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.
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Events
- 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making 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, French forces defeat the Venetians.
- 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as an English colony.
- 1608 - Protestant Union founded in Auhausen.
- 1643 - Four year-old Louix XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- 1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
- 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new 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 in New Zealand is played in 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 shipyard in Hamburg.
- 1929 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
- 1931 - Ådalen shootings, five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union manifestation.
- 1935 - The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
- 1935 - Northamptonshire gains (over 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 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 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 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 at Yankee Stadium in 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 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 sitcom Seinfeld airs on NBC.
- 2002 - Ten members of the 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 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
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Births
- 1265 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
- 1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
- 1553 - Margaret of Valois, queen 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 (d. 1984)
- 1922 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
- 1926 - Eric Morecambe famous British comedian (d. 1984)
- 1929 - Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player
- 1931 - Alvin Lucier, American composer
- 1934 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
- 1936 - Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1942 - Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator
- 1943 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
- 1944 - George Lucas, American film director and producer
- 1946 - Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
- 1947 - Thomas Wisneski, American film director
- 1947 - Ryan Hafner, Lithuanian gymnast (d. 2001)
- 1948 - Bob Woolmer, Indian-born cricket coach
- 1952 - 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)
- 1959 - Patrick Bruel, French singer
- 1960 - 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
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Deaths
- 964 - Pope John XII
- 1470 - King Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409
- 1608 - Charles II, 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 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 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)
- 1980 - 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 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)
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Holidays and observances
- Paraguay - Flag Day
- Israel - Yom Ha'atzma'ut, or Israeli Independence Day. The observed date of this national holiday is determined by the Jewish Calendar.
- Mother's Day (certain countries) - 2000, 2006
- World Fair Trade Day (2005)
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