What Happened on May 14

What Happened on May 14

Discover what happened on May 14 with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.

On May 14, 1607, English colonists established the Jamestown settlement..

On May 14, 1607, English colonists established the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown. Unknown to them, they had landed amidst the worst drought in eastern North America in 800 years. — May 14th, 1686 was the birthday of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who invented the thermometer. — May 14, 1853: Land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor Gail Borden patented his process for condensed milk. — And on May 14th, 1948, in T…

What Happened Today May 14, 2025

1/ Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure provider, has announced support for the new AMD EPYC 4005 Series processors, becoming one of the first cloud platforms to offer them. Designed for growing businesses and hosted IT providers, the EPYC 4005 CPUs deliver enterprise-grade performance, energy efficiency, and affordability. [Read More] 2/ Chainguard has announced Chainguard Libraries for Python, a secure index of Python…

May 14 is an important day in Mexico's ephemerides and the world, as it is celebrated the Day of Migratory Birds and the birthday of Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook and now Meta; however, there are so many other ephemerides that happened this day. May 14 is the 134th (hundred and thirty-fourth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and 135th in the bisiest years. What is celebrated on May 14th? - Day of Migratory Birds What are the ephem…

The current calendar page for May 14, 2025Name dayChristianHistorical data1970 - Ulrike Meinhof and three other members of the left-wing terrorist Red Army faction (RAF) free Andreas Baader from detention in Berlin when he was allowed to research under surveillance in the Central Institute for Social Questions.1955 - The Eastern European states and the GDR founded the Warsaw Pact in Warsaw as a political and military counterpart to NATO.1940 - T…

Every 14th of May are celebrated and commemorated dates that marked a before and after both in Argentina and in the world. 1879 - ARBITRAL FALLO. By arbitration of the president of the United States Rutherford Hayes, Argentina cedes to Paraguay the city of Western Villa and neighboring territories in the Paraguayan Chaco, whose sovereignty remained in dispute after the war of the Triple Alliance. The city was renamed Villa Hayes in honor of the …