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May 14
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May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (135th in
leap years). There are 231 days remaining.
Events
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1264 -
Battle of Lewes:
Henry III of England is captured in
France making
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester Simon de Montfort the ''de facto'' ruler of
England.
*
1483 - Coronation of
Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
*
1509 -
Battle of Agnadello: In northern
Italy,
France French forces defeat the
Republic of Venice Venetians.
*
1607 -
Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as an
England English colony.
*
1608 -
Protestant Union founded in
Auhausen.
*
1643 - Four-year-old
Louis XIV of France Louix XIV becomes King of
France upon the death of his father,
Louis XIII of France Louis XIII.
*
1747 - A British fleet under Admiral
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson George Anson defeats the French at
first battle of Cape Finisterre (1747) first battle of Cape Finisterre.
*
1787 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new
United States Constitution Constitution for the
United States.
*
1796 -
Edward Jenner administers the first
smallpox vaccination.
*
1804 - The
Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from
Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the
Missouri River.
*
1811 -
Paraguay gains independence from
Spain.
*
1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-
gram chondrite-type
meteorite strikes the earth near
Barcelona, Spain.
*
1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Jackson (MS).
*
1870 - The first game of
rugby football rugby in
New Zealand is played in
Nelson, New Zealand Nelson between
Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
*
1889 - The children's charity the
NSPCC is launched in
London.
*
1900 - The
1900 Summer Olympics open in
Paris.
*
1913 -
New York Governor
William Sulzer approves the charter for the
Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from
John D. Rockefeller.
*
1927 -
Cap Arcona is launched at the
Blohm & Voss Blohm + Voss shipyard in
Hamburg.
*
1929 -
Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th
first-class cricket first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
*
1931 -
Ã…dalen shootings, five people are killed in
Ã…dalen,
Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed
trade union manifestation.
*
1935 - The
Philippines Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
*1935 -
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club Northamptonshire gains (over
Somerset County Cricket Club Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the
County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until ''
May 29 29 May,
1939''.
*
1939 -
Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed
mother in medical history at the age of five.
*
1940 -
World War II:
Rotterdam is bombed by the
Germany German Luftwaffe.
*1940 - World War II: The
Netherlands surrender to
Germany.
*
1948 -
Israel declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
*1948 - The
murder of a three-year-old girl in
Blackburn, northern
England, leads to the
fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.
*
1955 -
Cold War: Eight
communism communist bloc countries, including the
Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence
treaty called the
Warsaw Pact.
*
1961 -
American civil rights movement:
Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near
Anniston, Alabama, and the
civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
*
1967 -
Mickey Mantle becomes the sixth member of the
500 home run club with a
Home run home run at
Yankee Stadium in
The Bronx Bronx, New York.
*
1970 - The
Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
*
1973 - ''
Skylab'', the
United States' first
space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the
Saturn V rocket.
*
1978 - First round of the
Presidential Election in Upper Volta 1978 presidential elections in
Upper Volta.
*
1981 - Concert in
Caracas of
El Trabuco Venezolano and
Irakere (First day).
*
1985 - Popular Hong Kong actress
Barbara Yung Mei-ling was found unconscious from gas inhalation in her apartment at
Kowloon Tong,
Hong Kong. She was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.
*
1995 -
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th
Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh
reincarnation of the
Panchen Lama.
*
1998 - After nine years on the air, the
series finale of the
television Situation comedy sitcom ''
Seinfeld'' airs on
National Broadcasting Corporation NBC.
*
2002 - Ten members of the
Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin-based
Network Against Prohibition invade the
Legislative Assembly of the
Northern Territory of
Australia.
*
2004 - The marriage of
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and
HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark Mary Donaldson takes place in
Copenhagen.
*
2005 -
Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating
Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to
canonization into
sainthood
*
2006 - The final episode of the
The West Wing (TV series) West Wing will be broadcast in the United States.
Births
*
1265 -
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d.
1321)
*
1316 -
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
1378)
*
1553 -
Margaret of Valois, wife of
Henry IV of France (d.
1615)
*
1666 -
Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d.
1732)
*
1699 -
Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d.
1786)
*
1701 -
William Emerson, English mathematician (d.
1782)
*
1703 -
David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (d.
1785)
*
1710 - King
Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d.
1771)
*
1727 -
Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d.
1788)
*
1771 -
Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d.
1858)
*
1832 -
Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d.
1903)
*
1867 -
Kurt Eisner, German politician and publicist (d.
1919)
*
1885 -
Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d.
1973)
*
1897 -
Sidney Bechet, American musician (d.
1959)
*
1899 -
Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d.
1993)
*
1904 -
Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d.
1973)
*
1907 -
Ayub Khan,
President of Pakistan (d.
1974)
*
1917 -
Lou Harrison, American composer (d.
2003)
*
1921 -
Richard Deacon (actor) Richard Deacon, American actor (d.
1984)
*
1922 -
Franjo Tudjman Franjo Tuđman,
President of Croatia (d.
1999)
*
1926 -
Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d.
1984)
*
1929 -
Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player
*
1931 -
Alvin Lucier, American composer
*
1934 -
Sian Phillips Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
*
1936 -
Bobby Darin, American singer (d.
1973)
*
1942 -
Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator
*
1943 -
Ólafur Ragnar GrÃmsson,
President of Iceland
*
1944 -
George Lucas, American film director and producer
*
1946 -
Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
*
1948 -
Bob Woolmer, Indian-born cricket coach
*
1952 -
David Byrne (musician) David Byrne, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (
Talking Heads)
*1952 -
Robert Zemeckis, American film director
*
1953 -
Norodom Sihamoni,
King of Cambodia
*1953 -
Tom Cochrane, Canadian singer, songwriter, and guitarist (
Red Rider)
*
1957 -
Leon White, professional wrestler
*
1959 -
Patrick Bruel, French singer
*1959 -
Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1960 -
Steve Williams (wrestler) Steve Williams, American professional wrestler
*
1961 -
Tim Roth, English actor
*
1962 -
Ian Astbury, English singer (
The Cult)
*
1965 -
Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
*
1966 -
Raphael Saadiq, American music artist
*
1967 -
Tony Siragusa, American football player
*
1969 -
Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
*
1971 -
Sofia Coppola, American film writer and director
*
1976 -
Martine McCutcheon, British actress
*
1977 -
Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
*
1981 -
Sarbel, Greek-born singer
*
1983 -
Amber Tamblyn, American actress
*
1985 -
Ricky Shepherd, Australian actor
*
1989 -
Derek Welski, Founder of the Princeton Area Veterans Project
Deaths
*
964 -
Pope John XII
*
1470 - King
Charles VIII of Sweden (b.
1409
*
1608 -
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b.
1543)
*
1610 - King
Henry IV of France (assassinated) (b.
1553)
*
1643 - King
Louis XIII of France (b.
1601)
*
1649 -
Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b.
1600)
*
1669 -
Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b.
1601)
*
1688 -
Antoine Furetière, French writer (b.
1619)
*
1754 -
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b.
1692)
*
1761 -
Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b.
1710)
*
1818 -
Matthew Gregory Lewis Matthew Lewis, English novelist (b.
1775)
*
1847 -
Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b.
1805)
*
1860 -
Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b.
1801)
*
1887 -
Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b.
1808)
*
1889 -
Volney E. Howard, American politician (b.
1809)
*
1906 -
Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b.
1829)
*
1912 - King
Frederick VIII of Denmark (b.
1843)
*1912 -
August Strindberg, Swedish author (b.
1849)
*
1919 -
Henry John Heinz, founder of the
H. J. Heinz Company (b.
1844)
*
1923 -
Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b.
1828)
*
1925 -
H. Rider Haggard, English author (b.
1856)
*
1931 -
David Belasco, American theatrical producer and playwright (b.
1853)
*
1936 -
Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b.
1861)
*
1940 -
Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist and feminist (b.
1869)
*
1943 -
Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1854)
*
1945 -
Heber J. Grant, president of
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1856)
*
1954 -
Heinz Guderian, German General (b.
1888)
*
1957 -
Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b.
1884)
*
1959 -
Sidney Bechet, American musician (b.
1897)
*
1968 -
Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b.
1882)
*
1969 -
Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b.
1888)
*
1973 -
Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b.
1905)
*
1976 -
Keith Relf, British singer and musician (
The Yardbirds) (b.
1943)
*
1978 -
Robert Menzies, twelfth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1894)
*
1983 -
Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b.
1900)
*
1987 -
Rita Hayworth, American actress (b.
1918)
*
1988 -
Willem Drees,
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b.
1886)
*
1991 -
Jiang Qing, Madame Mao (b.
1914)
*
1992 -
Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b.
1899)
*
1995 -
Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1916)
*
1997 -
Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b.
1934)
*
1998 -
Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b.
1915)
*
2000 -
Obuchi Keizo,
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1937)
*
2003 -
Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b.
1940)
*2003 - Dame
Wendy Hiller, British actress (b.
1912)
*2003 -
Robert Stack, American actor (b.
1919)
Holidays and observances
*
Paraguay -
Flag Day
*
Israel -
Yom Ha'atzma'ut, or Israeli Independence Day. The observed date of this
National holiday national holiday is determined by the
Jewish Calendar.
*
World Fair Trade Day (
2005)
External links
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BBC: On This Day
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''The New York Times'': On This Day
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On This Day in Canada
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May 13 -
May 15 -
April 14 -
June 14 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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