Sunday, October 14, 2018

History for October 14

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History for October 14 - On-This-Day.com
Dwight David Eisenhower 1890 - 34th president of the United States, E.E. Cummings 1894, John Wooden 1910
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C. Everett Koop 1916, Roger Moore 1927 - Actor ("Live and Let Die," "For Your Eyes Only"), Usher 1978 - Singer
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1947 - Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier.
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1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missile sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordered the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
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