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October 14

1994
First woman to walk around the world: 27-year-old Briton Ffyona Campbell completes her 11-year journey when she arrived in John O'Groat's Scotland.

1992
World's most prolific serial killer: Andrei Chikatilo, a Russia school teacher, is convicted of dismembering and cannibalizing 52 women and children over a 12-year period. He was executed in 1994. Another man had already been mistakenly executed for these crimes.

1972
Kung Fu  The TV series debuts on ABC, starring David Carradine as Cain, alias Grasshopper.

1968
First TV broadcast from space, from Apollo 7.

1964
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The black civil-rights leader is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: The U.S. Air Force photographs Soviet missiles and a Soviet nuclear missile construction site in Cuba.

1950
The Adventures of Ellery Queen debuts on DuMont.

1947
First level supersonic flight: Charles E. Yeager reaches Mach 1.015 at during level flight at 42,000 feet.

1912
Pres. Roosevelt shot: The president is shot in chest by John Schrank in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he insisted on delivering his speech before being taken to the hospital.

1656
Massachusetts enacts a fine for harboring Quakers. Quakers entering the jurisdiction after punishment would lose one ear. For the second offense they would lose the other ear, and for the third offense their tongue would be bored through with a hot iron.

1952
Harry Anderson, American actor. TV: Night Court (Judge Stone).

1939
Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer.

1927
Roger Moore, English actor. Film: The James Bond movies (1973-85, "Bond, James Bond"). TV: The Saint (Simon Templar).

1916
C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General.

1910
John Wooden, American basketball Hall of Fame player and Hall of Fame coach (He was the first person to achieve both honors), winner of 10 NCAA National Championships while at UCLA. generally considered the greatest coach in history. Quote: Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. (source: Fifth 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said)

1896     d. 1993
Lillian Gish, American actress. Film: Birth of a Nation (1915).

1894     d. 1962
e.e. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings), American poet. Writings: The Enormous Room (1922) describing his imprisonment by the French after being mistaken for a spy.

1890     d. 1969
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President (1953-61) and 5-star general. He was the first president to conduct a televised news conference.

1877     d. 1936
Grace Gebbie Wiedersheim Drayton, cartoonist, famous for her drawings of The Campbell Kids (1905).

1857     d. 1925
Elwood Haynes, American automobile pioneer. He developed the first U.S. automobile (1894). He also discovered tungsten chrome steel (1881) and patented stainless steel (1919). (source: Myth Information: More Than 590 Popular Misconceptions, Fallacies, and Misbeliefs Explained!)

1784     d. 1833
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (1808-33). It was during his rule that most of the Spanish possessions in Latin America rebelled and won their independence.

1644     d. 1718
William Penn, English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania. He was expelled from the Christ Church College, Oxford in 1662 and jailed several times for his religious beliefs.

1990     b. 1918
Leonard Bernstein, American Emmy-Grammy-winning conductor, composer. Music: West Side Story (1957).

1986     b. 1916
Keenan Wynn (Francis Wynn), American actor. TV: Dallas (Digger Barnes). He appeared in over 200 films.

1983     b. 1899
Pat O'Brien, American actor. Film: Angels With Dirty Faces (1938, Father Connolly) and Knute Rockne - All American (1940, title role).

1977     b. 1904
Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby), American Oscar-winning singer. Film: Going My Way (1944, Oscar as Father O'Malley). His 1942 recording of White Christmas sold 25,000,000 copies.

1959     b. 1909
Errol Flynn, American swashbuckling actor, known for both his on and off-screen performances.

1929     b. 1854
Joe Borden, American baseball player, pitched the first National League no-hitter (1876, for Boston).

1925     b. 1867
Eugene Sandow, German strongman, "Father of Modern Bodybuilding." He organized the first bodybuilding contest (1901 ) with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as one of the judges.

1790     b. 1742
William Hooper, American statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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