What are the important events that happened on May 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 14 is the 134th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 1, 2022 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,652,486,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatriacontatetragon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 253 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 3,431 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 14 Historical Events
- 1610 –Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
- 1643 –Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- 1787 –In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
- 1868 –Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
- 1925 –Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
- 1943 –A Japanese submarine sinks Ship AHS off the coast of Queensland.
- 1955 –Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- 1961 –American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
- 1963 –Kuwait joins the United Nations.
- 1970 –The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
Who were born on May 14?
- 1878 –James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
- 1881 –G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
- 1899 –Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
- 1925 –Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
- 1925 –Oona O'Neill, widow of Charlie Chaplin (d. 1991)
- 1927 –Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
- 1929 –Henry McGee, British actor, straight man to Benny Hill (d. 2006)
- 1942 –Prentis Hancock, British actor
- 1961 –Tim Roth, English actor
- 1984 –Michael Rensing, German footballer
Who died on May 14?
- 1574 –Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
- 1688 –Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
- 1943 –Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
- 1969 –Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
- 1980 –Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
- 1987 –Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
- 1997 –Harry Blackstone, Jr., American stage magician (b. 1934)
- 2003 –Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
- 2003 –Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
- 2006 –Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
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