October 14 in History

Historical Events on October 14

1656 Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.

1773 Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.

1863 American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station: Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.

1952 Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.

1958 The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.

1964 Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

1967 Vietnam War: American folk singer and activist Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.

1982 U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.

1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Famous Birthdays on October 14

1257 Przemysł II

1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower

1906 Hannah Arendt

1978 Usher (singer)

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Famous Deaths on October 14

1944 Erwin Rommel

1977 Bing Crosby

1990 Leonard Bernstein

1999 Julius Nyerere

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