In 1066, Normans under William the Conquerer defeated the Saxons at the Battle of Hastings.
In 1806, During the Napoleonic Wars, French armies defeat the Prussians at Jena and Auerstadt.
In 1884, George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
In 1922, Lester J. Maitland pilots an aircraft in excess of 200 m.p.h.
In 1922, the first automated telephones, the Pennsylvania exchange in N.Y. City, become operational.
In 1943, U.S. 8th Air Force fights the most savage air battle ever fought, Mission #115, the raid on Schweinfurt, known as "Black Thursday" (65 bombers and 650 American airmen downed).
In 1943, 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland.
In 1968, 30 years ago, Apollo 7 became the first U.S. manned space mission to broadcast live television signals from space.
In 1994, Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus.
In 1996, Archer Daniels Midland Co. said it would plead guilty to two charges and pay $100 million to settle a federal price-fixing case.
In 1997, the Nobel Prize in economics went to Americans Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes for their work on
derivatives.
George Grenville: 1712
Politician, English, his policy of taxing the American colonies, initiated by his Revenue Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765, started the train of events leading to the American Revolution.
Francis Lightfoot Lee: 1734
Revolutionary, Statesman, Declaration of Independence signer
Sir Edward Sabine: 1788
Astronomer, English, determined the shape of the Earth and studied the Earth's magnetic field.
Elwood Haynes: 1857
Inventor, built one of the first U.S. autos
Roger Moore: 1927
TV/Movie Actor, Protestant, English, b. in London; James Bond movies; Ivanhoe star, Maverick's Cousin Beauregard
Maverick, The Saint's Simon Templar
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower: 1890
General, President, b. in Denison, TX; 34th U.S. President (1953-61); WWII 5-star Supreme Commander of Allied Forces
in Europe, screwed up by starting NASA.
W. Edwards Deming: 1900
Businessperson, RFN:William; helped Japan after WWII
George Harold Brown: 1908
Engineer, electrical engineer who made major contributions to the development of radio and television broadcast antennas.
Born 14 October
William Penn: 1644
Pioneer, English, Quaker, Pennsylvania founder.
Thought for Today: "It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves the greatest spendthrifts in society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs."
Adam Smith, 1776
