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Today in history

  • 1536

    Garcilaso de la Vega – On the 14th of October 1536 Garcilaso de la Vega passes away in Nice, France [Nice, France]

  • 1735

    John Wesley – On October the 14th 1735 Wesley and his brother Charles sail to Savannah, Georgia [Savannah, Georgia, United States]

  • 1772

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – On the 14th of October 1772 Goethe holds a gathering in his parental home in honour of the first German "Shakespeare Day" [Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany]

  • 1806

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – On the 14th of October 1806 Goethe marries Christiane Vulpius [Weimar, Thuringia, Germany]

  • 1888

    Katherine Mansfield – On the 14th of October 1888 Katherine Mansfield is born in Wellington, New Zealand [Wellington, New Zealand]

  • 1894

    e.e. cummings – On October the 14th 1894 E.E. Cummings is born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States [Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States]

  • 1919

    Marcus Garvey – On the 14th of October 1919 Garvey is shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by George Tyler [New York, United States]

  • 1965

    Randall Jarrell – On October the 14th, 1965 at the age of 51 Randall Jarrell passes away Chapel Hill, North Carolina [Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States]

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