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Events on May 14

• 1607 On an island in the James River in the colony of Virginia, 104 British settlers found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America.
• 1643 After the death of his father Louis XIII, the future Sun King Louis XIV ascends the French throne at the age of four. His mother Anne of Austria acts as regent, conducting state affairs for him in the meantime.
• 1796 The English country doctor Edward Jenner administers the first vaccination against smallpox to the eight-year-old James Phipps, using a serum he developed from cowpox viruses.
• 1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins on behalf of US President Thomas Jefferson under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from Camp Dubois, undertaking the first crossing of the North American continent to the Pacific.
• 1900 In Paris, as part of the Exposition Universelle et Internationale world's fair, the II Olympic Games of the modern era begin. The competitions are spread over five months and last until October 28.
• 1953 The Central Committee (ZK) of the SED decides on a ten percent increase in work norms in the German Democratic Republic. The resulting discontent among the working class forms a seed for the popular uprising on June 17.
• 1955 Eight states of the so-called Eastern Bloc sign the Warsaw Treaty in the Polish capital Warsaw during the Cold War, establishing a military alliance in response to the admission of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO.
• 1970 During a prison transfer requested by his lawyer Horst Mahler, Andreas Baader manages to escape with the help of Ulrike Meinhof, Irene Goergens, and Ingrid Schubert, using firearms. The Baader liberation is considered the birth of the far-left terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF).
• 1985 In the Brokdorf decision, the German Federal Constitutional Court deals with freedom of assembly for the first time and sets higher hurdles for demonstration bans by authorities.
• 1993 In Leipzig, Alliance 90 and The Greens merge through an association agreement to form the new party Alliance 90/The Greens.
• 1997 The five globally operating airlines Air Canada, United Airlines, Lufthansa, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, and Thai Airways form the Star Alliance to achieve greater efficiency in their business operations. Additional companies join over time to share in the success.
• 2015 The US post-apocalyptic film Mad Max: Fury Road opens in German cinemas. It is currently considered the commercially most successful installment of this film series.

Born on May 14

• 1855 Eduard von Keyserling, German writer and dramatist of Impressionism
• 1867 Kurt Eisner, German politician and writer
• 1872 Marcel Renault, French automobile designer and racing driver
• 1920 Constanze Manziarly, Austrian dietitian and cook
• 1952 David Byrne, British musician
• 1960 Anne Clark, British singer and songwriter
• 1960 Simonetta Sommaruga, Swiss politician
• 1961 Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
• 1971 Sofia Coppola, US-American film director
• 1994 Marquinhos, Brazilian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „14. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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