TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, MAY 14, 2018

On this day in history:

1264 - King Henry III was captured by his brother in law Simon deMontfort at the Battle of Lewes in France.

1509 - In the Battle of Agnadello, French defeated Venitians in Northern Italy. 1607 - An expedition led by Captain Christopher Newport went ashore at Jamestown, Virginia. The group had arrived at the location the day before. This became the first permanent English colony in America.

1610 - French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) was assassinated by a fanatical monk, François Ravillac. 1643 - Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. 1796 - The first smallpox vaccination was given by Edward Jenner.

1811 - Paraguay gained independence from Spain. 1855 - Australia’s first branch of the Royal Mint (London) commences operations in Sydney.

1879 - Thomas Edison incorporated the Edison Telephone Company of Europe. 1935 - The Philippines ratified an independence agreement. 1940 - The Netherlands surrendered to Nazi Germany. 1942 - The British, while retreating from Burma, reached India.

1943 - Australian Hospital Ship Centaur is sunk by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine. 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, a Easter European mutual-defence treaty, was signed in Poland by eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union. 1996 - A tornado hit 80 villages in northern Bangladesh. More than 440 people were killed.

1998 - The final episode of the TV series “Seinfeld” aired after nine years.

2004 - The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.

2012 - Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.