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This day in history - October 14
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:35 pm
by seamusTX
1066 - William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
The Norman Conquest created the English language (blended Anglo-Saxon and French) and many aspects of our legal system.
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a lunatic anarchist in Milwaukee. He was not seriously injured and delivered the speech that he came to give.
1947 - Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound and live to tell about it when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Several other aviators probably broke the sound barrier, but their craft disintegrated catastrophically.
- Jim
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:38 pm
by USA1
1968 - The first live telecast from a staffed U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:40 pm
by The Annoyed Man
In 1876, it was the day before October 15.
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:01 pm
by longhorn_92
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:41 pm
by USA1
The Annoyed Man wrote:In 1876, it was the day before October 15.
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:41 pm
by timdsmith72
in 2006 timdsmith72 got married to his beautiful bride.
And I definitely got the better end of that deal.
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:51 pm
by joe817
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TIM!!!
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:12 pm
by timdsmith72
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:00 am
by JLaw
1976 - JLaw was born!
(Happy Anniversary, timdsmith72, didn't mean to steal your thunder...)
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:04 am
by timdsmith72
Happy Birthday JLaw!!!
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:37 am
by seamusTX
The Annoyed Man wrote:In 1876, it was the day before October 15.
OK. I give up. What significance does this have? Is it a Masonic secret or something?
- Jim
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:56 am
by joe817
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:50 pm
by JLaw
Thank you gentleman! It's greatly appreciated.
JLaw
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:49 pm
by Oldgringo
Didn't Hermann Goering check himself out of the Nuremburg War Crimes on this date some 60 odd years ago?
Re: This day in history - October 14
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:57 am
by seamusTX
October 14, 1944, Rommell committed suicide in the face of his trial for conspiring to assassinate Hitler.
October 15, 1946, Goering committed suicide the day before he was to be hanged for crimes against humanity.
I tend not to include events that have little to do with American history.
- Jim
