October 14th

October 14 is the 288th day of the year.  There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year.

1066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England when Harold II [Godwinson], King of England (1066), loses it

1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence

1908 Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series, before the smallest crowd ever at a World Series, 6,210

1916 The Perm State University is founded in Russia.

1947 Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound--a common complaint of his bed partners

1958 Brendan Behan's "Hostage" premieres in London

1961 "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens at 46th St. New York City for 1,415 performances

1979 The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people.

1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs. And how does that go?

1998 Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. Another really cute but really bad boy who's probably a secret radical Islamist.

1927 Sir Roger Moore, English actor /Simon Templar/James Bond 

1937 Carroll Ballard, maybe gay US film director 

1940 Sir Cliff Richard, maybe gay English singer/famous Christian  

1944 Udo Kier, gay German actor 

1953 Greg Evigan, US actor 

1961 Isaac Mizrahi, gay US fashion designer 

1962 Trevor Goddard, English boxer/actor 

1965 Steve Coogan, English actor 

1964 Alexandre Frota, Brazilian actor turned porn actor turned religious 

1966 Edward Kerr, maybe gay US (MO) actor 

1966 David Bradley, gay US pornographic actor 

1969 David Strickland, maybe gay US actor/Suddenly Susan actor who committed suicide 

1970 Jon Seda, US actor 

1970 Paul Fitzgerald, maybe gay US actor/director 

1975 Floyd Landis, disgraced US cyclist 

1976 Bas Muijs, maybe gay Dutch actor 

1977 Joseph Kaiser, maybe gay Canadian opera tenor 

1978 [Raymond] Usher, US singer 

1978 José Luis Reséndez, Mexican model/actor (Big Brother Mexico) 

1980 Ben Whishaw, gay English actor 

1980 Fabrizio & Fernando Mangiatti, gay Hungarian pornographic actors 

1959 Errol Flynn, bisexual Australian-born US actor (Captain Blood), gets his swash buckled

1990 Leonard Bernstein, bisexual US composer, goes somewhere

2006 Gerry Studds, first out [unwilling] US Representative (D-MA), looks faaa-bulous in his new robe

2010 Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (Falcon Crest, Death on the Nile, Manimal, Casualty), travels the way to dusty death.