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May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 231 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured after the battle 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 – A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
• 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 gains independence from Spain.
• 1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
• 1861 – The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
• 1868 – Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former 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 labourers arrives in Fiji aboard the .
• 1889 – The children's charity the NSPCC 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.
• 1927 – Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
• 1927 – The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
• 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 demonstration.
• 1935 – The Philippines ratifies 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 surrenders to Germany.
• 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.
• 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.

  

  Launch of the Saturn INT-21, carrying the Skylab space station.

• 1973 – Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
• 1986 – Pride of Baltimore is lost at sea.
• 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. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
• 2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
• 2005 – The former USS America, 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.

Births

• 1316 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
• 1553 – Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
• 1666 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
• 1679 – Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)
• 1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
• 1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
• 1710 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
• 1725 – Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
• 1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)
• 1737 – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)
• 1752 – Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)
• 1752 – Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
• 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
• 1781 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
• 1814 – Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
• 1817 – Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
• 1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
• 1867 – Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
• 1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)
• 1878 – James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
• 1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
• 1881 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
• 1881 – Ed Walsh, American baseball player (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
• 1893 – Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
• 1897 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
• 1897 – Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
• 1899 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
• 1899 – Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
• 1900 – Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
• 1900 – Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
• 1900 – Walter Rehberg, Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
• 1901 – Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)
• 1903 – Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
• 1904 – Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)
• 1904 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
• 1905 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
• 1905 – Herbert Morrison, American radio announcer (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
• 1907 – Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
• 1916 – Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
• 1916 – Marco Zanuso, Italian architect (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
• 1919 – Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
• 1919 – John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
• 1921 – Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician (d. 1999)
• 1923 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
• 1923 – Mrinal Sen, Indian film director
• 1925 – Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano
• 1925 – Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
• 1926 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
• 1927 – Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
• 1928 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor
• 1929 – Henry McGee, straight man to Benny Hill (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer
• 1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
• 1932 – Robert Bechtle, American painter
• 1933 – Frank Harte, Irish singer and song collector
• 1933 – Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
• 1934 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
• 1935 – Rudi Šeligo, Slovenian writer and politician (d. 2004)
• 1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
• 1936 – Charlie Gracie, American singer
• 1936 – Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
• 1940 – Troy Shondell, American singer
• 1940 – 'H'. Jones, British Soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
• 1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
• 1942 – Byron Dorgan, American politician
• 1942 – Prentis Hancock, British actor
• 1942 – Tony Pérez, Cuban baseball player
• 1942 – Rüdiger Vogler, German actor
• 1943 – Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream)
• 1943 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
• 1943 – Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)
• 1943 – Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure
• 1944 – George Lucas, American film director
• 1945 – Francesca Annis, British actress
• 1945 – George Nicholls, British rugby league footballer
• 1945 – Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa
• 1947 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Bob Woolmer, English cricket coach (d. 2007)
• 1949 – Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
• 1950 – Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
• 1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-born American musician (Talking Heads)
• 1952 – Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler (d. 1987)
• 1952 – Donald R. McMonagle, American astronaut
• 1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American film director
• 1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)
• 1953 – Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
• 1954 – Jens Sparschuh, German writer
• 1955 – Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player
• 1955 – Peter Kirsten, former South African cricketer
• 1957 – Leon White, American professional wrestler
• 1958 – Christine Brennan, American sports columnist
• 1959 – Patrick Bruel, French singer
• 1959 – Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)
• 1959 – Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
• 1960 – Steve Williams, American wrestler
• 1960 – Ronan Tynan, Irish Singer
• 1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
• 1961 – Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1961 – Tim Roth, English actor
• 1961 – Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1962 – Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult)
• 1962 – C. C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
• 1963 – Pat Borders, American baseball player
• 1964 – James M. Kelly, American astronaut
• 1964 – Eric Peterson, American musician (Testament)
• 1964 – Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster
• 1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
• 1966 – Marianne Denicourt, French actress
• 1966 – Mike Inez, American bassist
• 1966 – Fabrice Morvan, French music artist (Milli Vanilli)
• 1966 – Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
• 1967 – Tony Siragusa, American football player
• 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
• 1969 – Danny Wood, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
• 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director
• 1971 – Nasha Aziz, Malaysian actress & model
• 1972 – Gabriel Mann, American actor
• 1972 – Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician
• 1973 – Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
• 1973 – Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director
• 1973 – Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
• 1973 – Julian White, English rugby union footballer
• 1973 – Shanice, American singer
• 1974 – Jennifer Allan, American model
• 1974 – Krister Axel, American poet and songwriter
• 1975 – Carlos Spencer, New Zealand rugby player
• 1975 – Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer
• 1976 – Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)
• 1976 – Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
• 1976 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress
• 1977 – Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality
• 1977 – Roy Halladay, American baseball player
• 1977 – Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
• 1978 – Brent Harvey, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Eddie House, American basketball player
• 1978 – André Macanga, Angolan footballer
• 1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 – Clinton Morrison, English-born Irish footballer
• 1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1980 – Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
• 1980 – Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete
• 1980 – Júlia Sebestyén, Hungarian figure skater
• 1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union footballer
• 1981 – Sarbel, Greek-born singer
• 1982 – BeardyMan, English beatboxer
• 1982 – Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
• 1983 – Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)
• 1983 – Frank Gore, American football player
• 1983 – Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player
• 1983 – Amber Tamblyn, American actress
• 1983 – Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
• 1984 – Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer
• 1984 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
• 1984 – Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
• 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur
• 1984 – Olly Murs, English singer
• 1985 – Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
• 1985 – Simona Peycheva, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
• 1986 – Andrea Bovo, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Camila Sodi, Mexican actress
• 1987 – Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
• 1987 – François Steyn, South African rugby union footballer
• 1990 – Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
• 1990 – Colin MacKay, Awesome Guy
• 1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 964 – Pope John XII
• 1470 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
• 1574 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
• 1608 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
• 1610 – Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
• 1643 – Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
• 1649 – Friedrich Spanheim, Swiss 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)
• 1761 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
• 1818 – Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
• 1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
• 1860 – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
• 1873 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
• 1878 – Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
• 1887 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
• 1889 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
• 1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
• 1906 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
• 1912 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
• 1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)
• 1918 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
• 1919 – Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
• 1923 – Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
• 1925 – H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
• 1931 – David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
• 1931 – Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
• 1934 – Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
• 1936 – Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)
• 1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1945 – Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
• 1954 – Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
• 1956 – Joan Malleson, English physician (b. 1889)
• 1957 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
• 1959 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
• 1959 – Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, mother of empress Zita of Austria (b. 1862)
• 1962 – Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
• 1968 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1969 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
• 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 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1983 – Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
• 1983 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
• 1984 – Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
• 1987 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1988 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
• 1991 – Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
• 1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
• 1993 – Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
• 1993 – William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
• 2000 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
• 2006 – Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• Liberia: National Unification Day
• Malawi: Hastings Banda's Birthday
• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
  • St. Matthias (Apostle)
  • St. Michael Garicoits
  • St. Boniface of Tarsus
  • St. Victor and Corona
  • St. Vincent of Lerins
  • St. Carthach the Younger
  • St. Engelmund

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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