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| October 14 is the 288th day of the year. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England when Harold II [Godwinson], King of England (1066), loses it |
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| 1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence |
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| 1908 Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series, before the smallest crowd ever at a World Series, 6,210 |
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| 1916 The Perm State University is founded in Russia. |
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| 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 |
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| 1958 Brendan Behan's "Hostage" premieres in London |
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| 1961 "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens at 46th St. New York City for 1,415 performances |
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| 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. |
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| 1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs. And how does that go? |
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| 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. |
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| 1927 Sir Roger Moore, English actor /Simon Templar/James Bond |
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| 1937 Carroll Ballard, maybe gay US film director |
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| 1940 Sir Cliff Richard, maybe gay English singer/famous Christian |
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| 1944 Udo Kier, gay German actor |
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| 1953 Greg Evigan, US actor |
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| 1961 Isaac Mizrahi, gay US fashion designer |
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| 1962 Trevor Goddard, English boxer/actor |
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| 1965 Steve Coogan, English actor |
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| 1964 Alexandre Frota, Brazilian actor turned porn actor turned religious |
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| 1966 Edward Kerr, maybe gay US (MO) actor |
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| 1966 David Bradley, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1969 David Strickland, maybe gay US actor/Suddenly Susan actor who committed suicide |
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| 1970 Jon Seda, US actor |
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| 1970 Paul Fitzgerald, maybe gay US actor/director |
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| 1975 Floyd Landis, disgraced US cyclist |
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| 1976 Bas Muijs, maybe gay Dutch actor |
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| 1977 Joseph Kaiser, maybe gay Canadian opera tenor |
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| 1978 [Raymond] Usher, US singer |
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| 1978 José Luis Reséndez, Mexican model/actor (Big Brother Mexico) |
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| 1980 Ben Whishaw, gay English actor |
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| 1980 Fabrizio & Fernando Mangiatti, gay Hungarian pornographic actors |
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| 1959 Errol Flynn, bisexual Australian-born US actor (Captain Blood), gets his swash buckled |
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| 1990 Leonard Bernstein, bisexual US composer, goes somewhere |
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| 2006 Gerry Studds, first out [unwilling] US Representative (D-MA), looks faaa-bulous in his new robe |
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| 2010 Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (Falcon Crest, Death on the Nile, Manimal, Casualty), travels the way to dusty death. |
