Today is Friday, October 14, the 287th day of 2011. There are 78 days left in the year.

1066 ― Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England

1586 ― Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth

1867 ― 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan

1884 ― George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1933 ― Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations

1949 ― 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition

1953 ― Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment

1960 ― Peace Corps first suggested by JFK

1964 ― Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize

1982 ― 6,000 Unification Church couples wed in Korea