May 14

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 14. From 1900 until now. May 14 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Che Guevara (1928), Mark Zuckerberg (1984) and Cate Blanchett (1969). Several movies were released around May 14 over the years, such as The Shining in 1980 directed by Stanley Kubrick and Braveheart in 1995 directed by Mel Gibson.
But much more happened on May 14 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

St. Carthach the Younger
DubsDay in Dublin Ireland (14th of May in 2006).
Mother's Day in various countries (second Sunday of May in 2006).
Israel - Yom Ha'atzma'ut, or Israeli Independence Day. The observed date of this national holiday is determined by the Jewish Calendar.
Paraguay - Flag Day.
St. Maria Dominic Mazzarello
St. Just
St. Engelmer
St. Vincent of Lerins
St. Victor and Corona
St. Boniface of Tarsus
St. Michael Garicoits
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: St. Matthias (Apostle)
St. Engelmund
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Events

2019 Saudi Arabia–Yemen relations, Yemeni Crisis (2011–present), Gulf of Oman incident: Two Saudi Aramco oil pumping stations are attacked in an apparent drone strike according to Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry. The stations are linked to a pipeline transporting oil from the eastern fields to the western coast port of Yanbu on the Red Sea. (Associated Press) (Bloomberg)
2018 Surabaya bombings: An Indonesian family believed to be connected to the terrorist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah attacks police headquarters in Surabaya. The attack kills all four perpetrators and injures the perpetrator's daughter, six civilians, and four police officers. (ABC News)
2017 Yemeni Civil War: According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, a cholera outbreak has since April 27 killed at least 115 people and left another 8,500 ill across Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): At least two people are killed and 12 injured after a suicide bomb attack on a police training center in Helmand Province. (Stars and Stripes)
2015 Blues legend B.B. King dies at the age of 89. (BBC)
2014 Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen:: Seven Yemeni Army soldiers and 16 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula militants are killed in fighting near the town of Azan in Shabwa province. (AP via Daily Mail)
2013 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: The Taliban kills four US soldiers in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. (BBC)
2012 Syrian uprising: At least 30 people die in a battle between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters in the town of Rastan. Reportedly, 23 of the dead are government soldiers. (''Daily Telegraph'')
2011 2011 Libyan civil war:
2010 Rare Coin Wholesalers of California sells a USA 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar coin graded SP-66 PCGS to Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation of California for US$7.85 million. The price is a new world record for a single US coin.
2009 Chrysler eliminates 789 car dealerships in the US.
2008 The U.S. government lists polar bears as a threatened species under its Endangered Species Act because of the effects of global warming.
2007 A meteor likely causes a 2.1-magnitude earthquake in Hubbardton, Vermont, USA.
2006 Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
2005 The former USS America, a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2004 Two US Marines are sentenced to prison for electrocuting an Iraqi prisoner a month earlier.
2003 DARPA's Information Processing Technology Office solicits bids for the LifeLog project, an extremely ambitious effort to create a massive searchable computer database, ampquotan ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and interactions with the worldnbsp... The objectivenbsp... is to be able to trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationshipsampquot.,
1998 Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)
1997 The Star Alliance is formed between Air Canada, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines System, Thai Airways International and United Airlines.
1996 New York Yankees pitcher Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0.
1995 My Thing of Love closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances
1994 Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46)
1993 William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at age 85.
1992 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll.
1991 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
1990 Dow Jones Average hits a record 2,821.53
1989 Final TV episode of Family Ties airs
1988 Mail closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances
1987 Little Shop of Horrors is released in Germany
1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Frank's complete diary.
1984 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama wins.
1983 She Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby hits #5
1982 Hugh Beaumont, American actor (Ward - Leave it to Beaver), dies at age 73 (born 1909).
1981 35th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2.
1980 Musical Chairs opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
1978 Working opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 25 performances
1977 Kansas City Royals' Jim Colborn no-hits the Texas Rangers, 6-0.
1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
1975 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia.
1974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, six killed.
1973 Skylab launched, the first Space Station.
1972 In Willie Mays' first game as a New York Mets player, his homer beats the San Francisco Giants, 5-4.
1970 New York City local newspaper Our Town begins publishing
1969 Last Chevrolet Corvair car built.
1968 RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to three years in West Berlin.
1967 Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
1966 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1964 Underground America Day is first observed.
1963 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations.
1962 Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
1961 Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama, USA.
1960 At the Drop of a Hat closes at John Golden NYC after 216 performances
1957 New Girt in Town opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 432 performances
1955 US performs nuclear test in Pacific Ocean.
1954 Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months.
1951 Flahooley opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
1950 Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
1949 Love Life closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 252 performances
1948 US grants Israel de facto recognition
1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.
1944 British troops occupy Kohima.
1943 A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded.
1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested.
1940 Admiral Furstner departs to England
1939 Lina Medina, a 5-year old Peruvian girl, gives birth to a baby boy, becoming the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.
1938 English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
1935 Griffith Planetarium opens in LA
1932 We Want Beer! parade in New York
1929 Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg
1927 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06.
1925 Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
1919 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta.
1918 Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington DC.
1914 Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation.
1913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands.
1910 Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins.
1906 Flagpole at the Chicago White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising.
1904 1st Olympics in US are held (St. Louis)
1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco.
1900 Second Boer War: The British Army relieves the Siege of Mafeking.
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