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Historical Events on October 14

  • Massachusetts

    1656

    Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.

  • American Revolutionary War

    1773

    Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.

  • American Civil War

    1863

    American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station: Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.

  • Korean War

    1952

    Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.

  • District of Columbia

    1958

    The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    1964

    Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

  • Vietnam War

    1967

    Vietnam War: American folk singer and activist Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.

  • Ronald Reagan

    1982

    U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi

    1991

    Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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