This day in history
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Monday, 13 October 2014
On this day... October 14:
On this day...
October 14
:
Hoshana Rabbah
begins at sunset (Judaism, 2014)
1066
–
Norman conquest of England
: The forces of
William the Conqueror
defeated the English army
at
Hastings
and killed
Harold Godwinson
, the last crowned
Anglo-Saxon
king of England
.
1888
– French inventor
Louis Le Prince
(pictured)
filmed
Roundhay Garden Scene
, the earliest surviving
motion picture
, in
Roundhay
,
Leeds
,
West Yorkshire
, England.
1939
–
Second World War
: The German submarine
U-47
torpedoed and sank the
British Royal Navy
battleship
HMS
Royal Oak
while the latter was anchored at
Scapa Flow
in
Orkney
, Scotland.
1944
– Having been linked to
a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler
, German Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel
was forced to commit suicide.
1964
–
Leonid Brezhnev
succeeded
Nikita Khrushchev
as
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
.
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