Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 14

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  Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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  AHS Centaur
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  Statue of Simon de Montfort on the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower in Leicester
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  Skylab
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  Edward Jenner
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  The Talyllyn Railway's locomotive Dolgoch in 1951
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  U.S. Camel Corps at the Drum Barracks in California
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  Stephen Timms

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1509 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces defeated the Venetians at the Battle of Agnadello in present-day Northern Italy.	refimprove
1607 – An expedition led by Edward Maria Wingfield, Christopher Newport, and John Smith established Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America.	refimprove section
1879 – The first group of Indian indentured workers arrived in Fiji on board the Leonidas, forming the nucleus of the Indo-Fijian community.	unreferenced section
1913 – The New York State Legislature accepted the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which at one point was the world's wealthiest charitable foundation.	copyvio, refimprove section
1925 – Mrs Dalloway, one of the best-known novels of English modernist author Virginia Woolf, was first published.	unreferenced section
1955 – Cold War: Eight Eastern Bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty to establish the Warsaw Pact.	lots of inline tags in one section
1961 – In Anniston, Alabama, U.S., a mob of Ku Klux Klansmen attacked the buses of the Freedom Riders, who were riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial groups to challenge local segregation laws.	refimprove section, indiscriminate list
1988 – A drunk driver struck a converted school bus carrying a church youth group on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, U.S., killing 27 people.	refimprove
Sambhaji |b|1657	unreferenced section
Charlotte Auerbach |b|1899	refimprove sections
* 1796 – English physician Edward Jenner inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps, testing his hypothesis that cowpox infection would protect a patient from smallpox.	undercited
* 1973 – The NASA space station Skylab was launched from Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida.	too much uncited
Cheng Yen|b|1937|	Undercited

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• 1804 – Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coast of the United States and back.
• 1856 – Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34 camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps (pictured).
• 1868 – Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
• 1878 – The last witchcraft trial in the United States opened in Salem, Massachusetts.
• 1919 – Sir Harry Hands, the mayor of Cape Town, performed the first public observance of a two-minute silence in remembrance of those killed in World Template:Nowrap.
• 1939 – In Lima, Peru, Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and twenty-one days.
• 1940 – [[World War II|World Template:Nowrap]]: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.
• 1943 – Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.
• 1951 – Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
• 1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.
• 2008 – On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.
• 2010 – British politician Stephen Timms survived a murder attempt by an Islamic extremist during a constituency surgery.
• Born/died this day:Pope John XII |d|964| | William Walcher |d|1080| Hans Joachim von Zieten |b|1699| Fanny Mendelssohn |d|1847| Magnus Hirschfeld |bd|1868; 1935| Lysander Spooner |d|1887|Ants Kurvits |b|1887| Lawrence Weathers |b|1890| George Lucas |b|1944| Lucrezia Bori |d|1960| Cate Blanchett |b|1969| Christian B. Anfinsen |d|1995Marjory Stoneman Douglas |d|1998

May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias (Catholicism) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1264 – Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes (monument pictured) and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
• 1857 – Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
• 1931 – Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
• 1948 – David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at a building later called Independence Hall in Tel Aviv.