What is the significance of the day - May 14?

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1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England. 1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable"). 1509 - Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians. 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony. 1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen. 1610 - Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne. 1643 - Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. 1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre. 1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River. 1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain. 1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain. 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place. 1868 - Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former 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. 1879 - The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas. 1889 - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London. 1913 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller. 1925 - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published. 1927 - Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. 1927 - The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity. 1929 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton. 1931 - Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration. 1935 - The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement. 1935 - Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939. 1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five. 1940 - World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe. 1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany. 1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine. 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. 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. 1961 - Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix. 1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany. 1973 - Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket. 1978 - First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. 1986 - Pride of Baltimore lost at sea. 1988 - Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27. 1995 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama. 1998 - The final episode of Seinfeld airs on NBC. 2002 - Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia. 2004 - The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun. 2004 - The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen. 2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood. 2005 - The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.