WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015

Today is Wednesday, October 14, the 287th day of 2015. 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

1922 ― First automated telephones; Pennsylvania exchange in NYC

1933 ― Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations

1944 ― German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler

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

1950 ― Rev. Moon Sun-myung liberated from Hung Nam prison

1964 ― Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize

1982 ― 6,000 Unification Church couples wed in Korea

1986 ― The IOC decides to stagger the Winter and Summer Olympic schedule