October 14<\/p>\n
1066 \u2013 Having been informed by his scouts of the approach of King Harold Godwinson’s army in an attempt at a surprise attack, Duke William of Normandy marches his troops and the armies engage a few miles northwest of the town of Hastings, resulting in a costly, but overwhelming, victory by the Normans.<\/p>\n
1322 \u2013 The army of Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats the army of King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence.<\/p>\n
1586 \u2013 Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England<\/p>\n
1656 \u2013 The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends<\/p>\n
1774 \u2013 The First Continental Congress denounces the enactment by Parliament of what they term The Intolerable Acts<\/em> in response to the ‘Boston Tea Party’ and demands British concessions.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 At the Battle of Bristoe Station, Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill are repelled by Union rear guard troops under the command of Gouverneur K. Warren, failing in the effort to drive Union forces out of Virginia.<\/p>\n 1884 \u2013 George Eastman receives a U.S. patent for strip type photographic film.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2\u20130, winning the World Series, which would be the last time until the 2016 World Series, the record so far for the longest time between winning a World Series championship.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 Prisoners at the NAZI Sobibor extermination camp in Poland covertly assassinate most of the on duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide due to his involvement in an attempt to assassinate Hitler<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 Piloting the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis<\/em> rocket plane over Rogers Dry Lake in California, Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 Leaders of the Communist Party USA are prosecuted under the Smith Act<\/em> with all 11 defendants convicted of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. 2004 \u2013 Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, a Bombardier CRJ200 crashes near Jefferson City, Missouri, while the pilots, the only people aboard, try to perform an emergency landing due to engine failure, being killed in the attempt<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon from an altitude of 127,852 feet, setting a new world record at the time.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on a labor strike, the first in over 30 years, lasting a little over a month before being resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 14 1066 \u2013 Having been informed by his scouts of the approach of King Harold Godwinson’s army in an attempt at a surprise attack, Duke William of Normandy marches his troops and the armies engage a few miles northwest of the town of Hastings, resulting in a costly, but overwhelming, victory by the Normans. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60698"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96767,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60698\/revisions\/96767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(really been successful, hasn’t it?)<\/p>\n