On this day in History - October 14

1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.

1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

1966 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.