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)–82 Gregory Evigan–68 Thomas Dolby(Robertson)–63 Isaac Mizrahi–60 Stephen Coogan–56 Karyn White–56 Usher Raymond IV–43 Maximillion Thieriot–33 ; 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