Daily Calendar for Wednesday, October 14, 2026
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Born
- William Penn (Quaker; founder of Pennsylvania, named in honor of his father) –
- Francis Lightfoot Lee (American Revolutionary leader) –
- Sir Edward Sabine (astronomer) –
- Ray Ewry (track and field star) –
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th U.S. president) –
- e. e. cummings (poet) –
- Eugene Fodor (travel writer) –
- Charles Everett Koop (U.S. Surgeon General) –
- Roger Moore (actor) –
- Ralph Lauren (designer) –
- Sheila Young (speed skater, cyclist) –
- Harry Anderson (actor) –
- Usher (singer) –
- Jordan Brower (actor) –
Died
- Bing Crosby (singer) –
- Cleveland Amory (critic and animal rights activist) –
- Lou Albano (American professional wrestler, manager and actor) –
Events
- While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt was shot by William Schrank –
- First contingent of Canadian Expeditionary Force arrived in England, during WWI –
- A. A. Milne’s classic, Winnie-the-Pooh, was published –
- Poland presented 5.5 million goodwill signatures to the United States for 150th anniversary of American independence –
- Girl Crazy by George Gershwin opened at the Alvin Theatre in New York –
- German U-boat sank passenger ferry S.S. Caribou in Cabot Strait –
- Charles Yeager, piloting a Bell X-1 jet, became the first person to break the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.06 –
- Queen Elizabeth II began Canadian tour –
- Eighteen-month old Jessica McClure (Baby Jessica) fell down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas –
- The Illinois Natural Resources Department confirmed that a 17-inch fish caught in Chicago’s Burnham Harbor in Lake Michigan was an invasive snakehead, a feared Frankenfish known to eat native fish and compete with them for food –
- A Ghanaian-registered Boeing 747 cargo jet crashed and burned on take off from Halifax airport in eastern Canada –
- The United States Air Force Memorial was dedicated, Arlington, Virginia –
- Khagendra Thapa Magar, from Pokhara, Nepal, turned 18 years old and was certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s shortest living man, at 26.4 inches tall. –
- Video tweet was posted of a miniature horse seen in the back seat of a neighboring car in Iowa –
Weather
- Hail in southern Oklahoma caused major crop and property damage –
- The first regularly scheduled television weathercast was seen on WNBT (later, WNBC) in New York City. –
- Albany, New York, had a temperature of 21 degrees F –