📜 This Day in History

October 14

• 1066Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's forces defeated the English army near Hastings and killed Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England.
• 1888French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England.
• 1943World War II: During the second raid on Schweinfurt, the U.S. 8th Air Force suffered so many losses that it lost air supremacy over Germany for several months.
• 1953Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 special forces attacked the village of Qibya on the West Bank, destroying 45 buildings, killing 42 villagers, and wounding 15 others.
• 1979At least 75,000 people attended the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C., to demand equal civil rights for LGBT people.
• 2021Approximately 10,000 John Deere employees went on strike in one of the largest private-sector strikes in the United States.

Born on this day

• 1890Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (died 1969)
• 1893Lillian Gish, American actress (died 1993)
• 1906Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (died 1975)
• 1943Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran