Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 14
- 1066 - Battle of Hastings: The Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror defeated the English army and killed King Harold II of England.
- 1926 - The children's book "Winnie-the-Pooh", by A. A. Milne, was published for the first time.
- 1947 - Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first person to do so in level flight.
- 1953 - Qibya massacre: Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 special forces were ordered to "inflict heavy damage on the inhabitants" in a village on the West Bank.
- 1979 - As many as 100,000 people in Washington, DC marched in the first gay rights march in the United States.
- 1981 - Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
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