HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY

Today’s highlight: On Oct. 14, 1960, the idea of a Peace Corps was suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. On this date: 1586: Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I.

Mary was beheaded in February 1587. 1912: Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he went ahead with a scheduled speech. 1926: “Winnie-the-Pooh” by A.A. Milne was first published by Methuen & Co. of London.

1933: Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.

1939: A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed. 1947: U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. (“Chuck”) Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California. 1964: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1968: The first successful live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7. 1977: Singer Bing Crosby died outside Madrid, Spain, at age 74. 1987: A 58-hour drama began in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down a narrow abandoned well at a private day care center; she was rescued on Oct. 16. 2001: As U.S. jets opened a second week of raids in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country. 2007: The reality TV show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” premiered on E! Entertainment Television.