May 14

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May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (135th in leap years). There are 231 days remaining.

Events

1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1509 - Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat Venitians.
1643 - Four year-old Louix XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new 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.
1889 - children's cruelty charity NSPCC launched in London
1900 - The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris, France
1913 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1935 - Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
1940 - World War II: The Dutch city of Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany.
1948 - Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
1948 - The murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn, England leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.
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: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
1973 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
1995 - The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
1998 - After nine years on the air, the series finale of the television sitcom Seinfeld aires on NBC.