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10/14/2015
« on: October 14, 2015, 12:00:07 AM »
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2015, 02:35:49 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2015, 02:40:59 AM »
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2015, 02:42:18 AM »
Today is Wednesday, October 14, the 287th day of 2015. There are 78 days left in the year.
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2015, 02:43:16 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On October 14, 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, was born in Denison, Texas.
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2015, 02:43:43 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2015, 02:44:21 AM »
In 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2015, 02:44:48 AM »
In 1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I. (Mary was beheaded in February 1587.)
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2015, 02:45:12 AM »
In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the White House as the Progressive ("Bull Moose") candidate, went ahead with a speech in Milwaukee after being shot in the chest by New York saloonkeeper John Schrank, declaring, "It takes more than one bullet to kill a bull moose."
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2015, 02:46:04 AM »
In 1939, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland's Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed.
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2015, 02:46:38 AM »
In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face trial and certain execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2015, 02:47:39 AM »
In 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager (YAY'-gur) broke the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2015, 02:48:24 AM »
In 1959, actor Errol Flynn died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at age 50.
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2015, 02:48:56 AM »
In 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested the idea of a Peace Corps while addressing an audience of students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Re: 10/14/2015
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2015, 02:49:20 AM »
In 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
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