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History on the 14th of May

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14 May 1607 RELIGIOUS In Virginia, on the first Sunday after the arrival of the Jamestown Expedition, Anglican priest Robert Hunt, 39, held the first Anglican service in the New World. Named chaplain of the expedition to Jamestown, Hunt was also the first Anglican priest to come to America.
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14 May 1912 WW2 King Frederick VIII of Denmark (age 68) collapsed and died whilst on a walk in Hamburg, Germany. 
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14 May 1916 WW2 Quintin Brand became a pilot with the No. 1 Squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps. 
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14 May 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Otranto Straits
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14 May 1918 WW2 Trouble flaired on the Trans-Siberian railway at Chelyabinsk, Russia when a train carrying Hungarian prisoners of war who were being repatriated under the terms of the Brest-Litocsk treaty drew up alongside several trains filled with troops of the 3rd and 6th Czech regiment. The Czechs had been kept there for several days waiting for authority to continue, and their tempers were badly frayed and the sight of these Austrians on their way home did nothing to improve matters. Insults were hurled between the trains, and a Czech soldier was injured by a piece of iron thrown by a Hungarian. Impassioned the Czech soldiers boarded the Hungarian train preventing it from leaving, seized and lynched the culprit. A detachment of Red Guards now arrived on the scene and took away a number of Czechs to a nearby town to be held as witnesses pending an inquiry. When two days later a Czech officer went to secure their release he was arrested and imprisoned. The Czechs were furious; forming two battalions they marched on the town and forced the Soviets to hand over the imprisoned men and also seizing a quantity of weapons from the town arsenal. 
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14 May 1920 WW2 Quintin Brand was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. 
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14 May 1931 WW2 At the town of Adalen, Sweden military troops brought in to protect strike-breakers at a timber and pulp factory opened fire on the strikers and killed five. 
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14 May 1932 RELIGIOUS Death of John Hughes, 59, Welsh rail official and church worker. During his life, Hughes composed a number of hymns, including CWM RHONDDA, to which the Church today still sings "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah."
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14 May 1935 WW2 The people of the Philippine Islands ratified the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines via a popular vote. 
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14 May 1936 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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14 May 1937 WW2 A purge began in the Soviet military. 
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14 May 1938 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was placed in charge of the Special Operations Department of the Japanese North China Area Army. 
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14 May 1939 WW2 Two regiments of Japanese 23rd Division drove off Mongolian troops in the Nomonhan area in the Mongolia Area of China. 
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14 May 1940 WW2 Anthony Eden, UK Secretary of State for War, called for volunteers to create the Local Defense Volunteers (LDV); more than 250,000 enrolled within the first 24 hours. . 
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14 May 1940 WW2 General Rudolf Schmidt's German 9th Panzer Corps threatened the Dutch city of Rotterdam with aerial bombardment, and the Dutch garrison surrendered; some Luftwaffe aircraft, however, did not get the order to abort; 95 tons of bombs were dropped on Rotterdam, killing 1,000 civilians and rendering 85,000 homeless. Elsewhere in the Netherlands, Dutch Commander-in-Chief General Winkelman ordered his forces to cease fighting as the situation became hopeless. In Belgium, Erwin Rommel personally led a 30-tank charge near Dinant, pushing back French and Belgian forces three miles. Near Sedan, France, Heinz Guderian's three armored divisions crossed the Meuse River. In central Belium, German Gernal Erich Hoepner sent 3rd and 4th Panzer Divisions in pursuit of the French defeated at the Battle of Hannut in the previous two days, but French anti-tank artillery fire destroyed many pursuers. 
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14 May 1940 WW2 The British Admiralty required the owner of large boats to send in specifications within two weeks. 
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14 May 1940 WW2 Werner Mölders was shot down over Sedan, France, but was able to bail out to safety. 
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14 May 1940 WW2 Winston Churchill told American Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph Kennedy that even if Britain was to be conquered by Germany, the British government would continue the fight from Canada with the Royal Navy. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 The British RAF formed No. 121 Squadron, also known as the second Eagle Squadron. It was consisted of American volunteers. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 Romania passed laws which required all adult Jews to become forced laborers. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 Axis aircraft attempted to locate British troop concentrations near the Libyan-Egyptian border as a British offensive was suspected; none were found. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 Battleship Bismarck and light cruiser Leipzig conducted exercises; the port side crane was damaged during the exercises. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 Battleship Bismarck and light cruiser Leipzig conducted exercises. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 A British Blenheim bomber flying reconnaissance over Syria spotted a German Ju 90 transport aircraft at the Vichy French airfield at Palmyra. The British government gave permission to attack, and RAF fighter soon attacked the airfield, damaging two He 111 bombers. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 British cruiser HMS Dido departed Suda Bay, Crete, Greece and headed for Alexandria, Egypt with £7,000,000 worth of Greek gold aboard. She was escorted by destroyers HMS Stuart, HMS Vendetta, HMS Janus, and HMS Isis. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis sank British ship Rabaul with shellfire 500 miles west of South Africa; 7 were killed, 51 were captured. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 Victorious was commissioned into service. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 Lord Gort was appointed the Governor of Gibraltar. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 3,600 French Jews in Paris, France were arrested. 
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14 May 1941 WW2 Kaga departed the drydocks at Sasebo, Japan. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 USS Tangier arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia with flying boats, thus freeing fleet carriers from scouting duty. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 The US Congress established the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-564 sank Mexican tanker Potrero del Llano off Florida, United States; 13 were killed, 22 survived. German submarine U-106 sank Mexican tanker Faja de Oro off Key West, Florida, killing 3. South of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, U-506 seriously damaged US tanker David McKelvy, killing 17 of 36 aboard; she would later be written off. 50 miles west of Grenada, U-155 sank Belgian ship Brabant. 14 miles southwest by of Grand Cayman island, U-125 sank Honduran ship Comayagua. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 HMS Vetch attacked and sank the German submarine U-252 in the Atlantic Ocean. 90 miles northeast of Barbados, U-162 sank British tanker British Colony with 6 torpedoes; 4 were killed, 43 survived. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 USS Tuna sank Japanese transport Toyoharu Maru 65 miles off Sohuksando, Korea. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 British RAF aircraft sank German minesweepers M26 and M256 off Cherbourg, France at 1400 hours. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 German minesweeping trawler M-1307 struck a friendly mine and sank in the North Sea. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Turbulent sank small Italian vessel San Giusto with her deck gun off Ras el Hilal, Libya at 2100 hours; San Giusto exploded as her cargo of 161 tons of gasoline was detonated. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 Admiral Ernest King finally agreed to allow Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews to organize cutters and other small armed vessels to protect shipping on the US Atlantic coast. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 British cruiser HMS Trinidad was damaged by German aircraft, killing 63 in the Barents Sea north of Norway. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 A German Fw 200 Condor aircraft discovered Trinidad off northern Russia at 0730 hours; at 1852 hours, two BV 138 aircraft relieved the Fw 200 aircraft in shadowing the cruiser; at 2200 hours, a wave of aircraft attacked and damaged the cruiser. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 Lieutenant Aleksey Khlobystov, commanding officer of Soviet 20th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, rammed his Kittyhawk fighter against a German Bf 109 fighter, bringing both aircraft down; this was his third time attacking German aircraft in this manner. He survived the parachute descent, albeit with serious wounds; he would return to combat in Dec 1943. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 An Allied convoy ran into a minefield laid by German submarine U-561 5 miles off of Port Said, Egypt on 14 Apr 1942; Greek ship Mount Olympus sank while Greek ship Fred and Norwegian ship Hav were damaged by explosions; the fire aboard Hav would grow out of control and she would later be written off. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort presented his Midway Atoll theory to Chester Nimitz's war plans officer Lynde McCormick. McCormick spent hours at Rochefort's office at the basement of the main navy building in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii and was convinced that Rochefort's theory was likely correct. McCormick would return to Nimitz and would convince Nimitz to agree to this theory. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 Soviet destroyer Dzerzhinski struck a mine and sank near Sevastopol, Russia. 
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14 May 1942 WW2 Newly arrived German aircraft in the Kharkov region in Ukraine overcame Soviet aircraft and halted the northern pincer of the Soviet attack. On the ground, General Ewald von Kleist prepared his German 1st Panzergruppe for a counterattack ordered by Adolf Hitler. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 The Australian hospital ship Centaur was sunk by a Japanese submarine. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 Remy Van Lierde became the first pilot to drop bombs on an enemy target from a Typhoon fighter; en route back to base, he shot down a German He 111 bomber, which was his third kill. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 US 475th Fighter Group was established in Australia. Lieutenant Colonel George Prentiss would arrive one week later to take command of this new formation. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 Robert Johnson saw action in flight for the first time while escorting B-17 bombers over Belgium, damaging two German Fw 190 aircraft. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 Japanese 3rd Division captured Gong'an, Hunan Province, China. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 British Mosquito reconnaissance aircraft photographed a German rocket at Peenemünde, Germany; it was estimated to be 38 feet in length and 2 feet in diameter. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 Shokaku departed Kure, Japan for another series of trips to Oita, Iwasihima, and Tokuyama. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 The Martin B-26 Marauder made its operational debut in northern Europe with a partially successful attack by US 322nd Bomb Group on the Velsen power station at Ijmuiden in the Netherlands. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 In Britain, following more "Upkeep" bomb dropping training at the Wainfleet Bombing Range on the Wash (where a wooden mock up of the dam's towers had been constructed) at full night dress rehearsal was conducted on the Uppingham and Colchester reservoirs. 
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14 May 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell arrived in Washington DC, United States to attend the Trident Conference. 
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14 May 1944 WW2 Yamato arrived at Tawi-Tawi, where she would remain for gunnery drills at range of nearly 22 miles with sister ship Musashi through Jun 1944. 
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14 May 1944 WW2 Musashi arrived at Tawi Tawi, where she would remain for gunnery drills at range of nearly 22 miles with sister ship Yamato through Jun 1944. 
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14 May 1944 WW2 Luftwaffe Leutnant August Lambert was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal for 90 kills. Of the nearly 250 Soviet aircraft shot down by II/SG2 during the Gruppe's six-month defence of the Crimea region in Ukraine, more than a third had fallen to Lambert's guns. 
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14 May 1944 WW2 1st Anti-Fascist Partisan Brigade commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Gil, who was also known as I. G. Rodionov, was killed in action. 
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14 May 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Marcus and Wake Islands. 
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14 May 1944 WW2 Heinrich Kreipe and his captors were picked up by a British ship at near Rodakino, Crete, Greece. 
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14 May 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Grading for the foundation began on the engine overhaul facility. 
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14 May 1944 WW2 French Moroccan colonial troops outflanked German defenses in the Liri River valley in Italy. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 The Austrian Republic was reformed, free of German influence, and the Anschluss was declared null and void. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Heligoland Island, Germany was occupied by British troops. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 The Norwegian resistance group Milorg was formally dissolved. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged USS Enterprise off Okinawa, Japan. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Australian troops landed on Borneo. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 472 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on Nagoya, Japan as part of the first of two days of saturation bombing on Japanese cities. The Americans would drop 16,000 tons of napalm and oil bombs during the campaign; vast areas were burned out but 77 B-29 bombers failed to return. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Adolf Galland was captured by the US Army. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Alan Brooke reprimanded Oliver Leese for his intention to dismiss William Slim. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Chub departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Chinese guerrilla fighters (who had been trained by the staff of Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) Camp Four) under the tactical command of US Navy officer Donald Wilcox attacked a Japanese armored force 130 miles south of Xamba, Suiyuan Province, China. The attackers made use of a unusual weapon, a horse-mounted bazooka. They killed 60 Japanese soldiers and destroyed 2 tanks, while suffering 2 killed. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Tunny departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her ninth war patrol. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Maizuru, Japan. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Alabama shot down two of the several Japanese aircraft that attempted to attack US warships; she also shared credit with anti-aircraft crews of other ships for the downing two other aircraft during the attack. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Springer's crew observed a dogfight between a Japanese fighter and four US fighters; after seeing the Japanese fighter fall into the water, the crew recovered the body of the dead Japanese pilot, retrieved papers for intelligence, and gave the piot a proper sea burial. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Two PV-1 aircraft of US Navy squadron VPB-137 from Clark Field in the Philippine Islands conducted a reconnaissance mission over Taiwan, two of which fired eight and six 5-inch rockets, respectively, at the Ujitsu sugar plant, which was misidentified as a Butanol plant, in Ujitsu (now Wuri). The facility was hit by eight of the rockets and suffered some damage. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Two PV-1 aircraft of US Navy squadron VPB-137 from Clark Field in the Philippine Islands conducted a reconnaissance mission over Taiwan, one of which dropped three 250-pound bombs on a pair of bridges over Daito River (now Dadu River) in Shoka (now Changhua); both bombs missed. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 British Admiral Sir Max Horton (Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches) formally accepted the surrender of a token force of eight U-boats at Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The U-boats which had been escorted from Loch Alsh, Scotland, United Kingdom by destroyer HMS Hesperus, Canadian Frigate Thetford Mines, and USS Paine had their torpedoes and two-thirds of their crew removed before their journey up the Foyle. The German crews were mostly very young men. Some were sullen and many were arrogant but the morale among the officers was unbroken. They were convinced that Hitler had died in action and their first question was "When do we start fighting the Russians?" One or two were so convinced that war with Russia was imminent that they had retained their confidential books and secret equipment to be ready when the war faced east. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Rock arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 William Donovan met with the new US President Harry Truman at the White House in Washington DC, United States. Truman only granted him 15 minutes as he did not value the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). 
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14 May 1946 WW2 USS Baya was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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14 May 1947 WW2 Alphonse Pierre Juin was made the Resident-General of French Morocco, replacing Eirik Labonne. 
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14 May 1948 WW2 The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the Israeli Independence War, began. 
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14 May 1948 RELIGIOUS After nineteen centuries of enforced exile, the Jewish people regained their homeland when the State of Israel was formally proclaimed in Tel Aviv. On this same date, the U.S. became the first world nation to recognize the newly-refounded state of Israel.
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14 May 1950 RELIGIOUS American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'To believe is to act as though a thing were so. Merely saying a thing is so is no proof of my believing it.'
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14 May 1974 RELIGIOUS In the Anglican Church in England, the Rev. F. Donald Coggan, 64, was named the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury by Queen Elizabeth II, succeeding former Archbishop Michael Ramsey.
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