OCTOBER 14
1066:The Normans, under William the Conqueror, defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
1933:Nazi Germany withdrew from the Geneva disarmament conference and the League of Nations.
1947:U.S. Air Force Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound.
1964:Martin Luther King, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in civil rights.
1968:The first live telecast from a staffed U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1990:Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.
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