Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is Oct. 14. On the day Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, violence flared anew in the Middle East. The kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian extremists ended with the soldier and four others being killed in a shootout. Advertisement Thirty years earlier, on this date in 1964, the Nobel Perace Prize went to African-American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. At 35 years of age, the Georgia-born minister was the youngest person ever to receive the award. The Norman invasion of England was capped on this date in 1066, when the invading forces -- led by William, Duke of Normandy -- defeated England's King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. Crowned King William I, he's known to history as William the Conqueror. Three years of occupation of Greece by the forces of Nazi Germany ended on this date in 1944, when British and Greek troops liberated Athens. Advertisement Former President Theodore Roosevelt was one tough dude. On this date in 1912, he was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee for a return to the White House. T.R. refused to have the wound treated until he finished his speech. 24-year-old Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager -- flying a Bell X-1 -- became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound on this day in 1947. The event took place in the skies high above the California desert and Edwards Air Force Base. On this date in 1992 the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Oakland A's, 4 games to 2, to win the American League pennant and become the first Canadian team to go to the World Series. The Jays went on to win the championship. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
