About May 14
May 14, 2023 is the 134th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 272 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 14
- 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.
- 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.
- 1796 –Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
- 1811 –Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
- 1870 –The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
- 1889 –The children’s charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
- 1925 –Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
- 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.
- 1931 –Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
- 1935 –The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
- 1939 –Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
- 1940 –World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 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.
- 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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