What are the important events that happened on May 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 14 is the 134th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 1, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 485,328 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatriacontatetragon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 279 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,527 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 14 Historical Events
- 1483 –Coronation of Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable).
- 1608 –The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
- 1836 –The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
- 1870 –The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
- 1925 –Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 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.
- 1963 –Kuwait joins the United Nations.
- 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. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
Who were born on May 14?
- 1900 –Walter Rehberg, Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
- 1928 –Will “Dub” Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
- 1936 –Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1954 –Jens Sparschuh, German writer
- 1959 –Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1961 –Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
- 1967 –Tony Siragusa, American football player
- 1977 –Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
- 1979 –Edwige Lawson-Wade, French Basketball player
- 1987 –Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
Who died on May 14?
- 964 –Pope John XII
- 1669 –Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
- 1860 –Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
- 1893 –Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
- 1959 –Sidney Bechet, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1897)
- 1980 –Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
- 1987 –Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian writer (b. 1914)
- 1993 –Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
- 1998 –Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
- 2000 –Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
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