Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/Date

October 14: Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States (2024); Thanksgiving in Canada (2024)

Roundhay Garden Scene

• 1758 – Third Silesian War: At the Battle of Hochkirch, an Austrian army under Leopold Joseph von Daun surprised the Prussians commanded by Frederick the Great, overwhelming them and forcing a general retreat.
• 1888 – French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene (pictured), the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England.
• 1956 – B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste, publicly converted to Buddhism and became the leader of the Dalit Buddhist movement.
• 2021 – Approximately 10,000 John Deere employees went on strike in one of the largest private-sector strikes in the United States.

• Antipope Dioscorus (d. 530)
• Jacques Arcadelt (d. 1568)
• Sumner Welles (b. 1892)
• Jessie Bonstelle (d. 1932)

More anniversaries:

• October 13
• October 14
• October 15

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