History Blog

October 14

Happy Birthday RIP David Dwight Eisenhower(1890–1969) Lillian Gish(1893–1993) Charles Everett Koop(1916–2013) Sir Roger Moore(1927–2017) ; Ralph Lauren(Lifschitz)–78 Harry Anderson–65 Gregory Evigan–64 Thomas Dolby(Robertson)–59 Isaac Mizrahi–56 Stephen Coogan–52 Karyn White–52 Usher Raymond IV–39 Maximillion Thieriot–29 ; 1926 – The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published ; 1964 – Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence