On October 14, 1962, a United States Air Force U-2 plane on a photoreconnaissance mission captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_missile_crisis
The 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) on the 14th October, 1960, defines the metre to be equal to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre
General Sir Edward Sabine (14 October 1788 - 26 June 1883) was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Sabine
Asteroid (176) Iduna was discovered by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on October 14, 1877, in Clinton, New York. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/176_Iduna