400 Historic Events for October 14
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| 1911 |
Birth |
Le Duc Tho, North Vietnamese representive at Paris peace talk
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| 1911 |
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Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
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| 1912 |
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Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Jack Young, cricketer (Middlesex and England slow left-armer post-WW2)
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex)
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Jack Crapp, cricketer (England batsman 1948-49)
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| 1913 |
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Explosion in coal mine at Cardiff kills 439
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| 1913 |
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Victor Trumper Jr, cricketer (son of Mr and Mrs Trumper NSW 1940-41)
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quick of the 30's who didn't play for Aust)
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| 1914 |
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German troops occupy Brug
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Brendan Gill, critic
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| 1916 |
Birth |
C Everett Koop, surgeon general (1981-89)
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| 1918 |
Birth |
Doug Ring, cricketer (Australian leggie of the late 40's early 50's)
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| 1919 |
Death |
Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies
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| 1919 |
Birth |
Edward L Feightner, US rear-admiral (WW II-Santa Cruz Islands)
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| 1920 |
Event |
Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
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| 1922 |
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1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
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| 1922 |
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1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue NYC
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| 1923 |
Death |
Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies
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| 1923 |
Death |
George Elbridge Whiting, composer, dies at 83
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| 1924 |
Event |
Arnold Schoebergs opera "Die Gluckliche Hand," premieres in Vienna
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| 1924 |
Birth |
Robert Webber, Santa Ana Calif, actor (79 Park Avenue)
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| 1925 |
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Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
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| 1925 |
Birth |
Louis Cohen, physicist
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| 1926 |
Event |
Alan Alexander Milne's book "Winnie-the-Pooh" released
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