Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 14
- 1066: Battle of Hastings: The Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror (pictured) defeated the English army and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.
- 1926: The children's book featuring A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published.
- 1947: Flying a Bell X-1, test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.
- 1953: Qibya massacre: Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 special forces were ordered to "inflict heavy damage on the inhabitants" of a village on the West Bank.
- 1981: Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
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