| 117481 | October 14 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball bearing factories in western Nazi Germany. |
| 117482 | October 14 | Event | 1943 – José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic). |
| 117483 | October 14 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head o |
| 117484 | October 14 | Event | 1944 – Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide. |
| 117485 | October 14 | Event | 1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern C |
| 117486 | October 14 | Event | 1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government. |
| 117487 | October 14 | Event | 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China. |
| 117488 | October 14 | Event | 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. |
| 117489 | October 14 | Event | 1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism). |
| 117490 | October 14 | Event | 1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the throne in Ottawa, Canada. |
| 117491 | October 14 | Event | 1957 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the Spanish city of Valencia's history. |
| 117492 | October 14 | Event | 1958 – The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas. |
| 117493 | October 14 | Event | 1958 – The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys. |
| 117494 | October 14 | Event | 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba. |
| 117495 | October 14 | Event | 1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. |
| 117496 | October 14 | Event | 1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies, such as Alexei Kosygin, the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader |
| 117497 | October 14 | Event | 1966 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system. |
| 117498 | October 14 | Event | 1967 – Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California. |
| 117499 | October 14 | Event | 1968 – Vietnam War: Twenty-seven soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. |
| 117500 | October 14 | Event | 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there. |
| 117501 | October 14 | Event | 1968 – Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit performed by the Apollo 7 crew. |
| 117502 | October 14 | Event | 1968 – An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads. |
| 117503 | October 14 | Event | 1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds. |
| 117504 | October 14 | Event | 1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit |
| 117505 | October 14 | Event | 1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government, 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers. |
| 117506 | October 14 | Event | 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people. |
| 117507 | October 14 | Event | 1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner. |
| 117508 | October 14 | Event | 1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. |
| 117509 | October 14 | Event | 1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. |
| 117510 | October 14 | Event | 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard. |