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On May 14
1643 Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1787 Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1811 Paraguay gained independence from Spain.
1897 "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled.
1897 Guglielmo Marconi made the first communication by wireless telegraph.
1904 For the first time Olympic games were held in the U.S in St. Louis.
1940 The Netherlands surrendered to Nazi Germany.
1948 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end.
1955 The Warsaw Pact, an Eastern European mutual-defense treaty, was signed in Poland by eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union.
1961 A bus carrying Freedom Riders was bombed and burned in Alabama.
1973 Skylab One was launched as the first U.S. manned space station.
1975 U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia. About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.
1980 U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.
1992 Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S. Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill to aid the people of the former Soviet Union.
1998 The TV series "Seinfeld" signed off after nine years on NBC.
1999 North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War.
1999 Jess Marlow received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


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