TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 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. ALSO ON THIS DATE

1586

Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I.

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. Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.

1964

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace