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.
1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution
1796 English country doctor Edward Jenner administers the first inoculation against smallpox, using cowpox pus, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
1853 Gail Borden applies for a patent for condensed milk.
1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US
1897 “”Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa is performed for the first time in Philadelphia.
1904 The Olympic Games were held in the United States for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri.
1932 “We Want Beer!” parade in New York
1942 US Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded
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 was signed by the Soviet Union and seven other Communist bloc countries. It finally dissolved in 1991.
1961 A bus carrying black and white civil rights activists is bombed and burned in Alabama.
1973 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
1973 The U.S. space station Skylab is launched.
1980 Department of Health & Human Services begins operation
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.
1998 The Associated Press marked its 150th anniversary.
1999 North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
