Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 14
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The Talyllyn Railway's locomotive Dolgoch in 1951 -
U.S. Camel Corps at the Drum Barracks in California -
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1509 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces defeated the Venetians at the Battle of Agnadello in present-day Northern Italy. | refimprove |
| 1607 – An expedition led by Edward Maria Wingfield, Christopher Newport, and John Smith established Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America. | refimprove section |
| 1879 – The first group of Indian indentured workers arrived in Fiji on board the Leonidas, forming the nucleus of the Indo-Fijian community. | unreferenced section |
| 1913 – The New York State Legislature accepted the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which at one point was the world's wealthiest charitable foundation. | copyvio, refimprove section |
| 1925 – Mrs Dalloway, one of the best-known novels of English modernist author Virginia Woolf, was first published. | unreferenced section |
| 1955 – Cold War: Eight Eastern Bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty to establish the Warsaw Pact. | lots of inline tags in one section |
| 1961 – In Anniston, Alabama, U.S., a mob of Ku Klux Klansmen attacked the buses of the Freedom Riders, who were riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial groups to challenge local segregation laws. | refimprove section, indiscriminate list |
| 1988 – A drunk driver struck a converted school bus carrying a church youth group on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, U.S., killing 27 people. | refimprove |
| Sambhaji |b|1657 | unreferenced section |
| Charlotte Auerbach |b|1899 | refimprove sections |
| * 1796 – English physician Edward Jenner inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps, testing his hypothesis that cowpox infection would protect a patient from smallpox. | undercited |
| * 1973 – The NASA space station Skylab was launched from Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida. | too much uncited |
| Cheng Yen|b|1937| | Undercited |
Eligible
- 1804 – Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coast of the United States and back.
- 1856 – Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34 camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps (pictured).
- 1868 – Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
- 1878 – The last witchcraft trial in the United States opened in Salem, Massachusetts.
- 1919 – Sir Harry Hands, the mayor of Cape Town, performed the first public observance of a two-minute silence in remembrance of those killed in World War I.
- 1939 – In Lima, Peru, Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and twenty-one days.
- 1940 – World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.
- 1943 – Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.
- 1951 – Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
- 1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.
- 2008 – On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.
- 2010 – British politician Stephen Timms survived a murder attempt by an Islamic extremist during a constituency surgery.
- Born/died this day:Pope John XII |d|964| | William Walcher |d|1080| Hans Joachim von Zieten |b|1699| Fanny Mendelssohn |d|1847| Magnus Hirschfeld |bd|1868; 1935| Lysander Spooner |d|1887|Ants Kurvits |b|1887| Lawrence Weathers |b|1890| George Lucas |b|1944| Lucrezia Bori |d|1960| Cate Blanchett |b|1969| Christian B. Anfinsen |d|1995Marjory Stoneman Douglas |d|1998
May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias (Catholicism)
Monument to the Battle of Lewes
- 1264 – Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes (monument pictured) and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1857 – Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
- 1931 – Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
- 1948 – David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at a building later called Independence Hall in Tel Aviv.
- Fanny Imlay (b. 1794)
- Mary Seacole (d. 1881)
- Miranda Cosgrove (b. 1993)
- Taruni Sachdev (b. 1998; d. 2012)