May 14 Events |
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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, 2004 (May 14 2004) | Event | The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun. | |
| May 14th, 2004 (May 14 2004) | Event | The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen. | |
| May 14th, 2002 (May 14 2002) | Event | Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia. | |
| 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, 1988 (May 14 1988) | Event | Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27. | |
| May 14th, 1978 (May 14 1978) | Event | First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. | |
| May 14th, 1973 (May 14 1973) | Event | Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States first space station, is launchedied in It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket. | |
| May 14th, 1970 (May 14 1970) | Event | The Red Army Faction is established in Germany. | |
| May 14th, 1970 (May 14 1970) | Event | Mississippi state police kill two black students at Jackson State University. | |
| May 14th, 1961 (May 14 1961) | Event | American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob. | |
| May 14th, 1961 (May 14 1961) | Event | Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix. | |
| 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, 1948 (May 14 1948) | Event | Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is establishedied in Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. | |
| May 14th, 1943 (May 14 1943) | Event | Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine. | |
| May 14th, 1940 (May 14 1940) | Event | World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe. | |
| May 14th, 1940 (May 14 1940) | Event | World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany. | |
| May 14th, 1939 (May 14 1939) | Event | Lina Medina becomes the world s youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five. | |
| 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, 1931 (May 14 1931) | Event | Adalen shootings: five people are killed in Adalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration. | |
| May 14th, 1929 (May 14 1929) | Event | Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton. | |
| May 14th, 1927 (May 14 1927) | Event | Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. | |
| May 14th, 1927 (May 14 1927) | Event | The University of Chicago s local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity. | |
| May 14th, 1925 (May 14 1925) | Event | Virginia Woolf s novel Mrs Dalloway is published. | Virginia Woolf Quotes |
| May 14th, 1913 (May 14 1913) | Event | New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller. | John D. Rockefeller Quotes |
| May 14th, 1889 (May 14 1889) | Event | The children s charity the NSPCC is launched in London. | |
| May 14th, 1879 (May 14 1879) | Event | The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas. | |
| May 14th, 1870 (May 14 1870) | Event | The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club. | |
| May 14th, 1868 (May 14 1868) | Event | Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikko. | |
| May 14th, 1863 (May 14 1863) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place. | |
| May 14th, 1861 (May 14 1861) | Event | The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain. | |
| May 14th, 1811 (May 14 1811) | Event | Paraguay gains independence from Spain. | |
| May 14th, 1804 (May 14 1804) | Event | The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River. | |
| May 14th, 1796 (May 14 1796) | Event | Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. | |
| May 14th, 1747 (May 14 1747) | Event | A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre. | |
| May 14th, 1643 (May 14 1643) | Event | Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. | |
| May 14th, 1610 (May 14 1610) | Event | Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne. | |
| May 14th, 1608 (May 14 1608) | Event | The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen. | |
| May 14th, 1607 (May 14 1607) | Event | Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony. | |
| May 14th, 1509 (May 14 1509) | Event | Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians. | |
| May 14th, 1483 (May 14 1483) | Event | Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l Affable"). | |
| May 14th, 1264 (May 14 1264) | Event | Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England. | |
