Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 14

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• Tabinshwehti
  Tabinshwehti
• Chuck Yeager
  Chuck Yeager
• Chuck Yeager with the Bell X-1
  Chuck Yeager with the Bell X-1
• Bell X-1
  Bell X-1
• B. R. Ambedkar
  B. R. Ambedkar
• Roundhay Garden Scene
  Roundhay Garden Scene
• Hosni Mubarak
  Hosni Mubarak
• A Curtiss P-40 Warhawk at the National Museum of the US Air Force
  A Curtiss P-40 Warhawk at the National Museum of the US Air Force
• Harold's death as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
  Harold's death as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
• Rescuers at the Senghenydd colliery
  Rescuers at the Senghenydd colliery
• Erwin Rommel
  Erwin Rommel

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Teachers' Day in Poland;	refimprove
1773 – The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, was formed in Poland.
1806 – French forces under Napoleon secured a decisive victory over the Prussians, effectively eliminating Prussia from the War of the Fourth Coalition after only nineteen days of fighting.	needs more footnotes
1912 – Former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a would-be assassin in Milwaukee, but delivered a speech before receiving treatment.	Too much uncited
1938 – One of the most-produced American fighter aircraft, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, made its first flight in Buffalo, New York.	refimprove section
1944 – Having been linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, German field marshal Erwin Rommel (pictured) was forced to commit suicide.	too long
1969 – The British fifty pence coin was introduced to replace the ten shilling note, but its size initially caused people to mistake it for both the old half crown and the new ten pence piece.	refimprove section
1981 – Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.	date not cited
2020 – The world's first room-temperature superconductor, Carbonaceous sulfur hydride was first reported.	date not in article
Giambattista Marino |b|1569|	excessive unreferenced content
Joseph Plateau |b|1801|	Birthday not cited
François Bozizé |b|1946	unreferenced section
Isaac Mizrahi |b|1961	excessive unreferenced content
Shan Masood |b|1989|	birthday not cited

Eligible

• 1548 – Forces of the Burmese Toungoo dynasty led by King Tabinshwehti (depicted) departed Martaban to begin an invasion of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.
• 1758 – Third Silesian War: At the Battle of Hochkirch, an Austrian army under Leopold Joseph von Daun surprised the Prussians commanded by Frederick the Great, overwhelming them and forcing a general retreat.
• 1863 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Bristoe Station, the [[II Corps (Union Army)|Union Template:Nowrap]] surprised and repelled the Confederate attack on the Union rearguard, resulting in a Union victory.
• 1888 – French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene (pictured), the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England.
• 1926 – The first book featuring English author A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was published.
• 1939 – Second World War: The German submarine [[German submarine U-47 (1938)|Template:Nowrap]] torpedoed and sank the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak while the latter was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland.
• 1940 – Second World War: During the Blitz, a semi-armour-piercing fragmentation bomb fell on the road above Balham station in London, which was being used as an air raid shelter, killing at least 64 people.
• 1943 – World War II: During the second raid on Schweinfurt, the [[Eighth Air Force|U.S. Template:Nowrap Force]] suffered so many losses that it lost air supremacy over Germany for several months.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp revolted, killing 11 SS officers and staging a mass escape.
• 1947 – American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.06 on board the [[Bell X-1|Template:Nowrap]], an experimental rocket-powered aircraft.
• 1949 – The first of the Smith Act trials concluded in New York City, with eleven leaders of the Communist Party of the United States found guilty of violating the Smith Act.
• 1953 – Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Template:Nowrap special forces attacked the village of Qibya on the West Bank, destroying 45 buildings, killing 42 villagers, and wounding 15 others.
• 1956 – The Queen Elizabeth Way, North America's first intercity divided highway, opens.
• 1956 – B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste, publicly converted to Buddhism and became the leader of the Dalit Buddhist movement.
• 1957 – After three days of heavy rain, the Turia overflowed and flooded the city of Valencia, Spain, causing at least 81 deaths.
• 1979 – At least 75,000 people attended the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C., to demand equal civil rights for LGBT people.
• 1980 – The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party concluded, having anointed North Korean president Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il as his successor.
• 2011 – Michael Woodford was dismissed as the CEO of the optics manufacturer Olympus after uncovering internal financial misconduct, escalating the corporate scandal into one of the largest in Japanese business history.
• 2012 – Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere to become the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.
• 2014 – A snowstorm and series of avalanches occurred on and around the Himalayan peaks of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri, resulting in the deaths of at least 43 people.
• 2021 – Approximately 10,000 John Deere employees went on strike in one of the largest private-sector strikes in the United States.

• Born/died this day: | Antipope Dioscorus |d|530| Al-Mu'tamid |d|892| Jacques Arcadelt |d|1568| Samuel Daniel |Template:Abbr|1619| Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham |b|1726| Mary Margaret O'Reilly |b|1865| Charles de Tricornot de Rose |b|1876| Sumner Welles |b|1892| Jessie Bonstelle |d|1932| Marie Lang |d|1934| John Mitchell |b|1951| Mavis Wheeler |d|1970| Charlie Kirk |b|1993| Julius Nyerere |d|1999|

Notes

• Norman conquest of England appears on September 28, so Battle of Hastings should not appear in the same year.
• Shoe-banging incident appears on October 12, so Brezhnev should not appear in the same year.
• Paddington Bear appears on October 13, so Winnie-the-Pooh should not appear in the same year.

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• 1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's forces defeated the English army at Hastings and killed Harold Godwinson (depicted), the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England.
• 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French forces under Marshal Michel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen, present-day Germany.
• 1913 – The worst mining accident in the United Kingdom's history took place when an explosion resulted in 440 deaths at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, Wales.
• 1943 – The Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, was established with Jose P. Laurel as its first president.
• 1964 – Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replace him with Leonid Brezhnev.