About May 14
May 14, 2024 is the 135th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 260 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 14
- 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.
- 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 –War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
- 1787 –In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
- 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: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
- 1836 –The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
- 1868 –Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
- 1879 –The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the ship .
- 1925 –Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
- 1935 –The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
- 1939 –Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
- 1940 –The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight.
- 1940 –World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 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.
- 1970 –The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
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