This Day in History Oct. 14

Oct. 14

1773 Several of the East India Comp tea ships are set ablaze at the seaport of Annapolis, Ml
1774 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights (Phila)
1812 Work on London's Regent's Canal starts
1834 1st black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
1863 Confederate troops fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of Virginia
1867 15th & last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan
1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
1888 Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene
1910 Claude Grahame-White lands his biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House
1912 Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
1922 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
1933 Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
1938 The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane
1944 Linked to a plot to assassinate Hitler, Field Marshal Rommel is forced to commit suicide
1947 Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
1952 The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952 Korea
1953 Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment
1960 Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
1962 U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed in Cuba
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1968 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
1968 Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas
1975 Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside
1976 Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
1980 Pres nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court
1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
1987 In Midland, Tx 1 year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' down a well

You forgot one:

1965 - I was born.

Happy Birthday!
Your fiftieth; many happy returns and happy tractoring.

Thanks Hendrik - yeah this is a big one. Can't say I'm happy about it, but what can you do.

Thought I knew my history, but never realized Teddy Roosevelt had been shot. Interesting day, thanks for posting

Its nifty to be fifty
Happy Birthday

1946 - me too - birthday!

Happy Birthday to both of you.

1972--My wife and I were married. We still are.

Hey, Happy Birthday Ray.

A good day to be born.

1865--Treaty Council with Plains Indian tribes begins just North of what is now Wichita,Kansas; resulted in Treaty of Little Arkansas.

Teddy was shot and went ahead and did his speech he had planned before going to the hospital.
They could not remove the bullet. If I remember my history correctly.
Richard in NW SC