May 14th Trivia

• 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the effective ruler of England.
• 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.
• 1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
• 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
• 1925 – Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
• 1969 – Cate Blanchett, actress, is born in Melbourne, Australia.
• 1973 – Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
• 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook is born in White Plains, NY
• 1984 – The #1 song on the Hot 100 Billboard was, “Hello,” by  Lionel Richie.
• 1990 – The #1 movie was, “Bird on a Wire,” starring Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn and David Carradine..
• 2016 – The world’s oldest person, Susannah Mushatt Jones, died  in New York at the age of 116.
• 2017 – North Korea test-fired another ballistic missile Sunday in defiance of South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, who was sworn in Wednesday.
• 2018 – Dozens of people die  in Gaza fence protest as U.S. moves embassy to Jerusalem.
• 2019 – Tim Conway, star of the Carol Burnett Show,  passes away. 
• 2020 – Phyllis George, Former CBS Sportscaster and Miss America, Dies at 70 from Leukemia.

Sources: Wiki, The Week