Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 14
This is a list of selected May 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1509 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces defeated the Venetians at the Battle of Agnadello in present-day Northern Italy. | refimprove |
| 1607 – An expedition led by Edward Maria Wingfield, Christopher Newport, and John Smith established Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America. | refimprove section |
| 1879 – The first group of Indian indentured workers arrived in Fiji on board the Leonidas, forming the nucleus of the Indo-Fijian community. | unreferenced section |
| 1913 – The New York State Legislature accepted the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which at one point was the world's wealthiest charitable foundation. | copyvio, refimprove section |
| 1925 – Mrs Dalloway, one of the best-known novels of English modernist author Virginia Woolf, was first published. | unreferenced section |
| 1955 – Cold War: Eight Eastern Bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty to establish the Warsaw Pact. | lots of inline tags in one section |
| 1961 – In Anniston, Alabama, U.S., a mob of Ku Klux Klansmen attacked the buses of the Freedom Riders, who were riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial groups to challenge local segregation laws. | refimprove section, indiscriminate list |
| 1988 – A drunk driver struck a converted school bus carrying a church youth group on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, U.S., killing 27 people. | refimprove |
| Sambhaji (b. 1657) | weasel words |
| Charlotte Auerbach (b. 1899) | refimprove sections |
Eligible
- 1264 – Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1868 – Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
- 1878 – The last witchcraft trial in the United States opened in Salem, Massachusetts.
- 1919 – Sir Harry Hands, the mayor of Cape Town, performed the first public observance of a two-minute silence in remembrance of those killed in World War I.
- 1931 – Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
- 1939 – In Lima, Peru, Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and twenty-one days.
- 1943 – Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.
- 1948 – David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at the present-day Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, officially establishing the state of Israel in parts of the former British Mandate of Palestine.
- 1951 – Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
- 1973 – The NASA space station Skylab (pictured) was launched from Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- Born/died this day: William Walcher (d. 1080) | Fanny Imlay (b. 1794) | Fanny Mendelssohn (d. 1847) | Mary Seacole (d. 1881) | Lysander Spooner (d. 1887) | Lawrence Weathers (b. 1890) | George Lucas (b. 1944) | Marjory Stoneman Douglas (d. 1998)
May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias (Catholicism)
- 1796 – English physician Edward Jenner (portrait shown) inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps, testing his hypothesis that cowpox infection would protect a patient from smallpox.
- 1804 – Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coast of the United States and back.
- 1940 – World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.
- 1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.
- Hans Joachim von Zieten (b. 1699)
- Magnus Hirschfeld (b. 1868; d. 1935)
- Cate Blanchett (b. 1969)