Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 14 [ talk · edit · history ] 1066 – Norman Conquest : William the Conqueror 's forces defeated the English army near Hastings and killed Harold Godwinson (event pictured) , the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. 1805 – War of the Third Coalition : French forces under Marshal Michel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen , present-day Germany. 1913 – The worst mining accident in the United Kingdom's history took place when an explosion resulted in 440 deaths at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd , Wales. 1943 – The Second Philippine Republic , a Japanese puppet state , was established with Jose P. Laurel as its first president. 1964 – Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replace him with Leonid Brezhnev .

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