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Notable anniversaries in history for today: October 14
- 250th: 1774 - First Continental Congress is first to declare colonial rights (Philadelphia).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Robert Webber in Santa Ana, California, USA; TV actor (40-year career, over 500 appearances, 79 Park Avenue, Moonlighting).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Udo Kier in Germany; actor (Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein).
- 80th: 1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide at age 52 rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Adolf Hitler.
- 80th: 1944 - British forces liberate Athens, Greece.
- 80th: 1944 - England's Daily Mail newspaper reports interruption of all telephone service in Berlin for three days without explanation.
- 60th: 1964 - Martin Luther King Junior wins Nobel Peace Prize.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Natalie Maines; country singer (The Dixie Chicks).
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (born 1918).
- 40th: 1984 - Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres, four games to one in 81st World Series.
- 30th: 1994 - Mosaic Communications makes available the first 0.9 beta test version of the Mosaic Navigator Web browser software as a file download on the Internet. Versions are available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, and X Window environments. The software is free for personal use, or US$99 for commercial use.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania (born 1922).
- 20th: 2004 - Prince Norodom Sihamoni is chosen as the new king of Cambodia.
- 20th: 2004 - Intel announces it has scrapped plans to develop and release a 4 GHz Pentium 4 processor. Instead, it will focus on other ways to boost performance.
- 15th: 2009 - The Iraqi government reports that over 85,000 Iraqis were killed violently in Iraq between 2004 and 2008. The number does not include deaths in the first months of war in 2003, nor deaths due to causes other than war.
- 15th: 2009 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks through the 10,000 level for the first time in a year. The index has risen 52.9 percent since a 12-year low in March.
- 5th: 2019 - The Supreme Court of Spain sentences nine Catalan independence movement leaders to 9 to 13 years of prison for sedition and misuse of public funds.
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