Immediately is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2025. There are 78 days left within the 12 months.
Immediately in historical past:
On Oct. 14, 1947, U.S. Air Pressure Capt. Chuck Yeager turned the primary particular person to interrupt the sound barrier as he flew a Bell X-1 rocket airplane over Muroc Dry Lake in California. In 2012, Yeager, on the age of 89, marked the sixty fifth anniversary of that flight by smashing by the sound barrier once more, this time within the backseat of an F-15.
Additionally on this date:
In 1066, Normans below William the Conqueror defeated the English on the Battle of Hastings.
In 1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason towards Queen Elizabeth I. (Mary was beheaded in February 1587.)
In 1910, aviator Claude Grahame-White flew his biplane over Washington, D.C., and landed it on West Government Avenue, subsequent to the White Home.
In 1944, German Subject Marshal Erwin Rommel took his personal life reasonably than face trial and sure execution for allegedly conspiring towards Adolf Hitler.
In 1964, civil rights chief Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1964, in one of many best upsets in Olympic historical past, American Billy Mills, an Oglala Lakota, received the ten,000-meter race on the Tokyo Summer time Video games, setting a brand new Olympic file.
In 1981, the brand new president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak (HOHS’-nee moo-BAH’-rahk), was sworn in to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
In 1986, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel (EL’-ee vee-ZEHL’) was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2008, a grand jury in Orlando, Florida, returned prices of first-degree homicide, aggravated youngster abuse and aggravated manslaughter towards Casey Anthony within the demise of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. (She was acquitted in July 2011.)
In 2024, a House X rocket launched the NASA spacecraft Europa Clipper on a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to find out whether or not situations there might help life; the spacecraft will arrive in 2030.
Immediately’s Birthdays:
- Former White Home counsel John W. Dean III is 87.
- Dressmaker Ralph Lauren is 86.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Charlie Joiner is 78.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Beth Daniel is 69.
- Musician Thomas Dolby is 67.
- Dressmaker Isaac Mizrahi is 64.
- Actor Steve Coogan is 60.
- TV host Stephen A. Smith is 58.
- Nation singer Natalie Maines (The Chicks) is 51.
- Actor Chang Chen is 49.
- Singer Usher is 47.
- Actor-comedian Jay Pharoah is 38.
