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FILE NO. 10.14 5 specimens · est. 1066-1964

What happened on October 14?

Real photographs, all filed under this date. Name each event before you read on.
Case Timeline 1066-1964 · 898 years
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What happened on October 14

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  1. A dark oil painting of a crowned rider on a rearing pale horse surrounded by spears and banners, with wounded men sprawled across the foreground and a shield lying in the dirt.
    Conflict · 1066

    A king is killed and a duke wins a kingdom in a single day's fighting

    Harold and William fought all day on 14 October 1066. Harold's army had marched about 250 miles in under three weeks after beating a Norwegian invasion in Yorkshire. The battle turned when the English shield wall broke ranks to chase a retreat that may or may not have been feigned. Harold was killed and England had a new ruling class within a generation.

  2. A pen and ink drawing of a small round bear sitting in a wooden chair on a woodland path, with rabbits, mice and other small animals gathered in a line before him under a large tree.
    Literature · 1926

    A book of stories about a boy's stuffed bear is published

    Winnie-the-Pooh was published on 14 October 1926. The bear was named after a real one, a Canadian black bear called Winnie kept at London Zoo, which Christopher Robin Milne had been allowed to feed by hand. The boy grew to dislike the books intensely for the attention they brought him.

  3. A man in a leather jacket sitting in the cockpit of a bright orange bullet-shaped aircraft, photographed through the open side hatch.
    Aviation · 1947

    A pilot with two broken ribs flies faster than sound and tells almost nobody

    Chuck Yeager took the Bell X-1 past Mach 1 on 14 October 1947. He had broken two ribs falling off a horse two nights earlier and said nothing, because he would have been grounded; a friend sawed off a broom handle so he could lever the hatch shut with his left hand. The flight stayed secret for about eight months.

  4. A man in a dark overcoat standing up in an open car waving, hemmed in by police officers in peaked caps and a crowd of people lining a shopping street.
    Civil Rights · 1964

    A minister of 35 becomes the youngest person yet to win the Nobel Peace Prize

    Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 14 October 1964, aged 35, the youngest recipient at the time. He was in hospital for exhaustion when the news came. He gave the entire prize money, about 54,000 dollars, to the civil rights movement.

  5. A heavy-set man in a dark suit and spectacles standing in an open car, raising his hat high with one arm, a crowd and a stone building behind him.
    Politics · 1912

    A candidate is shot on his way to a rally and gives the speech anyway

    Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest outside a Milwaukee hotel on 14 October 1912. The bullet went through a steel spectacle case and a folded fifty-page speech before reaching him. He refused hospital, went to the hall, opened by saying it takes more than that to kill a bull moose, and spoke for about ninety minutes.