About May 14
May 14, 2025 is the 134th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 279 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.
- 1483 –Coronation of Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable).
- 1607 –Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1608 –The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
- 1643 –Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- 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.
- 1836 –The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
- 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.
- 1935 –The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
- 1940 –World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 1943 –A Japanese submarine sinks Ship AHS off the coast of Queensland.
- 1951 –Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
- 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.
- 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.
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