This Day in History - May 14th

Featured Historical Event for May 14th Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. When his father died, Louis XIV became King of France on this day in 1643 when he was only 4 years old. He ruled for seventy-two years, making him the longest reigning king in Europe's history. In what year did his rule end? 1715

Historical Events That Occurred on May 14th

	Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. (1643)
	The first game of rugby in New Zealand (1870)
	The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris. (1900)
	Fun Fact Friday Snakes (2010)
	More about Asia (2011)
	Massachusetts and New Hampshire (2006)
	Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket. (1973)
	American Civil War: Battle of Jackson (1863)
	In Milan, Italy, during a demonstration of the far-left, some hooded extremist shoot at the police, killing a policeman, Antonino Custrà. The scene is photographed and the picture of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street will appear in many (1977)
	Paraguay gains independence from Spain. (1811)
	Israel declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel was attacked by the neighboring Arab state/ (1948)
	Coronation of Charles VIII of France (1483)
	The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London. (1889)
	The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen. (2004)
	Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five. (1939)
	The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement. (1935)
	World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany. (1940)
	The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain. (1861)
	Carrollton bus disaster - A drunk driver going the wrong way on a Kentucky highway hits a bus carrying a church youth group, causing the deaths of 27 people in the resulting fire. (1988)
	Protestant Union founded in Auhausen. (1608)
	Formula One Italian driver Elio De Angelis has a terrible crash with his Brabham at the Paul Ricard circuit in France during a test session. He will die the day later at the Marseille hospital. (1986)
	Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood. (2005)
	World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe. (1940)
	The finale of Seinfeld airs on NBC, with 76 million viewers tuning in to watch Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Elaine Benes, and Cosmo Kramer stand trial in the fictional Lathem, Massachusetts for breaking the Good Samaritan Law. (1998)
	The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River. (1804)
	American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob. (1961)
	Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton. (1929)
	First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. (1978)
	Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama. (1995)
	Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony. (1607)
	New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller. (1913)
	Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia. (2002)
	Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact. (1955)
	Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians. (1509)
	Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. (1796)
	Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg. (1927)
	Ådalen shootings, five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union manifestation. (1931)
	Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England. (1264)
	Concert in Caracas of El Trabuco Venezolano and Irakere (1981)
	In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States. (1787)
	Northamptonshire Cricket Club gains (1935)
	A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre. (1747)
	The Red Army Faction is established in Germany. (1970)

Holidays on May 14th

	St. Just
	Mother's Day in various countries (second Sunday of May in 2006).
	St. Michael Garicoits
	St. Boniface of Tarsus
	Paraguay - Flag Day.
	St. Maria Dominic Mazzarello
	Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
	St. Matthias (Apostle)
	St. Engelmer
	Israel - Yom Ha'atzma'ut, or Israeli Independence Day. The observed date of this national holiday is determined by the Jewish Calendar.
	St. Victor and Corona
	St. Carthach the Younger
	St. Vincent of Lerins
	DubsDay in Dublin Ireland (14th of May in 2006).
	St. Engelmund

Notable People Born on May 14th

	Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (1832)
	Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player (1959)
	Kurt Eisner, German politician and publicist (1867)
	King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (1710)
	Patrick Bruel, French singer (1959)
	Robert Zemeckis, American film director (1952)
	Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV of France (1553)
	Bobby Darin, American singer (1936)
	Dennis Martinez, Major League baseball player (1955)
	William Emerson, English mathematician (1701)
	Wilhelm List, German field marshal (1880)
	Troy Shondell, American singer (1940)
	Steve Hogarth, British singer (1959)
	Miranda Cosgrove, American actress (1993)
	Sarbel, Greek-born singer (1981)
	Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (1942)
	Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player (1929)
	Eoin Colfer, Irish writer (1965)
	George Lucas, American film director and producer (1944)
	Steve Williams, American professional wrestler (1960)
	Sidney Bechet, American musician (1897)
	Siân Phillips, Welsh actress (1934)
	Cate Blanchett, Australian actress (1969)
	Richard Deacon, American actor (1921)
	Ian Astbury, English singer (1962)
	Bob Woolmer, Indian-born cricket coach (1948)
	David Byrne, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1952)
	Amber Tamblyn, American actress (1983)
	Hunter Burgan, AFI Bassist (1976)
	Raphael Saadiq, American music artist (1966)
	Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (1771)
	Jack Bruce, bassist (1943)
	Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia (1953)
	Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress (1977)
	Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666)
	Tim Roth, English actor (1961)
	Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (1885)
	Alvin Lucier, American composer (1931)
	Charlie Gracie, American singer (1936)
	Tony Pérez, Major League baseball player (1942)
	Franjo Tuman, President of Croatia (1922)
	Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland (1943)
	Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (1727)
	Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, (1928)
	Eric Morecambe, British comedian (1926)
	Derek Leckenby, Lead guitar (1943)
	Eric Peterson, Canadian actor (1946)
	Leon White, professional wrestler (1957)
	Lou Harrison, American composer (1917)
	Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator (1942)
	Tony Siragusa, American football player (1967)
	Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (1699)
	Tom Cochrane, Canadian singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1953)
	Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316)
	Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (1907)
	David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1703)
	Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (1904)
	Martine McCutcheon, British actress (1976)
	Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (1899)

Notable People That Died on May 14th

	Sidney Bechet, American musician (1959)
	Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (2006)
	Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (1847)
	Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (1860)
	Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (1919)
	Stanley Kunitz, American poet (2006)
	Matthew Lewis, English novelist (1818)
	Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (1754)
	Antoine Furetière, French writer (1688)
	Robert Stack, American actor (2003)
	Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (1973)
	King Frederick VIII of Denmark (1912)
	Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (1968)
	Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (1997)
	King Louis XIII of France (1643)
	H. Rider Haggard, English author (1925)
	Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1943)
	Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (1887)
	Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist and feminist (1940)
	Heber J. Grant, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1945)
	Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (2000)
	Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (1906)
	Anna Lee, British actress (2004)
	Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (1873)
	Heinz Guderian, German General (1954)
	Rita Hayworth, American actress (1987)
	Jiang Qing, Madame Mao (1991)
	Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (1923)
	Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (1978)
	Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1988)
	August Strindberg, Swedish author (1912)
	Hugh Beaumont, American actor (1982)
	Dame Wendy Hiller, British actress (2003)
	Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (1998)
	King Henry IV of France (1610)
	Georges de Scudéry, French writer (1669)
	Billie Burke, American actress (1970)
	Roger J. Traynor, American judge (1983)
	William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (1993)
	Volney E. Howard, American politician (1889)
	Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (1957)
	Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1995)
	Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (1649)
	Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (2003)
	Pope John XII (964)
	King Charles VIII of Sweden (1470)
	Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (1608)
	Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (1936)
	Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (1969)
	David Belasco, American theatrical producer and playwright (1931)
	Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (1761)
	Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (1992)
	Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (1998)
	Keith Relf, British singer and musician (1976)