Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 14
October 14: Simchat Torah in Judaism begins at sunset (2006), Teachers' Day in Poland.
- 1066 - Battle of Hastings: The Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror (pictured) defeated the English army and killed Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England.
- 1773 - The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, was formed in Poland.
- 1947 - Flying a Bell X-1, test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.
- 1953 - Qibya massacre: Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 special forces were ordered to "inflict heavy damage on the inhabitants" of a village on the West Bank.
- 1981 - Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
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