October 14: Facts & Historical Events On This Day

Post Malone won Artist of the Year and eight other awards at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards.

The Serbia v Albania qualifying match for the UEFA Euro soccer cup was canceled mid-game.

The match was canceled 42 minutes into the game after fans from both sides repeatedly burst onto the playing field and started fights. However, Serbia was awarded the win, as Albania refused to continue playing after fans attacked their players. Both teams were fined €100,000.

American reality show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” premiered on the E! Network.

NASA’s space probe Magellan burned in the Venus atmosphere.

Magellan's main job was to map out the planet, and it successfully carried out the mission before losing contact.

Up to 125,000 people marched in the first LGBT civil rights march in Washington, D.C.

Queen Elizabeth II officially reopened London’s Euston Railway Station.

The sooty, dilapidated station closed down in 1953 for a complete refurbishing, expansion, and modernization that took six years to complete.

African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize.

He was just 35 years and the youngest person to ever win the prize at that time.

Queen Elizabeth II personally opened the 23rd parliamentary session in Canada, the first and only time for her.

US Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager became the first-ever person to break the speed of sound, flying the Bell X-1 at 662 miles per hour.

The feat was not publicly announced until June the following year.

The Blitz bombing of London’s Balham Tube Station was bombed, killing over 60 people.

After the blast, the water mains were damaged, and a tunnel was filled with water. Around 300 escaped, but up to 68 people died, mostly from drowning.

The original “Winnie the Pooh” novel written by A. A. Milne was released.

Former US President Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech immediately after being shot.

While campaigning for the Presidency, Roosevelt was approached by a crazed man who thought that the ghost of a previous US President wanted him to shoot Roosevelt. A folded 50-page copy of Roosevelt's speech and his steel glasses case partially stopped the bullet. After determining that he was not fatally wounded, Roosevelt delivered his speech and only afterward accepted medical attention.

The detective novel “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle was published.

The short stories series was first published in The Strand Magazine.

Inventor George Eastman patented his 35mm photographic film in the US.

William the Conqueror defeated English forces at The Battle of Hastings.

His Norman army defeated the local English Anglo-Saxon forces while killing their king, Harold II, in the process. Up to 25,000 men were lost. It was a pivotal battle that started the Norman domination of the island.