Tuesday, May 14, 2013

May 14 in history


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MAY 13      INDEX      MAY 15
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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.

1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.

1607 – English colonists establish "James Fort." It would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas.

1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.

1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated, 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 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.

1787 – In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.

1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.

1804 – The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest departs from Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.

1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor

1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.

1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.

1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa 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 laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the  Leonidas.

1889 – The children's charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.

1897 – The Stars and Stripes Forever is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia.

1908: The first passenger flight in an airplane takes place.

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.

1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

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.

1939 – Lina Medina becomes the 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 Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.

1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, makes its first flight.

1943 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.

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.

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.

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.

1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.

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 in West Germany.

1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

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.

1998: In television history, NBC airs Seinfeld's final 2-part episode "The Finale" to 76.3M viewers. 30 second commercials are prices at $2M.

2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.

2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.

2013 – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Monica, Widow.     Double.
Commemoration of St. Boniface, Martyr.


Contemporary Western

Engelmund of Velsen
Matthias the Apostle
Michael Garicoïts
Mo Chutu of Lismore
Victor and Corona


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox


Saints

Martyr Maximus, under Decius (250)
Martyr Isidore of Chios (251)
Saints Alexander, Barbaras, and Acolythus (Acolouthus), martyred at the
      Church of St Irene (Holy Peace), near the sea in Constantinople
Martyrs Aristotle and Leandros
Hieromartyr Therapont, Bishop of Cyprus (3rd c.)
Saint Boniface of Tarsus, martyr (307)
Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (5th c.)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Martyrs Justa, Justina and Henedina, in Sardinia (c. 130)
Saint Pontius of Cimiez (Pons de Cimiez), martyred in Cimella (Cimiez) near
      Nice, whose relics gave his name to the town of Saint-Pons. (c. 258)
Saint Aprunculus (Apruncule), first bishop of Langres, later of Clermont, Gaul (c. 488)
Saint Boniface, Bishop of Ferentino in Tuscany (6th c.)
Saint Carthage (Carthach Mochuda) the Younger, founder and first abbot of Lismore (637)
Saint Erembert, Bishop of Toulouse (657)
Saint Tuto (Totto), monk and Abbot of St Emmeram in Regensburg in Germany,
      where he later became bishop (930)
Saint Hallvard, Of the royal family of Norway, Patron-saint of Oslo, martyr (1043)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Saint Nicetas, Bishop of Novgorod and recluse of the Kiev Caves (1108)[
Patriarch Leontius II of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (1190)
Saint Isidore of Rostov, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker (1474)
New Martyr Mark of Crete, at Smyrna (1643)
New Martyr John of Bulgaria (Raiko-John of Shumena), the goldsmith (1802)
Saint Andrew, abbot of Raphael (Tobolsk) (1820)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyr Peter Rozhdestvin, Priest (1939)

Other commemorations

Commemoration of the martyrdom by the Poles (1609), of:
      Abbot Anthony with 40 monks and 1,000 laymen of the St. Paisius
            of Uglich Monastery,
      Abbot Daniel with 30 monks and 200 laymen of the St. Nicholas
            Monastery (Kostroma)
Commemoration of Victor Chornayiv, Archimandrite of the Annunciation
      Monastery at Nizhyn (1761)
Synaxis of the Yaroslavsk (Pechersk) Icon of the Mother of God (1823)
First uncovering of the relics (1846) of Saint Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh,
      Wonderworker of Zadonsk (1783)




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