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