May 14th, 1939

Born on May 14th, 1939

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What happened on May 14th, 1939?

May 14th, 1939

Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina

May 14th, 1939

In Lima, Peru, Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and twenty-one days.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima

What else happened on May 14th?

May 14th, 2008

On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.

May 14th, 1980

Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.

May 14th, 1951

Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.

May 14th, 1948

David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall in Tel Aviv.

May 14th, 1943

Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.

May 14th, 1940

World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.

May 14th, 1931

Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.

May 14th, 1878

The last witchcraft trial in the United States opened in Salem, Massachusetts.

May 14th, 1868

Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.

May 14th, 1863

American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.

May 14th, 1857

Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma.

May 14th, 1856

Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34 camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps (pictured).

May 14th, 1804

Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coast of the United States and back.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 14th

Born on May 14th, 1939

84

Veruschka von Lehndorff

German model, actress and performance artist

*May 14th, 1939, Königsberg

77

Rupert Neudeck

German journalist and human rights activist

*May 14th, 1939, Gdańsk †May 31st, 2016, Siegburg

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Who's birthday is on May 14th?

85

Arve Opsahl

Norwegian actor

*May 14th, 1921, Christiania †April 29th, 2007, Oslo

74

Sverre Årnes

Norwegian writer

*May 14th, 1949, Surnadal Municipality

75

Troy Shondell

American singer (1940-2016)

*May 14th, 1940, Fort Wayne †January 7th, 2016, Picayune

79

George Lucas

American filmmaker (born 1944)

*May 14th, 1944, Modesto

57

Irina Serova

Badminton player

*May 14th, 1966, Soviet Union

39

Mark Zuckerberg

American internet entrepreneur

*May 14th, 1984, White Plains

85

Waheeda Rehman

Indian actress

*May 14th, 1938, Chengalpattu

75

John Forgeham

British actor (1941-2017)

*May 14th, 1941, Kidderminster †March 10th, 2017, Worthing

90

Siân Phillips

British actress (1933-)

*May 14th, 1933, Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen

67

Franz-Georg Rössler

German Esperantist

*May 14th, 1949, Ruppertsberg †March 17th, 2017, Dudenhofen

62

Tim Roth

English actor (born 1961)

*May 14th, 1961, Dulwich

83

Chay Blyth

British yacht racer and ocean rower

*May 14th, 1940, Hawick

70

Norodom Sihamoni

King of Cambodia

*May 14th, 1953, Phnom Penh

54

Cate Blanchett

Australian actor (born 1969)

*May 14th, 1969, Melbourne

63

Simonetta Sommaruga

Politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council

*May 14th, 1960, Zug

37

Bobby Darin

American singer and actor (1936–1973)

*May 14th, 1936, The Bronx †December 20th, 1973, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

71

Robert Zemeckis

American filmmaker (born 1952)

*May 14th, 1952, Chicago

74

Klaus-Peter Thaler

German racing cyclist

*May 14th, 1949, Netphen

77

Tommy Lawrence

Scottish footballer (1940-2018)

*May 14th, 1940, Dailly †January 9th, 2018, Warrington

78

Yochanan Vollach

Israeli footballer

*May 14th, 1945, Kiryat Bialik

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Born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

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