Historical Events on May 14

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• 649 Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1027 Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks
• 1264 Battle of Lewes, 2nd Barons' War: Simon de Montfort the younger, Earl of Leicester, defeats English King Henry III

• 1576 Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
• 1607 English colonists establish the 1st permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown. Unknown to them they have landed amidst the worst drought in 800 years.
• 1608 The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen

• 1638 Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquers Batticaloa, Ceylon

• 1664 Turkish Grand Vizier Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
• 1702 England & Netherlands declare war on France & Spain

• 1747 A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
• 1767 British government disbands Americans import duty on tea

• 1800 Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth" premieres in Weimar

• 1811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day)

• 1842 Illustrated London News; the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, begins publication
• 1845 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens

• 1857 Mindon is crowned as King of Burma at Mandalay Palace, Burma
• 1861 The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain
• 1862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
• 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi takes place
• 1868 Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō
• 1874 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats Uni of McGill (Montreal) 3-0
• 1878 Vaseline is granted a patent (U.S. Patent 127,568)
• 1879 The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas
• 1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
• 1889 The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is launched in London, England, led by Benjamin Waugh

• 1894 Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
• 1896 Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F /-23°C at Climax, Colorado)

• 1897 Oldest continuously operating movie theater in the world, the State Theatre first opens in Washington, Iowa (Guinness World Records)

• 1906 Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising
• 1907 Sweden adopts universal suffrage for elections to its lower house and proportional representation for both houses
• 1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
• 1910 Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
• 1913 Frans Hals museum opens in Haarlem, Netherlands

• 1914 Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
• 1918 Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington, D.C.
• 1919 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta
• 1920 Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season
• 1920 Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
• 1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death in Ohio

• 1927 "Ain't She Sweet?" by Ben Bernie hits #1 on the singles chart
• 1927 German ocean liner SS 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
• 1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
• 1930 US Congress designates Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico a National Park [1]
• 1931 Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration
• 1932 "We Want Beer!" parade in NY
• 1935 LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
• 1935 Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement

• 1938 England soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
• 1939 Lina Medina of Peru becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five
• 1940 Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England

• 1940 British Local Defence Volunteers forms, an armed citizen militia designed to support the British Army during the Second World War. It is later renamed the Home Guard.
• 1940 German breakthrough at Sedan
• 1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
• 1940 Nazis bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany
• 1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
• 1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms

• 1943 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sinks off the coast of Queensland after being struck by torpedo fired by Japanese submarine; 268 of 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard die
• 1944 91 German bombers harass Bristol
• 1944 British troops occupy Kohima

• 1945 Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise

• 1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered

• 1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
• 1948 Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
• 1948 US grants Israel de facto recognition
• 1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll
• 1948 WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting

• 1950 Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
• 1951 "The Ernie Kovacs Show", a television variety program debuts on NBC-TV
• 1954 Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
• 1955 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
• 1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
• 1960 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
• 1960 Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis" premieres in Potsdam, NY
• 1961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama

• 1962 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan elected second President of India
• 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
• 1963 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
• 1964 17th Cannes Film Festival: "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" directed by Jacques Demy wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
• 1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
• 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1966 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
• 1966 A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95

• 1968 Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp

• 1969 Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
• 1969 Last Chevrolet Corvair built

• 1970 Militant leftist Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader freed from prison after serving 2 years in West Berlin
• 1970 NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
• 1972 24th Emmy Awards: "All in the Family", Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton win
• 1972 A 13-year old Catholic girl is shot dead by Loyalist paramilitaries in Ballymurphy, Belfast

• 1973 French film "Day for Night" written and directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Léaud premieres at Cannes (Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film)
• 1973 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
• 1973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
• 1973 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
• 1974 Underground America Day is 1st observed to honor the 6,000 Americans that make their homes in the Earth
• 1975 Cult feminist film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" written and directed by Chantal Ackerman and starring Delphine Seyrig premieres at Cannes
• 1975 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
• 1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
• 1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
• 1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
• 1977 English football international Bobby Moore retires
• 1977 KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0
• 1977 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
• 1977 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Jacques Lemaire scores twice as Montreal Canadiens edge Boston Bruins, 2-1 in OT for a 4 game sweep and back-to-back titles
• 1978 First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta
• 1979 "Kids Are All Right" rockumentary film featuring The Who premieres at the Cannes Film Festival

• 1980 Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
• 1980 Department of Health & Human Services begins operation
• 1981 NASA launches space vehicle S-192
• 1982 Guinea adopts constitution
• 1983 "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5

• 1986 Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.

• 1987 "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
• 1987 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
• 1988 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
• 1988 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.
• 1989 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
• 1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square
• 1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs on NBC with a 36 million audience

• 1989 Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC

• 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,821.53
• 1991 42 die in a train collision in Japan
• 1991 Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA

• 1991 World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
• 1992 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll

• 1995 At 43 years, 162 days Manchester City goalkeeper John Burridge becomes the oldest player to appear in an EPL match, a 3-2 home defeat to Queens Park Rangers

• 2000 "Yi Yi" Taiwanese film by Edward Yang debuts at Cannes

• 2002 Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.
• 2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun
• 2005 Former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the US Navy, deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. Largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.

• 2010 The 51,700 seat Aviva Stadium is officially opened on the site of the famous old Lansdowne Road Stadium in Dublin by Irish Prime Minister, Brian Cowan
• 2012 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike
• 2012 Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye
• 2013 Brazil becomes the 15th country to legalize same-sex marriage

• 2018 Boulder City Council in Colorado votes to ban assault weapons
• 2018 Chinese mountain climber and double amputee Xia Boyu reaches the summit of Mt Everest
• 2018 Indian politician Shashi Tharoor is charged by police with driving his wife to commit suicide

• 2018 Successful memory transfer in snails achieved by scientists from University of California published in journal "eNeuro"
• 2018 US Supreme Court strikes down federal law banning sports gambling in most states
• 2019 Huge protests closes schools in Kashmir after the rape of a three-year-old girl
• 2019 San Francisco is the first city to vote to ban use of facial recognition
• 2019 Steve Bullock, US Governor of Montana announces his run for Presidential office
• 2019 Wikipedia confirms China has banned all versions of its site
• 2020 Former pandemic agency head Rick Bright testifies to a US House Committee "without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history"
• 2020 Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 300,000 with 4.4 million confirmed infections
• 2022 18-year-old gunman kills 10 people and wounds three at a Tops supermarket in east Buffalo, New York, in a racially motivating attack [1]
• 2022 Surrealist artist Man Ray's photograph "Le Violon d'Ingres" sells for $12.4 million, making it the most expensive ever sold at auction [1]
• 2022 US records one million COVID-19 deaths, with The White House ordering flags to fly at half mast through the weekend [1]

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