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Events on the 14th of May in history

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14 May 0649 Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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14 May 1004 Henry II the Saint crowned as king of Italy
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14 May 1027 Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France
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14 May 1264 Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
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14 May 1264 Baron's War fought in England
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14 May 1264 Battle at Lewes: Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III
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14 May 1509 Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
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14 May 1509 Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
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14 May 1576 Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
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14 May 1590 Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League
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14 May 1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia
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14 May 1607 Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
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14 May 1608 The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
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14 May 1610 Henry IV of France is assassinated, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
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14 May 1638 Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon
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14 May 1643 Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
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14 May 1643 Louis XIV (4) becomes king of France
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14 May 1664 Turkish great K
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14 May 1702 England and Netherlands declares war on France and Spain
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14 May 1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw
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14 May 1747 War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
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14 May 1767 British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
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14 May 1787 In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
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14 May 1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution
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14 May 1796 Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
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14 May 1796 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
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14 May 1800 Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth" premieres in Weimar
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14 May 1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
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14 May 1804 Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for the Pacific Coast
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14 May 1811 Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
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14 May 1811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day)
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14 May 1832 Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" premieres
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14 May 1835 Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile
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14 May 1836 The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
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14 May 1842 1st edition of London Illustrated News
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14 May 1845 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens
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14 May 1853 Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk
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14 May 1862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents the chronograph
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14 May 1863 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi
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14 May 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
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14 May 1863 Battle of Jackson MS
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14 May 1864 Battle of Reseca, Atlanta, Georgia
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14 May 1864 Battle of Reseca GA -Atlanta- (2nd day)
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14 May 1868 Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
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14 May 1870 The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
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14 May 1874 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0
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14 May 1874 Harvard beats University of McGill (Montreal) in football, 3-0
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14 May 1874 Harvard beats University of McGill (Montr
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14 May 1878 Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
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14 May 1879 The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the  Leonidas.
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14 May 1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US
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14 May 1885 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37
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14 May 1886 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36
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14 May 1888 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38
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14 May 1889 The children's charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
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14 May 1890 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45
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14 May 1892 Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem
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14 May 1894 Fire in the Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
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14 May 1896 Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10
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14 May 1897 The Stars and Stripes Forever is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia.
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14 May 1897 Great-Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
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14 May 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Fransisco
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14 May 1904 1st Olympics in the US are held (St Louis)
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14 May 1905 2nd official international soccer match, Netherlands beats Belgium 4-0
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14 May 1906 Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising
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14 May 1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
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14 May 1910 Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
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14 May 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.
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14 May 1913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
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14 May 1913 Washington Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings
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14 May 1914 Chicago's Jim Scott no-hits Cleveland, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
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14 May 1918 Indians' Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19)
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14 May 1918 Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington DC
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14 May 1919 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53
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14 May 1919 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta
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14 May 1920 Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season
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14 May 1920 Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
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14 May 1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
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14 May 1921 Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
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14 May 1925 Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
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14 May 1927 "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie
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14 May 1927 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06
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14 May 1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
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14 May 1931 Ådalen shootings: Five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
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14 May 1932 "We Want Beer!" parade in New York
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14 May 1932 "We Want Beer!" parade in New York
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14 May 1935 Griffith Planetarium opens in LA
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14 May 1935 The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
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14 May 1935 Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
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14 May 1935 Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement
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14 May 1938 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8
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14 May 1938 English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
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14 May 1939 Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
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14 May 1940 The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, makes its first flight.
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14 May 1940 World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
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14 May 1940 World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
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14 May 1940 Admiral Furstner departs to England
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14 May 1940 Boston's Jimmie Foxx homerun goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof
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14 May 1940 German breakthrough at Sedan
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14 May 1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
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14 May 1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
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14 May 1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
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14 May 1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded
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14 May 1943 World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
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14 May 1944 91 German bombers harass Bristol
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14 May 1944 British troops occupy Kohima
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14 May 1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
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14 May 1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
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14 May 1946 Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love" premieres
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14 May 1948 Israel declares independence from under British administration
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14 May 1948 WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
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14 May 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.
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14 May 1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
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14 May 1948 Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
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14 May 1948 PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel
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14 May 1948 US grants Israel de facto recognition
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14 May 1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
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14 May 1949 "Love Life" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 252 performances
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14 May 1949 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56
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14 May 1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
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14 May 1950 Pittsburgh Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 homeruns
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14 May 1951 "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
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14 May 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.
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14 May 1951 Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC
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14 May 1951 Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley" premieres at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
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14 May 1954 Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
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14 May 1955 Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
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14 May 1955 US performs nuclear test in Pacific Ocean
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14 May 1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
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14 May 1957 "New Girt in Town" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 432 performances
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14 May 1957 Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town" premieres at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances
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14 May 1960 "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 performances
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14 May 1960 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
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14 May 1960 Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis" premieres in Pottstown NY
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14 May 1961 American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
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14 May 1961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
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14 May 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open
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14 May 1962 Ex-President Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
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14 May 1962 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
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14 May 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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14 May 1963 Kuwait joins the United Nations.
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14 May 1963 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
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14 May 1964 Underground America Day is 1st observed
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14 May 1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
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14 May 1966 "A Lover's Concerto" by Mrs Miller hits #95
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14 May 1966 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (New Jersey)
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14 May 1967 Mickey Mantle's 500th homerun off Oriole's Stu Miller
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14 May 1967 Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
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14 May 1968 Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
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14 May 1968 Czechoslovakian Government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek
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14 May 1968 RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin
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14 May 1969 Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
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14 May 1969 Last Chevrolet Corvair built
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14 May 1970 New York City local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
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14 May 1970 The Red Army Faction is established in West Germany.
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14 May 1970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State University, Mississippi)
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14 May 1970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to the Supreme Court
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14 May 1970 NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
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14 May 1970 RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
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14 May 1972 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton
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14 May 1972 In Willie Mays 1st game as a New York Met his homer beats the San Fransisco Giants, 5-4
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14 May 1973 Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
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14 May 1973 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
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14 May 1973 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV
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14 May 1973 Skylab launched, the 1st Space Station
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14 May 1973 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
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14 May 1974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
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14 May 1975 Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II
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14 May 1975 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
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14 May 1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
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14 May 1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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14 May 1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
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14 May 1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
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14 May 1977 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
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14 May 1977 English football international Bobby Moore retires
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14 May 1977 Kansas City Royals Jim Colborn no-hits the Texas Rangers, 6-0
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14 May 1977 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
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14 May 1977 Stanley Cup: Montr
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14 May 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
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14 May 1980 "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
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14 May 1980 Department of Health & Human Services begins operation
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14 May 1980 Bucky Dent hits an inside the park homerun, Royals walk 14 Yankees including 5 with bases loaded, Yankees win 16-3
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14 May 1980 Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II
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14 May 1981 35th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2
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14 May 1981 NASA launches space vehicle S-192
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14 May 1982 Guinea adopts constitution
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14 May 1983 "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5
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14 May 1983 Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
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14 May 1983 Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)
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14 May 1984 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama wins
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14 May 1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
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14 May 1986 Reggie Jackson hit his 537th homerun passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
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14 May 1987 "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
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14 May 1987 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
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14 May 1988 "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances
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14 May 1988 Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
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14 May 1988 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St Louis Cardinals lose to the Atlanta Braves 7-5 in 19 innings
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14 May 1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
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14 May 1989 "Moonlighting", TV Crime Drama, last airs on ABC
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14 May 1989 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
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14 May 1989 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
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14 May 1989 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
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14 May 1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square
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14 May 1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
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14 May 1990 46th time opposing pitchers hit homerun, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)
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14 May 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,821.53
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14 May 1991 42 die in a train collision is Japan
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14 May 1991 Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
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14 May 1991 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
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14 May 1991 World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
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14 May 1992 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll
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14 May 1994 Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617
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14 May 1994 FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London
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14 May 1994 Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46)
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14 May 1995 "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances
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14 May 1995 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins
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14 May 1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader
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14 May 1995 Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career homerun (ties for 18th)
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14 May 1996 New York Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0
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14 May 1997 Baseball's Exec Council suspends New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner
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14 May 1998 Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2 million for 30 seconds)
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14 May 2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
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14 May 2012 Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
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14 May 2013 Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.
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