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Day Of The Week: May 14
May 14, 2025 is the 134th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 14
- 1607 –Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1608 –The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
- 1811 –Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
- 1868 –Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends 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.
- 1929 –Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
- 1935 –The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
- 1940 –The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight.
- 1955 –Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- 1970 –The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
Who were born on May 14?
- 1699 –Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
- 1727 –Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788)
- 1869 –Arthur Rostron, Captain of the Titanic (d. 1940)
- 1899 –Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
- 1928 –Brian Macdonald, Canadian dancer
- 1936 –Charlie Gracie, American singer
- 1943 –Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman’s Hermits) (d. 1994)
- 1962 –Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult)
- 1964 –Eric Peterson, American musician (Testament)
- 1973 –Julian White, English rugby player
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