May 14

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[edit] Events

• 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
• 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.
• 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
• 1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
• 1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany.
• 1948 - Israel declared to be an independent state
• 1955 - Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
• 1961 - White mob attacks Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama
• 1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in West Germany.

[edit] Births

• 1922 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
• 1928 - Che Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)

[edit] Deaths

• 1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
• 1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)