Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 14

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 * 1804 – Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coast of the United States and back.
 * 1856 – Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34 camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps (pictured).
 * 1868 – Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
 * 1878 – The last witchcraft trial in the United States opened in Salem, Massachusetts.
 * 1919 – Sir Harry Hands, the mayor of Cape Town, performed the first public observance of a two-minute silence in remembrance of those killed in World War I.
 * 1939 – In Lima, Peru, Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and twenty-one days.
 * 1940 – World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.
 * 1943 – Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.
 * 1951 – Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
 * 1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.
 * 2008 – On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.
 * Born/died this day:Pope John XII |d|964| | William Walcher |d|1080| Hans Joachim von Zieten |b|1699| Fanny Mendelssohn |d|1847| Magnus Hirschfeld |bd|1868; 1935| Lysander Spooner |d|1887|Ants Kurvits |b|1887| Lawrence Weathers |b|1890| George Lucas |b|1944| Lucrezia Bori |d|1960| Cate Blanchett |b|1969|  Christian B. Anfinsen |d|1995Marjory Stoneman Douglas |d|1998

May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias (Catholicism); Independence Day in Israel (2024)


 * 1264 – Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes (monument pictured) and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
 * 1857 – Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma.
 * 1863 – American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
 * 1931 – Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
 * 1948 – David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall in Tel Aviv.