16 October 1847<\/h3>\n
An unknown author called Currer Bell \u2013 actually the young Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/a> \u2013 publishes her debut novel, Jane Eyre<\/em><\/p>\n Irish patriot Eamon de Valera is born in New York.<\/p>\n The British battleship HMS Royal Oak<\/em> was sunk at Scapa Flow by German submarine U-47, commanded by Lieutenant Gunther Prien. 833 men lost their lives.<\/p>\n When a Luftwaffe bomb falls on Balham tube station, one of the tunnels collapses, killing 66 people who were sheltering from the air raid.<\/p>\n Listeners to the BBC Nine O\u2019Clock News were intrigued to hear a mystery voice, which attempted to pass acerbic comments on the items being read. Newsreader Alvar Lidell carried on as usual but eventually announced: \u201cYou may be able to hear an interruption to this programme. Do not listen to this voice \u2013 it is the voice of the enemy\u201d. Further attempts to disrupt news broadcasts were made in this manner over the next few nights and the voices continued intermittently until early December when they were finally silenced by BBC engineers.<\/p>\n Browse more\u00a0On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> By Dominic Sandbrook Published: Thursday, 14 October 2021 at 12:00 am 14 October 1318 Edward Bruce, brother of Robert, is defeated and killed at Faughartnear Dundalk by an Anglo-Irish force under John of Birmingham. His defeat is a blow to the Bruces\u2019 policy of uniting the Celtic peoples of Britain against English domination. 14 October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6348,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/14-october-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/14-october-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/14-october-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/14-october-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/14-october-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/14-october-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/14-october-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Dominic Sandbrook Published: Thursday, 14 October 2021 at 12:00 am 14 October 1318 Edward Bruce, brother of Robert, is defeated and killed at Faughartnear Dundalk by an Anglo-Irish force under John of Birmingham. His defeat is a blow to the Bruces\u2019 policy of uniting the Celtic peoples of Britain against English domination. 14 October…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/6347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}14 October\u00a01882<\/h3>\n
14 October 1939<\/h3>\n
14 October 1940<\/h3>\n
14 October 1941<\/h3>\n
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