WillDekkard
05-14-2010, 05:29 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 14th
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* 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 A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
* 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 gains independence from Spain.
* 1836 The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
* 1861 The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
* 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 in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
* 1879 The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
* 1889 The children's charity the NSPCC 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.
* 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.
* 1929 Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
* 1931 Εdalen shootings: five people are killed in Εdalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
* 1935 The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
* 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 German Luftwaffe.
* 1940 World War II: The Netherlands surrenders 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.
* 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 Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
* 1986 Pride of Baltimore is lost at sea.
* 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. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
* 2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
* 2005 The former USS America, 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.
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- May 14th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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 A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
* 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 gains independence from Spain.
* 1836 The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
* 1861 The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
* 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 in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
* 1879 The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
* 1889 The children's charity the NSPCC 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.
* 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.
* 1929 Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
* 1931 Εdalen shootings: five people are killed in Εdalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
* 1935 The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
* 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 German Luftwaffe.
* 1940 World War II: The Netherlands surrenders 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.
* 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 Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
* 1986 Pride of Baltimore is lost at sea.
* 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. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
* 2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
* 2005 The former USS America, 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.
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