14 maggio
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May 14 is the 134th day of the Gregorian calendar (135th in leap years). 231 days to go until the end of the year.
Events
1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France, making Simon V of Montfort the de facto governor of England
1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France
1509 - Battle of Agnadello: in northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians
1610 - Paris-Louis XIII becomes king of France, his reign will last exactly 33 years.
1643 - Just four years old Louis XIV becomes king of France, his reign will be the longest of a European sovereign.
1706 - The Siege of Turin begins
1787 - Philadelphia: Delegates begin to meet to write a new constitution for the United States of America
1796 - Edward Jenner gives the first smallpox vaccination
1801 - Libya: Pasha Yusuf Karamanli drops the flag of the US consulate in Tripoli
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey up the Missouri River
1836 - Treaties of Velasco: Mexico recognizes independence from Texas
1870 - The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played, in Nelson, between Nelson College and Nelson Rugby Football Club
1900 - The 1900 Summer Olympics opens in Paris, France
1913 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the Rockefeller Foundation charter, which begins operating with a $ 100,000,000 gift from John D. Rockefeller
1914 - The Hellenic Holocaust begins, according to an official document sent by Talaat Bey (interior minister) to the prefect of Smyrna
1926 - The Norge airship completes the transarctic flight, reaching Teller, Alaska
1927 - Launch of the Cap Arcona, from the Blohm und Voss shipyards, in Hamburg
1931 - Bologna: at the Teatro Comunale Arturo Toscanini is slapped by a group of fascists for refusing to play Giovinezza, the fascist anthem
1935 - The Philippines ratify an independence agreement.
1939 - At the age of 5, Lina Medina becomes the youngest mother in the history of medicine.
1940
World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Rotterdam shortly after the Netherlands formally surrendered to Nazi Germany.
World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany
1948 - Israel declares itself an independent state and a provisional government is established.
1955 - Cold War: Eight Communist Bloc nations, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact
1961 - American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Riders' bus is set on fire near Anniston, Alabama, and civil rights protesters are beaten by angry mob
1964 - Egypt: the works for the construction of the Aswan Dam are completed (which will be inaugurated on January 15, 1971)
1970 - The Rote Armee Fraktion is founded in West Germany
1973 - Skylab, the first US space station, is launched
1977 - Milan: during the protests following the killing of Giorgiana Masi on May 12, a group of autonomous fires on the police, seriously injuring the deputy police sergeant Antonio Custra who died the next day
1987 - Johnny Chan, winning the World Series of Poker, is world champion in poker, will repeat again the following year
1991 - Winnie Mandela, wife of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, is arrested in South Africa on charges of complicity in the kidnapping of four young men.
1995
Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, proclaims Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (age 6), as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
Carlos Saúl Menem is re-elected president of the Argentine Republic
1997 - The airlines Air Canada, Lufthansa, SAS, Thai Airways International and United Airlines form
