May
14
Independence
Day
Israel : 14 May 1948
Events
May 14
1264 – Battle
of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign
the Mise of Lewes, 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 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII
to the throne.
1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the
death of his father, Louis XIII.
1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under
Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle
of Cape Finisterre.
1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional
Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States;
George Washington presides.
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois
and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri
River.
1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the
Spanish governor
1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former
Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way
of Nikkō.
1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson
between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives
in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
1889 – The children's charity National Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
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.
1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during
a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in
history to have reached that plateau.
1931 – Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden,
as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1935 – The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
1939 – Lina Medina becomes the 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 Battle of the Netherlands ends with
the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber,
has its first flight.
1943 – A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast
of Queensland.
1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional
government is established. Immediately after the declaration,
Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering
the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first
time since preservation, making it the first railway in the
world to be operated by volunteers.
1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the
Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw
Pact.
1961 – 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.
1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.
1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
1988 – Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver traveling the
wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United
States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group.
27 die the in the crash and ensuing fire.
2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the
impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashed near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom,
Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Engelmund of Velsen
Matthias the Apostle (Roman Catholic Church)
Michael Garicoïts
Mo Chutu of Lismore (Roman Catholic Church)
Victor and Corona
May 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which the first day of Sanja Matsuri can fall,
while May 20 is the latest; celebrated on the third weekend
of May. (Sensō-ji, Tokyo)
Hastings Banda's Birthday (Malawi)
National Unification Day (Liberia)
The first day of Izumo-taisha Shrine Grand Festival. (Izumo-taisha)
One of the two dates on which World Naked Gardening Day may
be celebrated; the other is May 3
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