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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