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| May 14th, 2005 (May 14 2005) | Event | Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood. | |
| May 14th, 2005 (May 14 2005) | Event | The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise. | |
| May 14th, 1995 (May 14 1995) | Event | Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama. | Tenzin Gyatso Quotes |
| May 14th, 1995 (May 14 1995) | Death | Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (born in 1916) | |
| May 14th, 1985 (May 14 1985) | Birth | Sally Martin, American actress | |
| May 14th, 1985 (May 14 1985) | Death | Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (born in 1959) | |
| May 14th, 1975 (May 14 1975) | Birth | Salim Iles, Algerian swimmer | |
| May 14th, 1975 (May 14 1975) | Birth | Nicki Sorensen, Danish road bicycle racer | |
| May 14th, 1965 (May 14 1965) | Birth | Eoin Colfer, Irish writer | |
| May 14th, 1955 (May 14 1955) | Event | Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact. | |
| May 14th, 1955 (May 14 1955) | Birth | Dennis Martinez, Nicaraguan baseball player | |
| May 14th, 1945 (May 14 1945) | Birth | Francesca Annis, British actress | |
| May 14th, 1945 (May 14 1945) | Birth | Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa | |
| May 14th, 1945 (May 14 1945) | Death | Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born in 1856) | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| May 14th, 1935 (May 14 1935) | Event | The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement. | |
| May 14th, 1935 (May 14 1935) | Event | Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939. | |
| May 14th, 1925 (May 14 1925) | Event | Virginia Woolf s novel Mrs Dalloway is published. | Virginia Woolf Quotes |
| May 14th, 1925 (May 14 1925) | Birth | Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano | |
| May 14th, 1925 (May 14 1925) | Birth | Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player | |
| May 14th, 1925 (May 14 1925) | Death | H. Rider Haggard, English author (born in 1856) | |
| May 14th, 1905 (May 14 1905) | Birth | Jean Danielou, French cardinal (died in 1974) | |
| May 14th, 1905 (May 14 1905) | Birth | Herbert Morrison, American radio announcer (died in 1989) | |
| May 14th, 1885 (May 14 1885) | Birth | Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (died in 1973) | |
| May 14th, 1725 (May 14 1725) | Birth | Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (died in 1802) | |
| May 14th, 1265 (May 14 1265) | Birth | Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (died in 1321) | |
