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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| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 1787 – Delegates from the thirteen U.S. states convened the Constitutional Convention (depicted) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the intention of revising the Articles of Confederation. | The convention was actually postponed on that day, and didn't kick off properly until May 25 |
| 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition led by explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, and began the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. | unreferenced 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. | 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. | multiple issues |
| 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. | no footnotes |
| Sambhaji (b. 1657) | weasel words |
| Charlotte Auerbach (b. 1899) | refimprove sections |
Eligible
- 1796 – English physician Edward Jenner began testing cowpox as a vaccine against smallpox.
- 1878 – The last witchcraft trial in the United States opened in Salem, Massachusetts.
- 1931 – Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
- 1940 – World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the 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.
- 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.
- Born/died this day: Fanny Imlay (b. 1794) · Mary Seacole (d. 1881) · Marjory Stoneman Douglas (d. 1998)
May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias
- 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.
- 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.
- 1973 – The NASA space station Skylab (pictured) was launched from Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador were attacked by both Salvadoran Armed Forces and the Honduran military, resulting in at least 300 deaths.
William Walcher (d. 1080) · Fanny Mendelssohn (d. 1847) · George Lucas (b. 1944)