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Events from History on May 14

1004 : Henry II the Saint crowned as king of Italy
1027 : Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France
1264 : Baron's War fought in England
1264 : Battle at Lewes: Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III
1509 : Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
1576 : Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
1590 : Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League
1607 : 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va
1638 : Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon
1643 : Louis XIV (4) becomes king of France
1664 : Turkish great K”prl attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
1702 : England & Netherlands declares war on France & Spain
1702 : Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw
1767 : British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1787 : Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution
1796 : 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
1800 : Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premieres in Weimar
1804 : Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
1811 : Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
1832 : Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides," premieres
1835 : Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile
1842 : 1st edition of London Illustrated News
1845 : Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens
1853 : Gail Borden patents her process for condensed milk
1862 : Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
1863 : Battle of Jackson, MS
1864 : Battle of Reseca, GA -Atlanta-
1874 : Harvard beats U of McGill (Montreal) in football, 3-0
1878 : Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1884 : Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
1892 : Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem
1894 : Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
1896 : Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10øF-Climax, Colo)
1897 : Great-Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1903 : President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
1904 : 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
1905 : 2nd official intl soccer match, Neth beats Belg 4-0
1906 : Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising
1908 : 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1910 : Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
1913 : French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
1913 : Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings
1914 : Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
1918 : Indians' Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19)
1918 : Sunday baseball is made legal in Wash DC
1919 : Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta
1920 : Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the
1920 : Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season
1921 : Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
1921 : Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
1928 : John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
1932 : "We Want Beer!" parade in NY
1935 : Griffith Planetarium opens in LA
1935 : LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
1935 : Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement
1938 : English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
1940 : Admiral Furstner departs to England
1940 : Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof
1940 : German breakthrough at Sedan
1940 : Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
1940 : Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
1941 : 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
1942 : US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
1944 : 91 German bombers harass Bristol
1944 : British troops occupy Kohima
1944 : Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stlpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
1945 : Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
1945 : US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
1946 : Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres
1948 : Israel declares independence from under British administration
1948 : Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
1948 : Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
1948 : US grants Israel de facto recognition
1948 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1948 : WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 : "Love Life" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 252 performances
1949 : Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1950 : Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
1951 : "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
1951 : Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC
1951 : Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley," premieres in NYC
1954 : Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
1955 : Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
1955 : US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1955 : Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria,
1957 : "New Girt in Town" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances
1957 : Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in NYC
1960 : "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs
1960 : USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
1960 : Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Pottstown NY
1961 : Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
1962 : Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
1962 : Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
1962 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 : Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
1964 : Underground America Day is 1st observed
1965 : 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
1965 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 : 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
1967 : Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
1967 : Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
1968 : Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
1968 : Czech govt announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek
1968 : RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin
1969 : Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
1969 : Last Chevrolet Corsair built
1970 : Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
1970 : Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
1970 : NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
1970 : RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
1972 : 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton
1973 : Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
1973 : Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV
1973 : Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1973 : US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
1974 : Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
1975 : French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
1975 : US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
1975 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 : Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
1976 : Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1977 : English football international Bobby Moore retires
1977 : KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0
1977 : Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
1978 : "Working" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 25 performances
1980 : "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
1980 : Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks
1980 : Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation
1980 : including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
1981 : NASA launches space vehicle S-192
1982 : Guinea adopts constitution
1983 : Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1984 : 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama
1986 : Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
1986 : Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
1987 : "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
1987 : Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
1988 : "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances
1988 : 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a
1989 : 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
1989 : 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
1989 : Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square
1989 : Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
1989 : Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC
1990 : 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)
1990 : Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
1991 : 42 die in a train collision is Japan
1991 : Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
1991 : Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping &
1991 : World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
1991 : beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
1992 : WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll
1994 : Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617
1994 : FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London
1994 : Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46)
1995 : "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances
1995 : 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins
1995 : Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th
1995 : Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th)
1995 : reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader
1996 : NY Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0
1997 : Baseball's Exec Council suspends NY Yank owner George Steinbrenner
1998 : Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)

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