Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 14
October 14, 2024 is the 288th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 14
- 1586 –Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
- 1805 –Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
- 1884 –The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
- 1912 –While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
- 1944 –Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government.
- 1949 –Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
- 1952 –Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
- 1968 –An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
- 1968 –The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A.
- 1969 –The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
Who were born on October 14?
- 1404 –Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463)
- 1938 –John W. Dean III, American Watergate figure
- 1938 –Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
- 1946 –James Robert Kennedy, American football coach
- 1947 –Norman Harris, American musician (The Trammps)
- 1961 –Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer
- 1969 –P. J. Brown, American basketball player
- 1970 –Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor
- 1974 –Joseph Utsler, American musician
- 1978 –Javon Walker, American football player
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