On this day: October 14

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October 14

Death of Harold on the Bayeux Tapestry​

• 1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's forces defeated the English army near Hastings and killed Harold Godwinson (event pictured), the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England.
• 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French forces under Marshal Michel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen, present-day Germany.
• 1913 – The worst mining accident in the United Kingdom's history took place when an explosion resulted in 440 deaths at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, Wales.
• 1943 – The Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, was established with Jose P. Laurel as its first president.
• 1964 – Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replace him with Leonid Brezhnev.

• Charles de Tricornot de Rose (b. 1876)
• Mohamed Saïl (b. 1894)
• Marie Lang (d. 1934)
• Wu Yize (b. 2003)

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• October 13
• October 14
• October 15

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