1882 : Punjab University started in India (now West Pakistan).
1912 : Former US President Theodore Roosevelt was attempted to assassinate a man named John Crank.
1920 : Oxford University admitted women to degree courses.
1026 : A. A. Milne’s book Winnie the Pooh was published for children.
1947 : Pilot Charles Yager made the first successful flight from the X-1 at a speed faster than sound.
1956 : Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, along with about 380,000 followers, converted to Buddhism at Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur.
1964 : On this day, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded at the age of 35 for running a non-violent movement against apartheid in American society. Born in the US state of Georgia, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
1981 : Vice President Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt.
1982 : US President Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs.
1998 : Renowned economist Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize.
1999 : Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was rejected in the US Senate.
Famous Birthdays – October 14
1633: James II of England.
1784: King Ferdinand VII of Spain.
1882: Eamon de Valera, the first President of the Republic of Ireland.
1884: Har Dayal, Indian revolutionary.
1890: Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States.
1924: Virendra Kumar Bhattacharya, an Indian writer.
1927: Roger Moore, an English actor, best known for his role as James Bond.
1931: Pandit Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee, an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana.
1939: Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer-founder of the Ralph Lauren Corporation.
1940: Cliff Richard, an Indian singer-songwriter and actor.
1958: Shahid Shahid Pervez, an Indian sitar player from the Etawah Gharana.
1981: Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer.
Death Anniversaries – October 14
1066: Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England.
1919: Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, a German businessman.
1944: Erwin Rommel, German general.
1993: Lalchand Hirachand Doshi, President of Walchand Industries Group.
1997: Harold Robbins, American novelist.
1999: Julius Nyerere, Tanzania’s first president.
2013: Mohan Dharia, Indian Union Minister and social activist.
2015: Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian Admiral.
1492 : Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas in the West Indies. He understood that we had reached India.
1823 : Charles McIntosh of Scotland sold the first raincoat.
1847 : Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske started Siemens AG Company.
1850 : America’s first women’s medical college opened.
1871 : In India, the British government criminalized 161 castes and tribes under the Criminal Tribes Act.
1901 : US President Theodore Roosevelt officially renamed the executive mansion the White House.
1960 : Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev knocked on the table to make his point while addressing the United Nations.
1964 : For the first time in the world, the Soviet Union sent astronauts into space on this day without wearing a spacesuit.
1968 : The 19th Olympic Games began in Mexico City, Mexico.
1983 : Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei was sentenced to four years in prison for accepting a bribe of 200, 000 US dollars from Lockheed Corporation.
1988 : Guerrillas attacked an Indian Peace Corps convoy at the University of Jaffna to capture an LTTE leader. The heavy loss of the Indian squad.
1998 : Pallavi Shah of Kolhapur, India, won the 33rd Chess Olympiad and gets the title of International Woman Master.
1999 : Pakistan’s military general Parvesh Musharraf took over power of the country by overthrowing then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
2000 : The Millennium World Food Prize was awarded to Indian plant geneticist Dr. Surinder K. Vasal and Mexican botanist Dr. Evangelina Villegas for developing a protein-rich maize variety.
2001 : Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2019 : Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya became the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
Famous Birthdays – October 12
1537: Edward VI of England,King of England, Tudor dynasty.
1860: Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, the founder of Gyro Compass.
1866: Ramsay MacDonald, British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom.
1868: August Horch, founder of the Audi Motor Company.
1875: Aleister Crowley,English poet, mountaineer, and occultist.
1911: Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer, cricket critic, businessman and social activist.
1918: MA Chidambaram, Indian Industrialist, cricket administrator, and BCCI President.
1919: Vijaya Raje Scindia, Indian politician.
1921: Jayant Sridhar and Jayantrao Tilak, an Indian leader of the United Maharashtra Movement.
1922: Shanta Shelke, Indian poet and lyricist.
1938: Nida Fazli, a prominent Indian Hindi and Urdu poet, lyricist and dialogue writer.
1968: Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, and producer.
Death Anniversaries – October 12
1967: Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist leader, eminent parliamentarian, and writer.
1979: Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist, and chemist.
1996: Rene Lacoste, French lawn tennis player, and father of polo t-shirts.
1997: John Denver, an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer.
2011: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language.
2012: Sukhdev Singh Kang, Indian judge and politician.
