TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2017

On this day in history:

1066 - The Battle of Hastings occurred in England. The Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II of England.

1888 - In England, Louis Le Prince filmed the experimental film Roundhay Garden Scene. It is the oldest surviving motion picture.

1925 - The innermost sarcophagus of Egyptian king Tutankhamun is opened, revealing the mummy. 1926 - The book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, made its debut. 1933 - Nazi Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.

1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.

1944 - During the Second World War, the Second British Parachute Brigade liberated the city of Athens.

1947 - Charles Yeager becomes the first human being to break through the sound barrier. 1954 - C.B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt. The epic had a cast of 25,000 people. 1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award.

1968 - The Western Australian town of Meckering suffers an earthquake which registers 6.9 on the Richter scale. 1970 - Anwar el-Sadat became president of Egypt following the death of President Nasser. 1972 - In Iraq, oil was struck for the first time just north of Kirkuk.

2002 - Britain stripped power from the Catholic and Protestant politicians of Northern Ireland. Britain resumed sole responsibility for running Northern Ireland. 2014 - A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.

2015 - A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan, kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.

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