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Template:On this day/14 October

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14 October:

  • 1066 The Norman conquest o Ingland begins wi the Battle o Hastings (Harold Godwinson's daith illustratit).
  • 1586 Mary, Queen o Scots, gaes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I o Ingland.
  • 1912 Umwhile preses Theodore Roosevelt is shot an mildly woundit bi John Flammang Schrank. Wi the fresh wound in his chest, an the bullet still within it, Roosevelt deleevers his scheduled speech.
  • 1926 The childer's beuk Winnie-the-Pooh, bi A. A. Milne, is first published.
  • 1944 Warld War II: Airtit tae a plot tae assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced tae commit suicide.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (b. 1890) · Hannah Arendt (b. 1906) · Roger Moore (b. 1927)