TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MAY 14
1264 King Henry III is captured by his brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, at the Battle of Lewes.
1610 French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) is assassinated by François Ravaillac, a fanatical monk.
1643 Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1796 English country doctor Edward Jenner administers the first inoculation against smallpox, using cowpox pus, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire
1804 Explorer William Clark sets off from St. Louis, Missouri.
1853 Gail Borden applies for a patent for condensed milk.
1897 “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa is performed for the first time in Philadelphia.
1942 FDR has stated that all domestic air travel will be placed on a full wartime basis with the army operating or controlling the nations fleet of over 500 transport planes to help in the war effort.
1948 British rule in Palestine came to an end as The Jewish National Council proclaimed the State of Israel. Within hours, Israel was under attack from Arab forces.
1955 The Warsaw Pact is established. Eight communist bloc countries signed the mutual defense treaty, which played an important role during the Cold War as an antagonist of NATO.
1959 Federal Agents carried out a series of raids across the nation as part of a nationwide crackdown on illegal lotteries and gambling
1961 A bus carrying black and white civil rights activists is bombed and burned in Alabama.
1973 The U.S. space station Skylab is launched.
1988 In the Andean village of Cayara, Peru’s military was involved in a massacre of at least 26 peasants.
1991 In South Africa, Winnie Mandela is sentenced to six years in prison for her part in the kidnapping and beating of three black youths and the death of a fourth.
1992 Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S. Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill to aid the people of the former Soviet Union.
1999 North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War
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