Random News and Notes 14 October
On this date:
- 1066 – William of Normandy defeats King Harold in the Battle of Hastings.
- 1651 – Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress.
- 1705 – The English Navy captures Barcelona in Spain.
- 1773 – Britain’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo is burned at Annapolis, Md.
- 1806 – Napoleon Bonaparte crushes the Prussian army at Jena, Germany.
- 1832 – Blackfeet Indians attack American Fur Company trappers near Montana’s Jefferson River, killing one.
- 1884 – Transparent paper-strip photographic film is patented by George Eastman.
- 1892 – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is published. The book was the first collection of Holmes stories, which Conan Doyle had been publishing in magazines since 1887.
- 1912 – Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insisted on finishing his speech.
- 1918 – mong the German wounded in the Ypres Salient in Belgium on is Corporal Adolf Hitler, temporarily blinded by a British gas shell and evacuated to a German military hospital at Pasewalk, in Pomerania.
- 1933 – The Geneva disarmament conference breaks up as Germany proclaims withdrawal from the disarmament initiative, as well as from the League of Nations, effective October 23. This begins German policy of independent action in foreign affairs.
- 1944 – German Field Marshal Rommel, suspected of complicity in the July 20th plot against Hitler, is visited at home by two of Hitler’s staff and given the choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chooses suicide and it is announced that he died of wounds.
- 1947 – Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier aboard a Bell X-1 rocket plane.
- 1950 – Chinese Communist Forces begin to infiltrate the North Korean Army.
- 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins; USAF U-2 reconnaissance pilot photographs Cubans installing Soviet-made missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
- 1964 – Rev. Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence.
- 1964 – Nikita Khrushchev is ousted as both premier of the Soviet Union and chief of the Communist Party after 10 years in power.
- 1968 – Jim Hines, USA, breaks the “ten-second barrier” in the 100-meter sprint at the Olympics in Mexico City; his time was 9.95.
- 1968 – US Defense Department announces 24,000 soldiers and Marines will be sent back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty.
- 1983 – Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice Bishop overthrown and later executed by a military coup.
- 1994 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres for establishing the Oslo Accords and preparing for Palestinian Self Government.
We start with the news of a small plane crash in Wisconsin. The Piper Malibu Mirage departed Kenosha Regional Airport bound for Menomonie but veered over Lake Delton before crashing near Park Lane in Dellona. Sauk County authorities confirmed five adults and one child died at the scene, with the wreckage found in woods and no ground injuries or property damage.
Sauk county Sheriff Chip Meister noted the plane was in contact with air traffic control prior to the incident, as the FAA and NTSB investigate communications and other factors.
A mother stabbed and killed her 3 year old son and husband. Metallica Rose Harrison, 27, from Towanda, stabbed her 36-year-old husband Charles and their 3-year-old son to death in their room at the Great Wolf Lodge in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains on October 12. The family had checked in on September 21 and extended their stay, with surveillance showing them entering the room together the night before and no one else coming or going.
Harrison faces two counts of criminal homicide; she told first responders, ‘It wasn’t supposed to end like this. I was supposed to have my happy family,’
This is what happens when you allow people like Lindsay Clancy to go free. These “women” need to be made an example of.
Apparently penguin poo is the latest driver of “climate change”. A study in the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences found that nutrients from penguin guano fertilize snow algae along the Antarctic Peninsula. These green blooms absorb up to 40 percent more sunlight than white snow, accelerating local melting.
Just leave the penguins alone.
About half of the girls cross country team at Camas high in Washington state decided not to race against a male competitor. The team saw about 13 of 24 runners walk off their October 13, 2026 race shortly after the start in protest against competing with a biological male teammate who switched from the boys’ squad midseason. The trans athlete finished 76th in a boys’ JV race on September 5 before switching and achieving top placements including first in a girls’ varsity dual meet and second in an invitational.
Well done those girls!