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- 1097 Siege of Nicaea began during the first Crusade - Turkey
- 1264 Baron's War fought in England
- 1264 Battle at Lewes: Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III
- 1264 Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1483 Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
- 1501 Lisbon Portugal, explorer Gaspar Corte Réal leaves on his second voyage to Newfoundland; never heard from again.
- 1509 Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
- 1509 Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
- 1576 Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
- 1607 First permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown VA
- 1607 Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1608 Protestant Union founded in Auhausen.
- 1610 Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
- 1633 Olivier Le Jeune d1654 baptized into the Roman Catholic faith; a slave left in Quebec by the Kirkes, he is the first recorded black in Canada.
- 1638 Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon
- 1643 Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- 1643 Louis XIV becomes King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII
- 1664 Turkish great Köprülü attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
- 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.
- 1747 In the Atlantic New France Governor Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière 1685-1752 captured by the British at sea and taken to England.
- 1760 French fleet arrives in the St. Lawrence from France, but retreats to the Bay of Chaleur when it learns of the fall of Quebec.
- 1767 British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
- 1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution
- 1796 Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
- 1796 First smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
- 1800 Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth" premieres in Weimar
- 1804 Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for the Pacific Coast
- 1804 Lewis and Clark begin their expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory
- 1804 The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase territory begins its ascent of the Missouri River May 14 seeking to determine whether the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean are linked by a river system
- 1811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day)
- 1832 Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" premieres
- 1845 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens
- 1853 Gail Borden patents her 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 the chronograph
- 1863 Battle of Jackson MS
- 1864 Battle of Reseca GA -Atlanta- (2nd day)
- 1868 Japanese Boshin War: End of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikk.
- 1870 The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
- 1874 Harvard beats University of McGill (Montréal) in football, 3-0
- 1878 Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
- 1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US
- 1889 The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
- 1892 Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem
- 1896 Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10ºF - Climax CO)
- 1897 Great-Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
- 1904 St Louis hosts the first Olympic Games to be held in the United States
- 1904 The first Olympics in the US are held (St Louis)
- 1905 2nd official international soccer match, Netherlands beats Belgium 4-0
- 1906 Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising
- 1908 The first passenger flight in an airplane
- 1910 Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
- 1913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
- 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.
- 1921 Florence Allen is first woman judge to sentence a man to death
- 1921 Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
- 1927 "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie
- 1927 Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
- 1927 University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
- 1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
- 1929 Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
- 1931 dalen shootings, five people are killed in dalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
- 1932 "We Want Beer!" parade in New York
- 1935 Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
- 1935 Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until 29 May, 1939.
- 1935 Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement
- 1935 The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
- 1938 English 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 Furstner departs to England
- 1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
- 1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
- 1940 World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 1940 World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany.
- 1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
- 1942 The Women's Auxilliary Army Corps (WACS) is established
- 1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded
- 1943 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sunk by a Japanese submarine off the south Queensland coast The ship was crewed by members of the Australian merchant navy and only 64 of the 333 on board survived
- 1943 Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
- 1944 91 German bombers harass Bristol
- 1944 General Rommel, Speidel & von Stülpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
- 1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
- 1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
- 1946 The House of Commons passes the Canadian Citizenship Act; first nationality statute in Canada to define its people as Canadians
- 1948 Israel declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel was attacked by the neighboring Arab states.
- 1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's first broadcast
- 1948 Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
- 1948 PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel
- 1948 Visitor posting - Fig tree blossomed after the cursing of Jesus Christ, marking this generation shall see the 2nd coming of Christ Jesus (the Rapture)
- 1948 US grants Israel de facto recognition
- 1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
- 1951 Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC
- 1954 Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
- 1955 A causeway is completed across the Strait of Canso between Cape Porcupine and Balache Point, Nova Scotia. This involved a 14 mile main line diversion for the rerouting of railway traffic linking directly Cape Breton Island with the mainland. Previous movements were by car ferry across the Strait of Canso.
- 1955 Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- 1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
- 1956 2 RAR attacks communist terrorists near Sungei Siput, Malaya
- 1960 USSR launch first (unmanned) space capsule
- 1961 Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
- 1961 Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix.
- 1962 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
- 1963 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
- 1964 Underground America Day is first observed
- 1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
- 1968 Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
- 1968 Czechoslovakian Government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek
- 1968 Red Army Faction -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 University, Mississippi)
- 1970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to the Supreme Court
- 1970 In the Eastern Caucasus two quakes measuring 5.5 and 6.5 occurred occurred a few miles west of Machackala, a city of about 165,000 population and located on the Caspian Sea
- 1970 Mississippi state police kill two black students at Jackson State University.
- 1970 NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
- 1970 Red Aarmy Faction -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
- 1972 Visitor posting - May 14, 1972 Anoof was born in Palakkad Sarada Nursing Home - India
- 1973 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
- 1973 Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.
- 1973 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV
- 1973 Skylab launched, the first Space Station
- 1973 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
- 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
- 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 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
- 1978 First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.
- 1980 Department of Health & Human Services begins operation
- 1980 Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II
- 1981 The Bank of Canada raises lending rate to further record high of 18.98%.
- 1982 Braniff International Airways files for bankruptcy after 52 years in business, a victim of over-expansion and a weak economy. It is the first major U.S. airline to fold.
- 1982 Visitor posting - The brith of Jolene - USA
- 1982 British troops return in force to the Falklands, fierce fighting brings heavy casualties to both sides in the next few weeks
- 1982 Guinea adopts constitution
- 1984 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama wins
- 1985 Northwest of Madagascar a6.4 quake was felt at Mtwara and Newala, Tanzania and in the Mocimbao da Praia area, Mozambique. Believed to be the largest instrumentally located hypocenter in this area
- 1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
- 1987 "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
- 1987 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
- 1988 Carrollton bus disaster: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, USA hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
- 1988 Number one hit on UK music charts - Fairground Attraction - Perfect
- 1989 "Moonlighting", TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC
- 1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square continue
- 1989 Visitor posting - Emmanuel Rwahamira was born - Rwanda
- 1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
- 1989 Matt Gilliam was born!
- 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,821.53
- 1991 42 die in a train collision is Japan
- 1991 Angry truckers blockade Parliament Hill; say they can't compete due to higher Canadian taxes than US
- 1991 Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
- 1991 World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
- 1992 Visitor posting - Valeria was born
- 1992 Visitor posting - On this day Collin Mcilvried was born!!! - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Jesse Moynan born - Canada
- 1992 Visitor posting - Thursday May 14 1992 at 5:05 p.m in Aurora, Illinois Cynthia Ashley Aguirre was born
- 1994 FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London
- 1994 Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46)
- 1994 Visitor posting - Cody Webber was born - USA
- 1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader
- 1995 Visitor posting - Zac Shadomy was born
- 1998 Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2 million for 30 seconds)
- 1998 Visitor posting - Lauren Nicole Ellis was born on - USA [email protected]
- 1998 Microsoft agrees to delay shipping Windows 98 for several days while it negotiates with federal government and 20 states in attempt to forestall antitrust lawsuits.
- 2000 Visitor posting - A Precious Baby Boy Named Charles E Pike the 2nd born - USA
- 2000 Visitor posting - A PRECIOUS BABYBOY NAMED DONTREL WAS BORN ON MAY 14, 2000 ON MOTHER\'S DAY - USA
- 2002 Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.
- 2003 Visitor posting - Sophia Mae was born, Cambridge Ohio - USA
- 2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
- 2004 The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen.
- 2005 Ex-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.
- 2005 Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
- 2008 Visitor posting - My Cousin Jaime B. Arroyos Was Killed - USA
- 2008 Visitor posting - a handsome baby boy named Antron Collins Jr. was born
- 2008 Visitor posting - Beautiful baby girl Elaina Renee Chacon was born - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Kasi and Brandon began a beautiful life together - USA
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