May
14
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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