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Birthday May 14, 1316 Charles IV, king of Bohemia (1346-78), emperor (1355-78) |
Birthday May 14, 1686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, physicist (or 0524) |
Birthday May 14, 1771 Robert Owen, English fActory owner, socialist |
Birthday May 14, 1787 Thomas Gainsborough, English landscape, portrait painter (Blue Boy) |
Birthday May 14, 1885 Otto Klemperer, German conductor |
Birthday May 14, 1919 Heloise, and her helpful hints |
Birthday May 14, 1925 Patrice Munsel, in Spokane Wash |
Birthday May 14, 1936 Bobby Darin is born |
Birthday May 14, 1944 George Lucas, skywalker |
Birthday May 14, 1946 Robert Jarvik, invented Jarvik 7 artificial heart |
Birthday May 14, 1952 David Byrne, in England, rocker |
History May 14, 1607 1st English NA settlement (Jamestown - Va) |
History May 14, 1787 Constitutional Convention delegates begin to assemble |
History May 14, 1796 Jenner tests smallpox vaccine |
History May 14, 1811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day) |
History May 14, 1842 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, publishes his popular volume Poems |
History May 14, 1853 Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk |
History May 14, 1861 William Fetterman joins the U.S. Army |
History May 14, 1864 The Battle of Resaca, Georgia, begins |
History May 14, 1874 Harvard & McGill play 1st game of American football |
History May 14, 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF |
History May 14, 1904 First American Olympiad |
History May 14, 1913 Scoreless inning streak ends |
History May 14, 1916 London Times article sparks Shells Crisis |
History May 14, 1935 LA's Griffith Planetarium opens - 3rd in US |
History May 14, 1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) founded |
History May 14, 1943 United States and Britain plan Operation Pointblank |
History May 14, 1948 A brutal murder begins an unusual investigation |
History May 14, 1948 PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel |
History May 14, 1948 State of Israel proclaimed |
History May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact formed |
History May 14, 1955 The Warsaw Pact is formed |
History May 14, 1967 Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller |
History May 14, 1969 President Nixon responds to National Liberation Front proposal |
History May 14, 1970 South Vietnamese sustain second highest casualties of war |
History May 14, 1973 US launches space station Skylab 1 |
History May 14, 1973 Skylab launched |
History May 14, 1980 Bucky Dent hits an inside the park HR - Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded - Yanks win 16-3 |
History May 14, 1981 Soyuz 40 is launched - 1st Rumanian in space |
History May 14, 1983 Oilers 1-Isles 5 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead |
History May 14, 1991 Two trains crash in Japan |
History May 14, 1998 Frank Sinatra dies |
History May 14, 1999 Clinton apologizes to Chinese leader for embassy bombing |
History May 14, 2007 DaimlerChrysler sells most of Chrysler for $7.4 billion |