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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
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 Expion 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.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 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 .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 NBC .2002 - Ten members of the Darwin ased 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 .2004 - Piers Morgan is fired as or of the Daily Mirror 2004 - Insurgents or terrorists in Iraq detonate a 155 mm shell containing several liters of binary precursors for sarin . The shell was designed to mix the chemicals as it spun during flight and the explosion failed to mix them properly. Although it only resulted in a small release of sarin, two U.S. soldiers are treated for exposure after displaying the early symptoms .2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood 2005 - Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York City . They celebrate the grand opening with a block party in Rockefeller Plaza.
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 )1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit , Dutch scientist (d. 1736 )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 )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 )1929 - Gump Worsley , Canadian hockey player1931 - Alvin Lucier , American composer1934 - Siân Phillips , Welsh actress1936 - Bobby Darin , American singer (d. 1973 )1942 - Byron Dorgan , U.S. Senator1942 - Tony Perez , baseball player1943 - Jack Bruce , singer, songwriter and bassist (Cream , Manfred Mann )1943 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson , President of Iceland
1944 - George Lucas , American film director and producer1946 - Eric Peterson , Canadian actor1948 - Bob Woolmer , Indian-born cricket coach1952 - 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 singer1960 - Steve Williams , American professional wrestler1961 - Tim Roth , English actor1962 - Ian Astbury , English singer (The Cult )1965 - Eoin Colfer , Irish writer1966 - Raphael Saadiq , American music artist1967 - Tony Siragusa , American football player1969 - Cate Blanchett , Australian actress1971 - Sofia Coppola , American film writer and director1977 - Ada Nicodemou , Australian actress1978 - Henry Garza, American songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist (Los Lonely Boys )1977 - Roy Halladay , baseball player
1981 - Sarbel , Greek-Arab singer1982 - David Kahn, all-around badass1983 - Amber Tamblyn , American actress1987 - Erik Fenton, English Guitarist (Nitro )
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 )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 )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 )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 )
Holidays and observances
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