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What Happened on May 14th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
2012	Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
2010	Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first shuttle-launched Russian ISS component — Rassvet. This was originally slated to be the final launch of Atlantis, before Congress approved STS-135.
2008	Battle of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre between Zenit supporters and Rangers supporters and the Greater Manchester Police, 39 policemen injured, one police-dog injured and 39 arrested.
2004	The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
2004	Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people.
1988	Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
1987	Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
1980	Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
1977	A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.
1973	Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
1970	Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction.
1961	Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
1955	Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1953	Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a walkout, marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike.
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.
1948	Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1943	World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
1940	World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire, killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center.
1939	Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1935	The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
1931	Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
1918	Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
1915	The May 14 Revolt takes place in Lisbon, Portugal.
1913	Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1900	Opening of World Amateur championship at the Paris Exposition Universelle, also known as Olympic Games.
1879	The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
1878	The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
1870	The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1868	Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward.
1863	American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
1836	The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
1811	Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor.
1804	William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join Meriwether Lewis at St Charles, Missouri, marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's historic journey up the Missouri River.
1800	The 6th United States Congress recesses, and the process of moving the Federal government of the United States from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., begins the following day.
1796	Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
1747	War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1643	Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1610	Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac, and Louis XIII ascends the throne.
1608	The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states.
1607	English colonists establish "James Fort," which would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1509	Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Republic of Venice.
1264	Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the effective ruler of England.
1097	The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
1027	Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.

Famous People Born on May 14

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Year	Name
1952	Donald R. McMonagle, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1949	Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
1996	Blake Brockington, American trans man and activist (d. 2015)
1900	Leo Smit, Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1943)
1980	Hugo Southwell, English-Scottish rugby player
1771	Robert Owen, Welsh businessman and social reformer (d. 1858)
1952	Raul Mälk, Estonian politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1928	Dub Jones, American R&B bass singer (d. 2000)
1980	Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
1953	Hywel Williams, Welsh politician

Famous People Deaths On May 14

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on May 14. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2015	B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1925)
1954	Heinz Guderian, Prussian-German general (b. 1888)
1667	Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1601)
1976	Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1943)
2001	Paul Bénichou, French writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian (b. 1908)
1997	Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician and author (b. 1934)
1934	Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager (b. 1872)
1754	Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright and producer (b. 1692)
1960	Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano and actress (b. 1887)
1959	Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1897)