TODAY IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2019

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.

1879 - Thomas Edison signed an agreement with Jose D. Husbands for the sale of Edison telephones in Chile.

1887 - Thomas Edison and George E. Gouraud reached an agreement for the international marketing rights for the phonograph.

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

1889 - Australia’s first electric trams begin operating. 1926 - The book Winnie-thePooh, 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 World War II, the Second British Parachute Brigade liberated the city of Athens.

1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began.

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. 2002 - Britain stripped power from the Catholic and Protestant politicians of Northern Ireland. Britain resumed sole responsibility for running Northern Ireland.

BIRTHDAYS

Akbar (Akbar the Great) 1542 Mughal Dynasty ruler in India William Penn 1644 - Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers.

Dwight David Eisenhower 1890