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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 14 May.

1. 1st English NA settlement (Jamestown - Va)
2. Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
3. Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk
4. Harvard & McGill play 1st game of American football
5. President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
6. LA's Griffith Planetarium opens - 3rd in US
7. US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) founded
8. PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel
9. Warsaw Pact formed
10. Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
11. US launches space station Skylab 1
12. Bucky Dent hits an inside the park HR - Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded - Yanks win 16-3
13. Soyuz 40 is launched - 1st Rumanian in space
14. Oilers 1-Isles 5 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead

These famous people were born on 14 May.

1. 1316 - Charles IV, king of Bohemia (1346-78), emperor (1355-78)
2. 1686 - Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, physicist (or 0524)
3. 1771 - Robert Owen, English fActory owner, socialist
4. 1787 - Thomas Gainsborough, English landscape, portrait painter (Blue Boy)
5. 1885 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor
6. 1919 - Heloise, and her helpful hints
7. 1925 - Patrice Munsel, in Spokane Wash
8. 1944 - George Lucas, skywalker
9. 1946 - Robert Jarvik, invented Jarvik 7 artificial heart
10. 1952 - David Byrne, in England, rocker