreated during their ordeal.
    (AP, 10/14/06)
2006        Oct 14, The UN election chief in Ivory Coast said the war-divided nation's long-delayed vote would be postponed for another year and should be held before October 2007.
    (AP, 10/14/06)
2006        Oct 14, In Mexico at least one man opened fire on protesters manning a roadblock in Oaxaca paralyzed by months of conflict, killing one demonstrator and wounding another.
    (AP, 10/15/06)
2006        Oct 14, In northwestern Spain vandals freed over 15,000 minks from breeding farms.
    (SFC, 10/16/06, p.A3)
2006        Oct 14, The Sudanese government signed a peace deal with a group of rebels from eastern Sudan, ending a deadly strife that has been overshadowed by the conflict in the country's western Darfur region.
    (AP, 10/14/06)
2006        Oct 14, Maria Borelius, Sweden's trade minister, resigned over allegations of tax evasion after just one week in office, saying media pressure has made her life impossible.
    (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6051220.stm)
2006        Oct 14, Thailand's military-installed premier Surayud Chulanont visited Vientiane on the first stop of a weekend tour aimed at reassuring neighbors Laos and Cambodia that Bangkok won't pull any more surprises.
    (AFP, 10/14/06)
2006        Oct 14, Ukrainian nationalist fighters who battled both Soviet and Nazi forces during World War II rallied in their country's capital, demanding the same financial and moral recognition as Red Army veterans.
    (AP, 10/14/06)
2006        Oct 14, The UN Security Council gave unanimous approval to sanctions against North Korea for its purported nuclear test. The US-sponsored resolution demanded that North Korea eliminate nuclear weapons, but expressly rules out military action against the country.
    (AP, 10/15/06)

2007        Oct 14, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opened an intense round of Mideast shuttle diplomacy.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2007        Oct 14, In California Gov. Schwarzenegger signed legislation banning toys that contain toxic plastic softeners, i.e. phthalates, becoming the first state in the US to do so.
    (SFC, 10/16/07, p.A1)
2007        Oct 14, In southern Afghanistan a mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family's home that killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings.
    (AP, 10/15/07)
2007        Oct 14, In Egypt at least six people drowned and 15 others were reported missing after the gangplank on their Nile ferry collapsed.
    (AFP, 10/14/07)
2007        Oct 14, In a northern Indian an explosion ripped through a crowded cinema, killing at least five people in the industrial city of Ludhiana. The area around the Shingar Cinema has a large Muslim population. At least 12 Hindu devotees were trampled to death on a narrow path crowded by thousands heading to a temple in western India. Another eight people were injured.
    (Reuters, 10/14/07)(AP, 10/14/07)
2007        Oct 14, A parked car bomb struck worshippers heading to a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people with 18 injured as Iraqis celebrated the end of Ramadan. An Iraqi soldier was killed and four others were wounded when a roadside bomb targeted their patrol in Khan Bani Saad, just northeast of Baghdad. Near the southern town of Hilla, a police officer was fatally shot by gunmen from a speeding car. Salih Saif Aldin (32), an Iraqi journalist who was shot while on assignment for The Washington Post in Baghdad. A US soldier died from a roadside bomb during combat operations in southern Baghdad.
    (AP, 10/14/07)(SFC, 10/15/07, p.A14)
2007        Oct 14, In Italy projections showed Rome's mayor overwhelmingly winning a nationwide primary to become the leader of a new center-left party and the probable candidate for premier against conservative billionaire Silvio Berlusconi in the next general election.
    (AP, 10/14/07)
2007        Oct 14, Myanmar's ruling junta restored Internet access but kept foreign news sites blocked, partially easing its crackdown as a UN envoy headed to Asia to convey the world's demands for democratic reforms in the country.
    (AP, 10/14/07)
2007        Oct 14, Indian PM Manmohan Singh arrived in the Nigerian capital Abuja in the first state visit by an Indian premier to the oil-rich west African state in 45 years.
    (AP, 10/15/07)
2007        Oct 14, Serb and Kosovo Albanian officials agreed on a new round of talks later this month to try to break a deadlock over the future of the breakaway Serb province.
    (AP, 10/14/07)
2007        Oct 14, Former rebels from south Sudan delivered a letter to Khartoum detailing their demands for resolving a crisis sparked by the southerners' pullout from the unity government.
    (AP, 10/14/07)
2007        Oct 14, Togolese voted in legislative elections that no opposition members boycotted for the first time in nearly a decade, a hopeful sign for democracy in this West African nation that has been ruled by one family for 40 years.
    (AP, 10/15/07)
2007        Oct 14, Opiyo Makasi, reported to be an operations and logistics commander of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, gave himself up along with his wife and they were transferred to Kinshasa, DRC. On Oct 25 Congolese authorities handed him to the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUC), which should prepare his eventual return to Uganda.
    (AP, 10/23/07)(AP, 10/25/07)

2008        Oct 14, President Bush announced a $250 billion plan by the government to directly buy shares in 9 of the nation's leading banks, saying the drastic steps were "not intended to take over the free market but to preserve it." Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said the US housing sector faced more losses and the economy was in recession even as authorities moved to stabilize the financial system.
    (Reuters, 10/14/08)(AP, 10/14/08)(WSJ, 10/14/08, p.A1)
2008        Oct 14,  The US Treasury revised the 2008 fiscal deficit to $455 billion, as opposed to the $389 billion projected in July. The national debt, at 38% of GDP, was well below the 1990s peak of 49%.
    (Econ, 10/18/08, p.41)(Econ, 10/25/08, p.40)
2008        Oct 14, Key lending rates between banks in the US and Europe continued to fall slowly in response to combined pledges from governments to inject money into banks and guarantee their debt. But rates remained abnormally high, a sign of the stress in the world financial system.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, A wildfire in northern Los Angeles covered 13,285 acres.
    (SFC, 10/15/08, p.B6)
2008        Oct 14, Ohio executed Richard Cooey (41), a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer (1986), who had argued that his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, Gray wolves in the northern US Rocky Mountains returned to the endangered species list, thanks to a court victory by environmental groups over the US government [see Mar 28, 2008].
    (AFP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, Reymundo Guerra, sheriff of rural Starr County, Texas, next to the Mexican border, was arrested at his office after being indicted on charges alleging he was involved in a large-scale cocaine and marijuana smuggling operation.
    (AP, 10/15/08)
2008        Oct 14, In eastern Afghanistan a roadside bomb blast killed three NATO soldiers. In the south, a bomb attack apparently intended for NATO troops exploded against an Afghan minivan in Uruzgan province, killing nine civilians. Dost Mohammad Arighistani, head of the government's labor and social affairs department for the southern province of Kandahar, was killed in his car with his bodyguard as he traveled to work. Taliban militants attacked police checkpoints ringing Lashkar Gah. 18 militants were killed and three police wounded. 6 policemen died after a shootout among officers inside a police checkpoint about 15 miles north of Lashkar Gah.
    (AP, 10/14/08)(AFP, 10/14/08)(AP, 10/15/08)
2008        Oct 14, The prosecution office of Bosnia's war crimes court said it ordered the arrest of Milorad Skrbic, 48; Milorad Radakovic, 46; Gordan Djuric, 40; and Ljubisa Cetic, 39, for allegedly having participated in 1992 in the wartime execution of 200 civilians.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, Indian author Aravind Adiga (b.1974) won the 2008 Booker Prize with his first novel: “The White Tiger.” The book follows Balram Halwai, the son of a rickshaw puller, who dreams of better things than life as teashop worker and driver.
    (AFP, 10/15/08)
2008        Oct 14, Burundi said it has completed its deployment of another 850 soldiers to Somalia, bringing to about 3,400 the total number of African Union peacekeepers stationed there. Burundi had already deployed some 850 soldiers to Somalia as part of AMISOM (African mission in Somalia).
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, Canadians voted in an election. Conservative PM Stephen Harper, the first Western leader to face the electorate since the start of the international economic meltdown, won reelection with a bolstered minority government. Some 59.1% of eligible Canadian voters went to the polls, breaking the previous record low turnout of just under 61% in 2004. The Liberal share of the popular vote fell to 26%.
    (AP, 10/14/08)(Reuters, 10/15/08)(Econ, 10/18/08, p.47)
2008        Oct 14, China unveiled a plan to achieve universal health care. The plan hoped to cover 90% of the population within 2 years and achieve universal health care by 2020. State media reported that a ginseng injection contaminated by bacteria caused the deaths of three people using the medicine to treat thrombosis and heart disease.
    (http://tinyurl.com/5f6fyb)(WSJ, 10/20/08, p.A12)(AP, 10/15/08)
2008        Oct 14, The UN said intense fighting between the Congolese army and Ugandan rebels have forced over 50,000 people to flee their homes in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ituri region.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, Egyptian police shot dead an African migrant and wounded another as they tried to cross illegally into Israel.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, An Ethiopian minister said his country urgently needs US$265 million to feed 6.4 million people affected by drought.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, Iceland's blue chip stocks plunged 77 percent when trading reopened on after a near week-long suspension and an official delegation from the island sought Russian help in saving the economy from collapse.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, In north and northeastern India a series of road accidents killed at least 48 people and injured another 64. 43 of the dead died in 2 bus crashes.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, The Israeli military troops in the West Bank shot a Palestinian as he prepared to lob a blazing Molotov cocktail into a Jewish settlement north of Jerusalem. Troops found another 10 firebombs at the scene ready to be ignited.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, North Korea resumed steps to disable its nuclear reactor under renewed monitoring, after a deal with Washington to save the disarmament process from collapse.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, The Hamas government announced that it will not permit thousands of striking teachers to return to their jobs, further heightening tensions with its political rivals in the West Bank. Despite the August 24 strike, Hamas kept schools running and hired some 2,200 new teachers and administrators.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, The Philippine Supreme Court threw out a proposed accord to grant minority Muslims expanded autonomy after Christian protests and renewed fighting convinced the government to abandon the deal. The accord would have expanded an existing six-province Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao, subject to the agreement of local residents.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, Off the Somali coast a Panamanian-flagged vessel and its 11 crew members, nine Syrians and two Somalis, were freed after a gunbattle in which one Puntland soldier was killed and three wounded. The 10 pirates, who had held the ship since Oct 9, surrendered when they ran out of ammunition.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, The World Conservation Congress ended in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting was awash in gloomy forecasts.
    (Econ, 10/18/08, p.68)
2008        Oct 14, In Sri Lanka government forces pounded rebel defenses with airstrikes and ground assaults. Heavy fighting across the north killed 49 Tamil Tiger fighters and 7 soldiers. TamilNet reported that 3 soldiers were killed in the government–controlled east.
    (AP, 10/15/08)(SFC, 10/15/08, p.A5)
2008        Oct 14, Syria established diplomatic relations with Lebanon, ending six decades of non-recognition of its neighbor's sovereignty in an apparent bid to curry favor with the West as it pursues indirect peace talks with Israel.
    (AP, 10/14/08)
2008        Oct 14, The UN Security Council voted unanimously to renew its peacekeeping mission in Haiti for another year.
    (AP, 10/15/08)

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