Today is Thursday, October 14, the 287th day of 2010. There are 78 days left in the year.
1066 ― Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
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 Hungnam prison
1960 ― Peace Corps first suggested by JFK
1964 ― Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize