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 135th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 1, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,715,644,800 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 ‘hectatriacontapentagon’ 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 260 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 4,162 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 14 Historical Events
- 1607 –Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1787 –In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
- 1868 –Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
- 1870 –The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
- 1925 –Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
- 1939 –Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
- 1940 –World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 1951 –Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
- 1963 –Kuwait joins the United Nations.
Who were born on May 14?
- 1316 –Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
- 1814 –Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
- 1832 –Charles Peace, unusual English criminal
- 1900 –Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
- 1917 –Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1925 –Oona O'Neill, widow of Charlie Chaplin (d. 1991)
- 1929 –Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1973 –Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
- 1984 –Luke Gregerson, American baseball player
- 1987 –Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
Who died on May 14?
- 1936 –Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)
- 1957 –Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
- 1962 –Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
- 1968 –Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
- 1970 –Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
- 1973 –Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist and poet (b. 1905)
- 1987 –Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian writer (b. 1914)
- 1992 –Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
- 1995 –Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
- 2003 –Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
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