Notable Historical Events on May 14th
May 14th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
649 |
Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1027 |
Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France |
1264 |
Battle of Lewes, 2nd Barons' War: Simon de Montfort the younger, Earl of Leicester, defeats English King Henry III |
1483 |
Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable"). |
1509 |
Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy |
1576 |
Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten |
1607 |
1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va |
1608 |
The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen. |
1610 |
Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne. |
1638 |
Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon |
1643 |
Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4 |
1664 |
Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers |
1702 |
England & Netherlands declare war on France & Spain |
1702 |
Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw |
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 |
1787 |
Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution |
1796 |
English country doctor Edward Jenner administered the first inoculation against smallpox, using cowpox pus, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire |
1800 |
Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth" premieres in Weimar |
1804 |
Meriwether Lewis & William Clark's expedition commissioned by Thomas Jefferson sets out from St Louis for Pacific Coast |
1811 |
Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day) |
1832 |
Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" premieres |
1835 |
Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile |
1842 |
Illustrated London News; the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, begins publication |
1845 |
Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens |
1853 |
Gail Borden, land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor, patents his process for condensed milk |
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, MS 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 first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly) |
1879 |
The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas. |
1884 |
Anti-Monopoly party forms in US |
1885 |
11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37.25 |
1886 |
12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36.50 |
1888 |
14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.00 |
1889 |
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is launched in London. |
1890 |
16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45 |
1892 |
Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem |
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 |
Great Britain signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia |
1903 |
President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco |
1905 |
2nd official international soccer match, Netherlands beats Belgium 4-0 |
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 |
1913 |
Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings |
1914 |
Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0 |
1918 |
Sunday baseball is made legal in Washton, DC |
1919 |
45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53 |
1919 |
Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta |
1920 |
Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit |
1920 |
Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season |
1921 |
Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death |
1921 |
Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliamentary seats |
1925 |
Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published. |
1927 |
"Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the singles chart by Ben Bernie |
1927 |
53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06 |
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. |
1928 |
John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg |
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 Philippines ratifies independence agreement |
1935 |
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939. |
1938 |
64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8 |
1938 |
England soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3 |
1939 |
Lina Medina 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 |
Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof |
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 |
Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine. |
1944 |
91 German bombers harass Bristol |
1944 |
British troops occupy Kohima |
1944 |
Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler |
1945 |
Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise |
1945 |
US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered |
1945 |
Physician Joseph Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge or informed consent. Stevens lived another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human |
1946 |
Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love" premieres |
1948 |
Israel declares independence from under British administration |
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 Enwetak |
1948 |
WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
"Love Life" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 252 performances |
1949 |
75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56 |
1949 |
Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral |
1950 |
Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs |
1951 |
Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances |
1951 |
Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC |
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 & Romania |
1957 |
"New Girl in Town" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances |
1957 |
Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town" premieres in NYC |
1960 |
"At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs |
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 |
1961 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open |
1961 |
Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix |
1962 |
Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1963 |
Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations |
1964 |
Underground America Day is 1st observed |
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 |
1967 |
Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller |
1967 |
Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down |
1968 |
Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp |
1968 |
Czech government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubček |
1968 |
RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin |
1969 |
Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada |
1969 |
Last Chevrolet Corsair built |
1970 |
Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss) |
1970 |
Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court |
1970 |
NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing |
1970 |
RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin |
1970 |
The Red Army Faction is established in Germany. |
1972 |
24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton win |
1972 |
In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4 |
1972 |
14th Grammy Awards: It's Too Late, Carly Simon wins |
1972 |
A 13 year old Catholic girl is shot dead by Loyalist paramilitaries in Ballymurphy, Belfast |
1973 |
Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London |
1973 |
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV |
1973 |
Skylab launched, 1st Space Station |
1973 |
US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military |
1974 |
Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed |
1975 |
Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II |
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: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
1978 |
"Working" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 25 performances |
1978 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
1978 |
First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. |
1980 |
"Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances |
1980 |
Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation |
1980 |
Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II |
1980 |
Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3 |
1981 |
35th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2 |
1981 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-192 |
1982 |
Guinea adopts constitution |
1983 |
"She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5 |
1983 |
Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
1983 |
Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) |
1984 |
19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama |
1986 |
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's complete diary |
1986 |
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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 |
"Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances |
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 |
1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett) |
1989 |
Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
1989 |
Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square |
1989 |
Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs |
1989 |
Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC |
1990 |
46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos) |
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 |
1991 |
Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal |
1992 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll |
1994 |
Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617 |
1994 |
FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London |
1995 |
"My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances |
1995 |
41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins |
1995 |
Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th) |
1995 |
Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader |
1996 |
NY Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0 |
1997 |
Baseball's Exec Council suspends NY Yank owner George Steinbrenner |
1998 |
Last episode of seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds) |
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 |
Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood. |
2005 |
The former USS America (CV-66), 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. |
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 |
2016 |
Hezbollah blames insurgent shelling for death of top commander in Syria |
2016 |
US sees China boosting military presence after island-building spree |
2016 |
Canada's Trudeau tours Alberta oil town ravaged by wildfire |
2017 |
China pledges $124 bln for new Silk Road, says open to everyone |
2017 |
S.Korea's Moon says dialogue only possible when N.Korea changes attitude |
2017 |
US military confirms North Korea fired missile |
2017 |
N.Korean missile landed in Sea of Japan after flying 30 min -Japan's Suga |
2017 |
Cubs call up top prospect Ian Happ, who homers for first big league hit |
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