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) filmedRoundhay 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.