Today in History: October 14

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS – In 1912, United States President Theodore Roosevelt was shot in an assassination attempt in Milwaukee.

His thick coat and a bundle of paper in his breast pocket saved his life, allowing him to escape with only a flesh wound.

He went on to deliver his scheduled speech with the bullet still in his body.

In 1947 American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.

For many years, aviators believed man wasn’t meant to fly faster than the speed of sound, but that changed on this day in 1947, when Yeager flew the X-1 over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California.

Baptist minister and social activist Martin Luther King, Jr., was named winner of the Nobel prize for peace for his work on civil rights and social justice.

Photos shows a program signed by the civil rights leader honoring him for his work.

The exact program is on exhibit in the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection in Atlanta, which includes unpublished sermons and documents his civil rights campaign.