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.)
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 took his own life rather than face trial and face certain execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 - U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
1964 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid I. Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in civil rights.
1968 - The first live telecast from a staffed U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1986 - Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 - Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.
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.)
2012 - Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner landed gracefully in the eastern New Mexico desert after a 2.4-mile jump from a balloon in the stratosphere in a daring, dramatic feat that officials said made him the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound.
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.
2017 - The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revoked the membership of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, after published reports about sexual harassment and rape allegations against Weinstein.
2021 - A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold at auction three years earlier fetched more than $25 million — a record for the artist, and close to 20 times its pre-shredded price.
2021 - One year ago: New York real estate heir Robert Durst was sentenced in Los Angeles to life in prison without a chance of parole for the murder of a friend, Susan Berman, more than two decades earlier. (Durst died in prison in January 2022 at 78.)
Birthdays
21 - Rowan Blanchard (actress)
23 - Addison Wingate (reality star)
28 - Jared Goff (football player)
34 - Max Thieriot (actor)
34 - Christine Quinn (reality star)
35 - Jay Pharoah (actor/comedian)
36 - Skyler Shaye (actress)
38 - Alex Scott (soccer player)
41 - Jordan Brower (actor)
42 - Ben Whishaw (actor)
43 - Stacy Keibler (TV personality/professional wrestler)
44 - Usher (singer)
46 - Stephen Hill (actor)
48 - Natalie Maines (singer)
52 - Jon Seda (actor)
55 - Stephen A. Smith (TV/radio host)
56 - Edward Kerr (actor)
57 - Karyn White (singer)
57 - Steve Coogan (actor)
58 - Joe Girardi (baseball player/manager)
59 - Lori Petty (actress)
67 - Arleen Sorkin (TV personality)
69 - Greg Evigan (actor)
83 - 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 defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in five games to win the World Series.
1906 - The Chicago White Sox defeat 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.
1961 - Syracuse defeats Nebraska 28-6.
1962 - George Blanda (Houston Oilers) threw six touchdown passes against the New York Titans.
1964 - Little known American distance runner Billy Mills scores major upset by winning the 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics; beats Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia by 0.4s; only American to ever win the event.
1965 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Minnesota Twins in seven games to win the World Series.
1967 - Kansas upsets #8 Nebraska 10-0.
1970 - The Cleveland Cavaliers play their inaugural NBA game, a 107-92 loss to the Buffalo Braves.
1972 - #6 Nebraska defeats Missouri 62-0.
1978 - #8 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 48-14.
1979 - Wayne Gretzky, the NHL's all-time leading scorer, records his first career NHL goal.
1984 - George ‘Sparky’ Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues.
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 votes to stagger the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, with one of the two being held 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.
1991 - Mike Gartner of the New York Rangers becomes the first player in NHL history to score his 500th goal, 500th assist and 1,000th point all in the same season.
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.
2002 - Steve Bartman, a fan in the stands, bats a ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou. The Cubs would go on to give up eight runs in the inning and lose to the Florida Marlins, 8-3 with the Bartman incident being seen as the turning point in the series.
2006 - #21 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 21-3.
2017 - #9 Ohio State defeats Nebraska 56-14.
2020 - The NFL cancels the 2021 Pro Bowl due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.)
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 took his own life rather than face trial and face certain execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 - U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
1964 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid I. Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in civil rights.
1968 - The first live telecast from a staffed U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1986 - Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 - Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.
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.)
2012 - Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner landed gracefully in the eastern New Mexico desert after a 2.4-mile jump from a balloon in the stratosphere in a daring, dramatic feat that officials said made him the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound.
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.
2017 - The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revoked the membership of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, after published reports about sexual harassment and rape allegations against Weinstein.
2021 - A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold at auction three years earlier fetched more than $25 million — a record for the artist, and close to 20 times its pre-shredded price.
2021 - One year ago: New York real estate heir Robert Durst was sentenced in Los Angeles to life in prison without a chance of parole for the murder of a friend, Susan Berman, more than two decades earlier. (Durst died in prison in January 2022 at 78.)
Birthdays
21 - Rowan Blanchard (actress)
23 - Addison Wingate (reality star)
28 - Jared Goff (football player)
34 - Max Thieriot (actor)
34 - Christine Quinn (reality star)
35 - Jay Pharoah (actor/comedian)
36 - Skyler Shaye (actress)
38 - Alex Scott (soccer player)
41 - Jordan Brower (actor)
42 - Ben Whishaw (actor)
43 - Stacy Keibler (TV personality/professional wrestler)
44 - Usher (singer)
46 - Stephen Hill (actor)
48 - Natalie Maines (singer)
52 - Jon Seda (actor)
55 - Stephen A. Smith (TV/radio host)
56 - Edward Kerr (actor)
57 - Karyn White (singer)
57 - Steve Coogan (actor)
58 - Joe Girardi (baseball player/manager)
59 - Lori Petty (actress)
67 - Arleen Sorkin (TV personality)
69 - Greg Evigan (actor)
83 - 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 defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in five games to win the World Series.
1906 - The Chicago White Sox defeat 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.
1961 - Syracuse defeats Nebraska 28-6.
1962 - George Blanda (Houston Oilers) threw six touchdown passes against the New York Titans.
1964 - Little known American distance runner Billy Mills scores major upset by winning the 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics; beats Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia by 0.4s; only American to ever win the event.
1965 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Minnesota Twins in seven games to win the World Series.
1967 - Kansas upsets #8 Nebraska 10-0.
1970 - The Cleveland Cavaliers play their inaugural NBA game, a 107-92 loss to the Buffalo Braves.
1972 - #6 Nebraska defeats Missouri 62-0.
1978 - #8 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 48-14.
1979 - Wayne Gretzky, the NHL's all-time leading scorer, records his first career NHL goal.
1984 - George ‘Sparky’ Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues.
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 votes to stagger the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, with one of the two being held 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.
1991 - Mike Gartner of the New York Rangers becomes the first player in NHL history to score his 500th goal, 500th assist and 1,000th point all in the same season.
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.
2002 - Steve Bartman, a fan in the stands, bats a ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou. The Cubs would go on to give up eight runs in the inning and lose to the Florida Marlins, 8-3 with the Bartman incident being seen as the turning point in the series.
2006 - #21 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 21-3.
2017 - #9 Ohio State defeats Nebraska 56-14.
2020 - The NFL cancels the 2021 Pro Bowl due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
