October 14 in history: • 1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's forces defeated the English army at Hastings and killed Harold Godwinson (depicted), the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. → go there • 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French forces under Marshal Michel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen, present-day Germany. → go there • 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. → go there • 1943 – The Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, was established with Jose P. Laurel as its first president. → go there • 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. → go there Died 1770: Benning Wentworth Wiki link Born 1845: Laura Askew Haygood Wiki link Born 1947: Charlie Joiner Wiki link Died 2015: Mathieu Kérékou Wiki link Pictured: Battle of Hastings, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.