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May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias (Catholicism); Independence Day in Israel (2024)

Monument to the Battle of Lewes

1264 – Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes (monument pictured) and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1857 – Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma.
1863 – American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
1931 – Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1948 – David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall in Tel Aviv.

Fanny Imlay (b. 1794)
Mary Seacole (d. 1881)
Miranda Cosgrove (b. 1993)
Taruni Sachdev (b. 1998; d. 2012)

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