Once Upon A Time – October 14 – 1867 – 15th And Last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu Resigns In Japan

1066 Battle of Hastings: William, Duke of Normandy and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who is killed in the battle

1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence

1774 1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia

1867 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan

1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1933 Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations

1982 US President Reagan proclaims a war on drugs

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Today in Film & TV

1930 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin’s musical “Girl Crazy” starring Ginger Rogers and featuring debut of Ethel Merman, opens at the Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for 272 performances

2007 “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” featuring Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian premieres on the E! cable network in the US

Today in Sport

1991 NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner becomes 1st NHL player to score his 500th goal, 500th assist, and 1000th point all in the same season

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1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” collection of 12 stories originally published serially in “The Strand Magazine”

Famous Weddings

1806 German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe marries mistress Christiane Vulpius in Weimar

1913 Athlete Jim Thorpe (25) weds Margaret Iva Miller at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

1923 German “All Quiet on the Western Front” author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds German actress Ilse Jutta Zambona; divorce in

1930, remarry in 1938, re-divorce in 1957