WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009

Today is Wednesday, October 14, the 287th day of 2004. There are 78 days left in the year.

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

1774 _ First Continental Congress is first to declare colonial rights (Philadelphia)

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

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

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