Today in History

October 14

1933 - Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.

1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes Leader of the Soviet Union.

1998 - Amartya Sen wins the Nobel Prize in Economics.

2006 - Sudan signs peace deal with eastern rebels in Eritrean capital Asmara.

2008 - Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport is officially opened.

2012 - Austrian Felix Baumgartner makes history when he free-falls at supersonic speed 39 kilometres above the ground.

2013 - Former UAE and Al Ain football coach Bruno Metsu dies of cancer. 2016 - Egyptian writer and poet Farouq Shousha dies at the age of 80. 2017 - A powerful bomb blast in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills more than 231.