What happened on 14 October?

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

1. 1066 Battle of Hastings William of Normandy defeats Harold Godwinson on Senlac Hill; Harold killed and the throne falls to William.
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. 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.
11. 1913 Senghenydd colliery disaster An explosion kills 439 miners near Caerphilly, the worst mining disaster in British history.
12. 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.
13. 1768 The Duke of Grafton's premiership Grafton presides over the Wilkes crisis and the Townshend duties before resigning under pressure.