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Events

• 1809 (217 years ago) The Treaty of Schönbrunn is signed, ending the War of the Fifth Coalition, the final successful war in Napoleon Bonaparte's military career.
• 1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
• 1888 (138 years ago) Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
• 1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
• 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
• 1964 (62 years ago) Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
• 1966 (60 years ago) The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
• 1982 (44 years ago) U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.

Births

• 1633 (393 years ago) James II of England,
• 1890 (136 years ago) Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (died 1969)
• 1893 (133 years ago) Lillian Gish, American actress (died 1993)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (died 1975)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Roger Moore, English actor and producer (died 2017)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (died 1997)
• 1943 (83 years ago) Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran
• 1993 (33 years ago) Charlie Kirk, American media personality and political activist (died 2025)

Deaths

• 1944 (82 years ago) Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (born 1891)
• 1959 (67 years ago) Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (born 1909)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1903)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
• 1990 (36 years ago) Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)
• 1999 (27 years ago) Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (born 1922)
• 2010 (16 years ago) Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (born 1924)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (born 1950)

All 409 events, births and deaths of October 14