What happened on 14 October?

17 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1066 Battle of Hastings William of Normandy defeats Harold Godwinson, who is killed; the victory opens the way to the Norman conquest of England.
2. 1962 U-2 photographs reveal Soviet missiles in Cuba Major Richard Heyser's U-2 spyplane crosses western Cuba in six minutes and comes home with 928 photographs. At San Cristóbal, the interpreters find canvas-covered trailers exactly
3. 1964 Brezhnev's leadership of the Soviet Union Eighteen years of stability and stagnation: detente, the Brezhnev Doctrine, Prague and the invasion of Afghanistan.
4. 1806 Battle of Jena-Auerstedt Napoleon crushes Prussia in a single day; triggers reformist response by Stein and Hardenberg.
5. 1973 Nickel Grass: the American airlift With Israel burning through munitions at rates no one had modelled and the Soviets resupplying the Arab armies, Nixon orders an all-out airlift — 'send everything that can fly' — t
6. 1897 The suffragists unite under Fawcett Millicent Fawcett unites Britain's constitutional suffrage societies into the NUWSS — the 'suffragists', who will petition, lobby and march within the law for thirty years and grow
7. 1633 Born: James II of England Catholic Stuart whose attempt to restore royal absolutism triggered the Glorious Revolution.
8. 1994 Pulp Fiction released Tarantino's non-linear LA crime film; transformed independent cinema in the 1990s.
9. 1843 Mendelssohn's Wedding March Iconic wedding march written as incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
10. 1964 King awarded the Nobel Peace Prize At 35, King becomes the youngest laureate to that date, honoured for non-violent resistance to racial injustice; he gives the prize money to the movement.
11. 1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations Hitler pulls Germany out of the League and the disarmament talks, an early signal of revisionist intent.
12. 1913 Senghenydd colliery disaster An explosion kills 439 miners near Caerphilly, the worst mining disaster in British history.
13. 1956 Ambedkar converts to Buddhism At Nagpur, weeks before his death, Ambedkar and some 400,000 followers renounce Hinduism and embrace Buddhism — the start of the Dalit Buddhist movement.
14. 1926 Winnie-the-Pooh published A. A. Milne's bear — named for a Canadian soldier's cub, Winnipeg, at London Zoo — enters the world's nurseries for good.
15. 1944 Rommel's forced suicide Implicated in the 20 July plot, Rommel is given a choice by two generals at his home: poison and a state funeral, or a trial and his family's ruin. He takes the poison.
16. 1997 Feel So Good (Mase) Kool & the Gang-sampling shiny-suit hit.
17. 1768 The Duke of Grafton's premiership Grafton presides over the Wilkes crisis and the Townshend duties before resigning under pressure.