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On this day May 14

2012


Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.

2004


The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.

1988


Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.

1973


Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

1970


Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of The Red Army Faction.

1961


Civil Rights Movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.

1955


Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.

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.

1948


Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

1943


World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.

1940


World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.

1940


World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.

1939


Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

1935


The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.

1931


Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.

1925


Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

1913


Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

1879


The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.

1878


The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.

1870


The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

1868


Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.

1863


American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.

1836


The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.

1811


Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor

1804


The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.

1800


The process of the U.S. Government moving the United States capital city from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. begins.

1796


Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.

1787


In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.

1747


War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.

1643


Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

1610


Henry IV of France is assassinated, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.

1608


The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.

1607


Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.

1509


Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.

1264


Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.

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