Right this moment is Monday, Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2024. There are 78 days left within the 12 months.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Oct. 14, 1986, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel (EL’-ee vee-ZEHL’) was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Additionally on this date:
In 1066, Normans below William the Conqueror defeated the English on the Battle of Hastings.
In 1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason towards Queen Elizabeth I. (Mary was beheaded in February 1587.)
In 1910, aviator Claude Grahame-White flew his biplane over Washington, D.C. and landed it on West Govt Avenue, subsequent to the White Home.
In 1944, German Area Marshal Erwin Rommel took his personal life fairly than face trial and sure execution for allegedly conspiring towards Adolf Hitler.
In 1947, U.S. Air Pressure Capt. Chuck Yeager grew to become the primary check pilot to interrupt the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 rocket aircraft over Muroc Dry Lake in California.
In 1964, in one of many best upsets in Olympic historical past, American Billy Mills received the ten,000 meter race on the Tokyo Summer time Video games. Additionally in 1964, civil rights chief Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1981, the brand new president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak (HOHS’-nee moo-BAH’-rahk), was sworn in to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
In 2008, a grand jury in Orlando, Florida, returned costs of first-degree homicide, aggravated little one abuse and aggravated manslaughter towards Casey Anthony within the demise of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. (She was acquitted in July 2011.)
In 2012, retired Air Pressure Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, on the age of 89, marked the sixty fifth anniversary of his supersonic flight by smashing by means of the sound barrier once more, this time within the backseat of an F-15 that took off from Nellis Air Pressure Base in Nevada.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Former White Home counsel John W. Dean III is 86.
- Designer Ralph Lauren is 85.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Charlie Joiner is 77.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Beth Daniel is 68.
- Musician Thomas Dolby is 66.
- Designer Isaac Mizrahi is 63.
- Actor Steve Coogan is 58.
- TV host Stephen A. Smith is 57.
- Nation singer Natalie Maines (The Chicks) is 50.
- Singer Usher is 46.
- Actor-comedian Jay Pharoah is 37.
- NFL quarterback Jared Goff is 30.