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Events

1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester the de facto ruler of England.
1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
1509 - Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, France forces defeat the Republic of Venice.
1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an England colony.
1608 - Protestant Union founded in Auhausen.
1610 - Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1643 - Four-year-old Louis XIV of France becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII of France.
1747 - A United Kingdom fleet under Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson defeats the France at first battle of Cape Finisterre (1747).
1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new United States Constitution for the United States.
1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Jackson (MS).
1868 - Japanese Boshin War: End of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
1870 - The first game of rugby football in New Zealand is played in Nelson, New Zealand between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1889 - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
1889 - Club Nacional de Futbol, a football (soccer) club in Uruguay, is founded.
1900 - The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris.
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.
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.
1929 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class cricket wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
1931 - Ådalen shootings, five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1935 - The Philippines ratify an independence agreement.
1935 - Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset County Cricket Club 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 May 29, 1939.
1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 - World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the Germany Luftwaffe.
1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany.
1943 - Sinking of the AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
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.
1955 - Cold War: Eight communism bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1961 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
1961 - Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco grand prix.
1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
1970 - Mississippi state police Jackson State killings at Jackson State University.
1973 - Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.

, carrying the Skylab space station.

1977 - In Milan, Italy, during a demonstration of the far-left, a hooded extremist shoots at police, killing a policeman, Antonino Custrà. The scene is photographed and the picture of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street will appear in many magazines around the world.
1978 - First round of the Presidential Election in Upper Volta 1978 in Upper Volta.
1986 - Formula One Italian driver Elio De Angelis has a terrible crash with his Brabham at the Paul Ricard circuit in France during a test session. He will die the next day at the Marseille hospital.
1988 - Carrollton bus disaster: A drunk driving 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.
1995 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
2002 - Ten members of the Darwin, Northern Territory-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.
2004 - The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark takes place in Copenhagen.
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
2005 - Ex-USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is SINKEX 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.

Births

1265 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
1553 - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1615)
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1679 - Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)
1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer (d. 1736)
1699 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1701 - William Emerson (mathematician), English mathematician (d. 1782)
1710 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
1725 - Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
1727 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)
1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)
1752 - Timothy Dwight IV, American theologian (d. 1817)
1752 - Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
1771 - Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
1781 - Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
1814 - Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
1817 - Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
1832 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
1867 - Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
1872 - Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)
1878 - J.L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
1880 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
1881 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
1881 - Ed Walsh, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1885 - Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)
1890 - Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
1897 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
1899 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
1899 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1900 - Hal Borland, Writer (d. 1978)
1900 - Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
1900 - Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
1901 - Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)
1903 - Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
1904 - Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)
1904 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
1905 - Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
1905 - Herbert Morrison (announcer), American radio reporter (d. 1989)
1907 - Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat, member of the European Commission (d. 2005)
1907 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
1907 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
1916 - Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
1916 - Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
1916 - Marco Zanuso, Italian architect
1917 - Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
1919 - Solange Chaput-Rolland, French Canadian journalist, author and politician (d. 2001)
1919 - John Hope (meteorologist), American meteorologist (d. 2002)
1921 - Richard Deacon (actor), American actor (d. 1984)
1921 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
1922 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
1923 - Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
1923 - Mrinal Sen, Indian film director
1925 - Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano
1926 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
1927 - Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
1929 - Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)
1929 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1931 - Alvin Lucier, American composer
1933 - Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
1934 - Sian Phillips, Welsh actress
1936 - Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
1936 - Charlie Gracie, American singer
1936 - Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
1940 - Troy Shondell, American singer
1942 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
1942 - Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator
1942 - Prentis Hancock, British actor
1942 - Tony Pérez, Cuban baseball player
1942 - Rüdiger Vogler, German actor
1943 - Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream (band))
1943 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
1943 - Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)
1943 - Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure
1944 - George Lucas, American film director
1945 - Francesca Annis, British actress
1945 - Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa
1946 - Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
1947 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
1948 - Bob Woolmer, English cricket coach (d. 2007)
1949 - Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
1950 - Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
1952 - David Byrne (musician), Scottish-born American musician (Talking Heads)
1952 - Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler (d. 1987)
1952 - Donald R. McMonagle, American astronaut
1952 - Robert Zemeckis, American film director
1953 - Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)
1953 - Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
1954 - Jens Sparschuh, German writer
1955 - Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player
1957 - Leon White, American professional wrestler
1959 - Patrick Bruel, French singer
1959 - Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)
1959 - Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 - Anne Clark, English female singer
1960 - Steve Williams (wrestler), American wrestler
1961 - Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
1961 - Jean Leclerc (singer), French Canadian singer and songwriter
1961 - Tim Roth, English actor
1961 - Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
1962 - Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult)
1962 - C. C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
1963 - Pat Borders, American baseball player
1964 - James M. Kelly, American astronaut
1964 - Eric Peterson (musician), American guitarist (Testament (band))
1965 - Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
1966 - Marianne Denicourt, French actress
1966 - Mike Inez, American bassist
1966 - Fabrice Morvan, French music artist (Milli Vanilli)
1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
1967 - Tony Siragusa, American football player
1969 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
1969 - Danny Wood, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
1971 - Sofia Coppola, American director
1972 - Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician
1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1973 - Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director
1973 - Julian White, English rugby union footballer
1975 - Salim Iles, Algerian swimmer
1975 - Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer
1974 - Jennifer Allan, American model
1976 - Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI (band))
1976 - Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
1976 - Martine McCutcheon, British actress
1977 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player
1977 - Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
1978 - Los Lonely Boys, American singer and guitarist (Los Lonely Boys)
1978 - André Macanga, Angolan footballer
1978 - Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Clinton Morrison, English-born Irish footballer
1979 - Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 - Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
1980 - Eugène Martineau (athlete), Dutch decathlete
1980 - Júlia Sebestyén, Hungarian figure skater
1980 - Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union footballer
1981 - Sarbel, Greek-born singer
1982 - Anahí, Mexican actress and singer
1982 - BeardyMan, English beatboxer
1983 - Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player
1983 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress
1983 - Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
1984 - Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer
1984 - Michael Rensing, German footballer
1984 - Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
1984 - Mark Zuckerberg, founder & CEO of Facebook
1985 - Sally Martin, American actress
1986 - Camila Sodi, Mexican actress
1987 - Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1987 - Francois Steyn, South African rugby union footballer
1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
1993 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress

Deaths

964 - Pope John XII
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
1610 - Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1643 - Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
1761 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
1893 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
1912 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)
1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
1925 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
1934 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
1936 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)
1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
1959 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
1962 - Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
1970 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1982 - Hugh Beaumont (actor), American actor (b. 1909)
1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
1983 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
1984 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
1985 - Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
1991 - Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
1992 - Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
1992 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)
1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1916)
1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
2004 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
2006 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:

St. Matthias (Apostle)
Michael Garicoïts
St. Boniface of Tarsus
St. Victor and Corona
St. Vincent of Lerins
Mochuda
St. Engelmer
St. Engelmund
St. Just
St. Maria Dominic Mazzarello

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

May 14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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