October 14
1066 - The Normans, under William the Conqueror, defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
1586 - Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I. (Mary was beheaded in February 1587.)
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and World War II general, was born in Denison, Texas.
1933 - Nazi Germany withdrew from the Geneva disarmament conference and the League of Nations.
1939 - A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 - Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1960 - Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan.
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in civil rights.
1964 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
1968 - The first live telecast from a staffed U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1977 - Singer Bing Crosby died at age 73.
1986 - Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 - A 58-hour drama began in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center.
1990 - Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.
2001 - As U.S. jets opened a second week of raids in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country.
2006 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
2008 - A grand jury in Orlando, Florida returned charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter against Casey Anthony in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. (She was acquitted in July 2011.)
2011 - President Barack Obama cast himself as a savior of the U.S. auto industry as he stood in a once-shuttered Michigan assembly plant with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to boast of a new trade deal and the auto bailout he’d pushed through Congress.
2014 - A second nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas came down with Ebola after contracting it from a dying patient. (The nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, was later declared free of the disease.)
2016 - A judge in Connecticut dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit by Newtown families against the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre, citing a federal law that shielded gun manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products.
2017 - A truck bombing in Somalia’s capital killed more than 500 people in one of the world’s deadliest attacks in years; officials blamed the attack on the extremist group al-Shabab and said it was meant to target Mogadishu’s international airport, but the bomb detonated in a crowded street after soldiers opened fire.
2020 - Facebook and Twitter took steps to limit the spread of an unverified political story about the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that was published by the conservative-leaning New York Post; the moves led to cries of censorship from the right.
2020 - The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could end census field operations early, in a blow to efforts to make sure minorities were properly counted.
Birthdays
20 - Rowan Blanchard (actress)
22 - Addison Wingate (reality star)
25 - Lourdes Ciccone Leon (singer)
27 - Jared Goff (football player)
29 - Esra Bilgic (actress)
33 - Max Thieriot (actor)
34 - Jay Pharoah (actor/comedian)
35 - Skyler Shaye (actress)
40 - Jordan Brower (actor)
41 - Ben Whishaw (actor)
42 - Stacy Keibler (TV personality/professional wrestler)
43 - Usher (singer)
45 - Stephen Hill (actor)
47 - Natalie Maines (country singer)
51 - Jon Seda (actor)
54 - Stephen A. Smith (TV/radio host)
55 - Edward Kerr (actor)
56 - Karyn White (singer)
56 - Steve Coogan (actor)
57 - Joe Girardi (baseball manager)
58 - Lori Petty (actress)
63 - Thomas Dolby (singer)
68 - Greg Evigan (actor)
75 - Justin Hayward (singer)
81 - Cliff Richard (singer)
82 - Ralph Lauren (fashion designer)
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Today in Sports History - October 14
1899 - Nebraska and Kansas City Medics play to a 6-6 tie.
1905 - Nebraska defeats Knox 16-0.
1905 - The New York Giants defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in five games to win the World Series.
1906 - The Chicago White Sox defeated the Chicago Cubs in six games to win the World Series.
1908 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win the World Series.
1911 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 59-0.
1916 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 14-0.
1929 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs in five games to win the World Series.
1933 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 20-0.
1939 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 10-7.
1944 - #19 Indiana defeats Nebraska 54-0.
1945 - The Chicago Cardinals ended the longest losing streak in NFL history. The team had lost 29 consecutive games.
1950 - Colorado defeats Nebraska 28-19.
1951 - Jack Christiansen (Detroit Lions) ran back two punts for touchdowns.
1961 - Syracuse defeats Nebraska 28-6.
1962 - George Blanda (Houston Oilers) threw six touchdown passes against the New York Titans.
1967 - Kansas upsets #8 Nebraska 10-0.
1970 - The Cleveland Cavaliers play their inaugural NBA game in a 107-92 loss to the Buffalo Braves.
1972 - #6 Nebraska defeats Missouri 62-0.
1978 - #8 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 48-14.
1979 - Hockey Hall-of-Famer Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of his record 894 goals in a home game against the Vancouver Cancucks.
1984 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres in five games to win the World Series.
1985 - The New York Jets retire Joe Namath's #12.
1986 - The International Olympic Committee announces their plan to begin staggering the Summer and Winter Olympic Games every two years.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeats Missouri 50-7.
1990 - Joe Montana (San Francisco 49ers) passed for 476 yards and six touchdowns. Five of the touchdowns were thrown to Jerry Rice.
1995 - #2 Nebraska defeats Missouri 57-0.
2000 - Neil Parry had his right leg severely broken while playing on kickoff coverage during a game at UTEP. Nine days later his lower leg was amputated. Three years later he returned to football on one play with a prosthetic leg.
2000 - #1 Nebraska defeats Texas Tech 56-3.
2003 - Fan Steve Bartman deflects the ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou; the Cubs then give up eight runs in the inning and lose to the Florida Marlins 8-3. The Bartman incident is seen as a turning point in the series.
2006 - #21 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 21-3.
2017 - #9 Ohio State defeats Nebraska 56-14.
1066 - The Normans, under William the Conqueror, defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
1586 - Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I. (Mary was beheaded in February 1587.)
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and World War II general, was born in Denison, Texas.
1933 - Nazi Germany withdrew from the Geneva disarmament conference and the League of Nations.
1939 - A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 - Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1960 - Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan.
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in civil rights.
1964 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
1968 - The first live telecast from a staffed U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1977 - Singer Bing Crosby died at age 73.
1986 - Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 - A 58-hour drama began in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center.
1990 - Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.
2001 - As U.S. jets opened a second week of raids in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country.
2006 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
2008 - A grand jury in Orlando, Florida returned charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter against Casey Anthony in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. (She was acquitted in July 2011.)
2011 - President Barack Obama cast himself as a savior of the U.S. auto industry as he stood in a once-shuttered Michigan assembly plant with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to boast of a new trade deal and the auto bailout he’d pushed through Congress.
2014 - A second nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas came down with Ebola after contracting it from a dying patient. (The nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, was later declared free of the disease.)
2016 - A judge in Connecticut dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit by Newtown families against the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre, citing a federal law that shielded gun manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products.
2017 - A truck bombing in Somalia’s capital killed more than 500 people in one of the world’s deadliest attacks in years; officials blamed the attack on the extremist group al-Shabab and said it was meant to target Mogadishu’s international airport, but the bomb detonated in a crowded street after soldiers opened fire.
2020 - Facebook and Twitter took steps to limit the spread of an unverified political story about the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that was published by the conservative-leaning New York Post; the moves led to cries of censorship from the right.
2020 - The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could end census field operations early, in a blow to efforts to make sure minorities were properly counted.
Birthdays
20 - Rowan Blanchard (actress)
22 - Addison Wingate (reality star)
25 - Lourdes Ciccone Leon (singer)
27 - Jared Goff (football player)
29 - Esra Bilgic (actress)
33 - Max Thieriot (actor)
34 - Jay Pharoah (actor/comedian)
35 - Skyler Shaye (actress)
40 - Jordan Brower (actor)
41 - Ben Whishaw (actor)
42 - Stacy Keibler (TV personality/professional wrestler)
43 - Usher (singer)
45 - Stephen Hill (actor)
47 - Natalie Maines (country singer)
51 - Jon Seda (actor)
54 - Stephen A. Smith (TV/radio host)
55 - Edward Kerr (actor)
56 - Karyn White (singer)
56 - Steve Coogan (actor)
57 - Joe Girardi (baseball manager)
58 - Lori Petty (actress)
63 - Thomas Dolby (singer)
68 - Greg Evigan (actor)
75 - Justin Hayward (singer)
81 - Cliff Richard (singer)
82 - Ralph Lauren (fashion designer)
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Today in Sports History - October 14
1899 - Nebraska and Kansas City Medics play to a 6-6 tie.
1905 - Nebraska defeats Knox 16-0.
1905 - The New York Giants defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in five games to win the World Series.
1906 - The Chicago White Sox defeated the Chicago Cubs in six games to win the World Series.
1908 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win the World Series.
1911 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 59-0.
1916 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 14-0.
1929 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs in five games to win the World Series.
1933 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 20-0.
1939 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 10-7.
1944 - #19 Indiana defeats Nebraska 54-0.
1945 - The Chicago Cardinals ended the longest losing streak in NFL history. The team had lost 29 consecutive games.
1950 - Colorado defeats Nebraska 28-19.
1951 - Jack Christiansen (Detroit Lions) ran back two punts for touchdowns.
1961 - Syracuse defeats Nebraska 28-6.
1962 - George Blanda (Houston Oilers) threw six touchdown passes against the New York Titans.
1967 - Kansas upsets #8 Nebraska 10-0.
1970 - The Cleveland Cavaliers play their inaugural NBA game in a 107-92 loss to the Buffalo Braves.
1972 - #6 Nebraska defeats Missouri 62-0.
1978 - #8 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 48-14.
1979 - Hockey Hall-of-Famer Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of his record 894 goals in a home game against the Vancouver Cancucks.
1984 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres in five games to win the World Series.
1985 - The New York Jets retire Joe Namath's #12.
1986 - The International Olympic Committee announces their plan to begin staggering the Summer and Winter Olympic Games every two years.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeats Missouri 50-7.
1990 - Joe Montana (San Francisco 49ers) passed for 476 yards and six touchdowns. Five of the touchdowns were thrown to Jerry Rice.
1995 - #2 Nebraska defeats Missouri 57-0.
2000 - Neil Parry had his right leg severely broken while playing on kickoff coverage during a game at UTEP. Nine days later his lower leg was amputated. Three years later he returned to football on one play with a prosthetic leg.
2000 - #1 Nebraska defeats Texas Tech 56-3.
2003 - Fan Steve Bartman deflects the ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou; the Cubs then give up eight runs in the inning and lose to the Florida Marlins 8-3. The Bartman incident is seen as a turning point in the series.
2006 - #21 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 21-3.
2017 - #9 Ohio State defeats Nebraska 56-14.
