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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<
User:Pern
NOTE: Today: May 14
On this day...
May 14
:
Feast day
of
Saint Matthias
(
Catholicism
);
Independence Day
in Israel (2024)
Monument to the Battle of Lewes
1264
–
Second Barons' War
: King
Henry III
was defeated at the
Battle of Lewes
(monument pictured)
and forced to sign the
Mise of Lewes
, making
Simon de Montfort
the
de facto
ruler of England.
1857
–
Mindon Min
was
crowned as King of Burma
.
1863
–
American Civil War
:
Union
troops
captured Jackson
, the capital of
Mississippi
.
1931
– Five people were killed in
Ådalen
, Sweden, as
soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration
.
1948
–
David Ben-Gurion
publicly read the
Israeli Declaration of Independence
at
Independence Hall
in
Tel Aviv
.
Fanny Imlay
(
b.
1794)
Mary Seacole
(
d.
1881)
Miranda Cosgrove
(
b.
1993)
Taruni Sachdev
(
b.
1998;
d.
2012)
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