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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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U.S. Camel Corps at the Drum Barracks in California
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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 | unreferenced section |
| Charlotte Auerbach |b|1899 | refimprove sections |
| * 1796 – English physician Edward Jenner inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps, testing his hypothesis that cowpox infection would protect a patient from smallpox. | undercited |
| * 1973 – The NASA space station Skylab was launched from Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida. | too much uncited |
| Cheng Yen|b|1937| | Undercited |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1856 – Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34 camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps (pictured).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1940 – World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 – On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.
- Born/died this day:Pope John XII |d|964| | William Walcher |d|1080| Hans Joachim von Zieten |b|1699| Fanny Mendelssohn |d|1847| Magnus Hirschfeld |bd|1868; 1935| Lysander Spooner |d|1887|Ants Kurvits |b|1887| Lawrence Weathers |b|1890| George Lucas |b|1944| Lucrezia Bori |d|1960| Cate Blanchett |b|1969| Christian B. Anfinsen |d|1995Marjory Stoneman Douglas |d|1998
May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias (Catholicism)
Monument to the Battle of Lewes
- 1264 – Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes (monument pictured) and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1857 – Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
- 1931 – Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
- 1948 – David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall in Tel Aviv.
- Fanny Imlay (b. 1794)
- Mary Seacole (d. 1881)
- Taruni Sachdev (b. 1998; d. 2012)