- 1066 14 Oct William, Duke of Normandy, defeats and kills Harold II of England at the Battle of Hastings.
- 1947 14 Oct US pilot Chuck Yeager becomes the first man to break the sound barrier, in the aircraft Bell X1.
- 1962 14 Oct US spy planes detect Soviet nuclear weapons sites on Cuba, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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