“Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.”
– George Sand

 

 

 

 

 

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14 October

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Happy Birthday: –

• Tian Xi Wei (1997) (28)
• Nobuyuki Suzuki (1992) (33)
• Chang Chen (1976) (49)
• Zhang Jiong MIn (1997) (28)
• Roy Chiu (1981)(44)
• Kang Ki Young  (1983)   (42)
• Kim Mi Kyung (1963) (62)

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On this day: –

• 1066 – William of Normandy defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings
• 1947 – Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier in his Bell X-1 rocket plane.
• 1964: Martin Luther King, Jr won the Nobel Peace Prize