October 14 birthdays & history

Famous people born on October 14

• 1890Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States
• 1906Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist
• 1893Lillian Gish, American actress
• 1927Roger Moore, English actor and producer
• 1993Charlie Kirk, American media personality and political activist
• 1978Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1888Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist
• 1644William Penn, English businessman who founded Pennsylvania
• 1914Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1894E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright

What happened on October 14

• 1884George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• 1888French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England.
• 1910English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
• 1920Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.
• 1926The first book featuring English author A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was published.
• 1943The Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, was established with Jose P. Laurel as its first president.
• 1947American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.06 on board the Bell X-1, an experimental rocket-powered aircraft.
• 1956The Queen Elizabeth Way, North America's first intercity divided highway, opens.
• 1956B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste, publicly converted to Buddhism and became the leader of the Dalit Buddhist movement.
• 1964Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replace him with Leonid Brezhnev.
• 1980The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party concluded, having anointed North Korean president Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il as his successor.
• 2012Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere to become the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.

Also observed on October 14

• Day of the Cathedral of the Living Pillar (Georgian Orthodox Church)
• Mother's Day (Belarus)
• National Education Day (Poland), formerly Teachers' Day
• Nyerere Day (Tanzania)
• Second Revolution Day (Yemen)
• World Standards Day (International)