OCTOBER 14
1912:Former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank while campaigning in Milwaukee as a presidential candidate for the Progressive Party, aka the Bull Moose Party. Roosevelt calmly delivers a speech, despite having a bullet — slowed by his eyeglasses case and speech manuscript — lodged in his chest. "It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose," he says.
1834: Henry Blair receives a patent for a corn seed planter; he is the second African American to receive a patent and the only inventor identified by race in U.S. Patent Office records.
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to achieve human rights and democracy in military junta-controlled Burma. Suu Kyi does not receive her award because she is held under house arrest; she would finally receive the prize in June 2012.
1947: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier.
1926:The first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London.
1812:Work begins on the Manmade Regent's Canal in London.
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