24 Ordibehesht 1404

Events

• 1608 (418 years ago) The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states.
• 1800 (226 years ago) The 6th United States Congress recesses, and the process of moving the Federal government of the United States from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., begins the following day.
• 1811 (215 years ago) Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor.
• 1857 (169 years ago) Mindon Min is crowned as King of Burma in Mandalay, Burma.
• 1879 (147 years ago) The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
• 1915 (111 years ago) The May 14 Revolt takes place in Lisbon, Portugal.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands, is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire, killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center.
• 1951 (75 years ago) 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.

Births

• 1316 (710 years ago) Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1378)
• 1727 (299 years ago) Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (died 1788)
• 1771 (255 years ago) Robert Owen, Welsh businessman and social reformer (died 1858)
• 1922 (104 years ago) Franjo Tuđman, Croatian historian and politician, 1st President of Croatia (died 1999)
• 1944 (82 years ago) George Lucas, American director, producer, and screenwriter, founded Lucasfilm
• 1952 (74 years ago) Robert Zemeckis, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 (57 years ago) Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
• 1984 (42 years ago) Mark Zuckerberg, American computer programmer and businessman, co-founder of Facebook

Deaths

• 964 (1062 years ago) Pope John XII,
• 1610 (416 years ago) Henry IV of France,
• 1643 (383 years ago) Louis XIII of France,
• 1912 (114 years ago) August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (born 1849)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Emma Goldman, Lithuanian author and activist (born 1869)
• 1987 (39 years ago) Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (born 1918)
• 1998 (28 years ago) Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (born 1915)
• 2015 (11 years ago) B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1925)

All 352 events, births and deaths of May 14