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Historical events & facts — May 14
What happened on May 14?
On May 14, 1948, Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion proclaimed in Tel Aviv the birth of the State of Israel, eleven minutes before the British mandate over Palestine expired. The US recognised the new state eleven minutes later. The following day, five Arab armies invaded Israel. The war of independence that followed established the frontiers of the new state and created the Palestinian refugee problem.
On May 14, 1607, the first permanent English settlers in North America established the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia — the first successful permanent English settlement on the continent. The colony, financed by the Virginia Company of London, endured years of starvation and conflict with Native peoples before stabilising. It was the embryo of what would become the first American state.
On May 14, 1796, English physician Edward Jenner performed the first vaccination in history, inoculating eight-year-old James Phipps with material from the pustules of a milkmaid infected with cowpox. Phipps did not develop smallpox when exposed to it. Jenner's experiment gave birth to vaccinology — the medical branch that has saved the most lives in human history.
Notable birthdays — May 14
Famous people born on May 14
Albrecht Thaer
Albrecht Daniel Thaer was a German agronomist and a supporter of the humus theory for plant nutrition.
Pierre Victor Auger
Pierre Victor Auger was a French physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. He is famous for being one of the discoverers of the Auger effect, named after him.
Edgar Wind
Edgar Wind was a British interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. He was a member of the school of art historians associated with Aby Warburg and the Warburg Institute as well as the first Professor of art history at Oxford University.
William Tutte
William Thomas Tutte was an English and Canadian code breaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within the Wehrmacht High Command.
Oona O'Neill
Oona O'Neill, Lady Chaplin was a British actress, the daughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth and last wife of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
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