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) Harry Anderson(1952–2018) ; Ralph Lauren(Lifschitz)–79 Gregory Evigan–65 Thomas Dolby(Robertson)–60 Isaac Mizrahi–57 Stephen Coogan–53 Karyn White–53 Usher Raymond IV–40 Maximillion Thieriot–30 ; 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