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World
Standards Day
World
Standards Day is celebrated internationally
each year on 14 October. The day honours the
efforts of the thousands of experts who develop
voluntary standards within standards development
organizations such as the International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC), International Organization
for Standardization (ISO), International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) and the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF). The aim of World Standards
Day is to raise awareness among regulators,
industry and consumers as to the importance
of standardization to the global economy.
14
October was specifically chosen to mark the
date, in 1946, when delegates from 25 countries
first gathered in London and decided to create
an international organization focused on facilitating
standardization. Even though ISO was formed
one year later, it wasn't until 1970 that
the first World Standards Day was celebrated.
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β Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's
Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he
had stabilized the Saturday fast three times
per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be
consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded
by cardinal Urban I.
1066 β Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings
β In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from
Hastings, the Norman forces of William the
Conqueror defeat the English army and kill
King Harold II of England.
1322 β Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats
King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing
Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1465 β Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos,
younger brother of Vlad Ε’epeΕ, issues a writ
from his residence in Bucharest
1582 β Because of the implementation of the
Gregorian calendar this day does not exist
in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and
Spain.
1586 β Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial
for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656 β Massachusetts enacts the first punitive
legislation against the Religious Society
of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state
in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers
as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1758 β Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia
at the Battle of Hochkirk.
1773 β The first recorded Ministry of Education,
the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for
Commission of National Education), is formed
in the PolishβLithuanian Commonwealth.
1773 β Just before the beginning of the American
Revolutionary War, several of the British
East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze
at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
1805 β Battle of Elchingen, France defeats
Austria.
1806 β Battle of Jena-AuerstΓ€dt France defeats
Prussia.
1808 β The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by
France.
1812 β Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
1840 β The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders
to the British Army and then is sent into
exile on the islands of Malta.
1843 β The British arrest the Irish nationalist
Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit
crimes.
1863 β American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe
Station β Confederate troops under the command
of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the
American Union Army completely out of the
Commonwealth of Virginia.
1867 β The 15th and the last military Shogun
of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan,
returning his power to the Emperor of Japan
and thence to the re-established civil government
of Japan
1882 β University of the Punjab is founded
in a part of India that later became West
Pakistan.
1884 β The American inventor, George Eastman,
receives a U.S. Government patent on his new
paper-strip photographic film.
1888 β Louis Le Prince films first motion
picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1898 β The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after
impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United
Kingdom, killing 106.
1908 β The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit
Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It
would be their last one to date.
1910 β The English aviator Claude Grahame-White
lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive
Avenue near the White House in Washington,
D.C..
1912 β While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
the former President of the United States,
Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded
by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon
keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest,
and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt
still carries out his scheduled public speech.
1913 β Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United
Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs,
and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
1920 β Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by
the Soviet Union to Finland.
1925 β An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied
Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee
the city.)
1926 β The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh,
by A. A. Milne, is first published.
1933 β Nazi Germany withdraws from The League
of Nations.
1938 β The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft
Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
1939 β The German submarine U-47 sinks the
British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her
harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1940 β Balham subway station disaster, in
London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe
air raids on Great Britain.
1943 β Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor
extermination camp in Poland revolt against
the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and
wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor
Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50
of these survive the end of the war.
1943 β The American Eighth Air Force loses
60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial
combat during the second mass-daylight air
raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories
in western Nazi Germany.
1943 β JosΓ© P. Laurel takes the oath of office
as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine
Republic).
1944 β Athens, Greece, is liberated by British
Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht
pulls out during World War II. This clears
the way for the Greek government-in-exile
to return to its historic capital city, with
George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government.
1947 β Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air
Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental
aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than
the speed of sound - over the high desert
of Southern California - and becomes the first
pilot and the first airplane to do so in level
flight.
1949 β Eleven leaders of the American Communist
Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial
in a Federal District Court, of conspiring
to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S.
Federal Government.
1949 β Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist
forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton),
in Guangdong, China.
1952 β Korean War: United Nations and South
Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against
Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle.
The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the
biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1956 β Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable
caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with
385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1957 β Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first
Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session
of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her
Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
1958 β The American Atomic Energy Commission,
with supporting military units, carries out
an underground nuclear weapon test at the
Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas,
Nevada.
1958 β The District of Columbia's Bar Association
votes to accept African-Americans as member
attorneys.
1962 β The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A
U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and
its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and
take photographs of Soviet missiles capable
of carrying nuclear warheads being installed
and erected in Cuba.
1964 β Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, and thereby, along with his allies
- such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR),
ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita
Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement
as a nonperson in the USSR.
1966 β The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins
the operation of its underground Montreal
Metro rapid-transit system.
1967 β The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan
Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade
of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland,
California.
1968 β Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested
at the Presidio of San Francisco in California
for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions
and the Vietnam War.
1968 β Vietnam War: The United States Department
of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and
U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers
and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary
second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
1968 β The first live telecast from a manned
spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
of the U.S.A.
1968 β An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter
Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering,
Western Australia, and it also ruptures all
nearby main highways and railroads.
1968 β Jim Hines of the United States of America
becomes the first man ever to break the so-called
"ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter
sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in
Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1969 β The United Kingdom introduces the British
fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the
following years, the British ten-shilling
note, in anticipation of the decimalization
of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition
of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere
in the world.
1973 β In the Thammasat student uprising over
100,000 people protest in Thailand against
the Thanom military government; 77 are killed
and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1979 β The first Gay Rights March on Washington,
D.C., the National March on Washington for
Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end
to all social, economic, judicial, and legal
oppression of lesbian and gay people",
and draws 200,000 people.
1981 β Citing official misconduct in the investigation
and trial, Amnesty International charges the
U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard
Marshall[disambiguation needed ] of the American
Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1981 β Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected
as the President of Egypt one week after the
assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar
Sadat.
1982 β U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims
a War on Drugs.
1983 β Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada,
is overthrown and later executed in a military
coup d'Γ©tat led by Bernard Coard.
1994 β The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat,
The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin,
and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon
Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their
role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords
and the framing of the future Palestinian
Self Government.
1998 β Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with
six bombings including the 1996 Centennial
Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 β Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes
infamously known as the scapegoat for the
Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League
Championship Series to the Florida Marlins.
This has become known as the Steve Bartman
incident.
2006 β College football brawl between University
of Miami and Florida International University
leads to suspensions of 31 players of both
teams.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Angadrisma
Fortunatus of Todi
Pope Callistus I
October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Cathedral of Living Pillar (Georgian
Orthodox Church)
Mother's Day (Belarus)
National Education Day, formerly Teachers'
Day (Poland)
Nyerere Day (Tanzania)
World Standards Day (International)
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