About May 14
May 14, 2021 is the 134th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 263 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 14
- 1607 –Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1610 –Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
- 1747 –War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
- 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.
- 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 laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the ship .
- 1889 –The children’s charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 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.
- 1929 –Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1963 –Kuwait joins the United Nations.
- 1973 –Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
- 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.
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