TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Monday, May 14, the 134th day of 2018. There are 231 days left in the year.

1607 Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.

1608 The Protestant Union is founded.

1610 Henry IV of France is assassinated, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.

1787 In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.

1811 Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor

1870 The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

1913 Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $ 100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

1925 Virginia Woolf ’ s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

1935 The 1935 Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.

1939 Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

1940 World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.

1948 Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab– Israeli War.

1951 Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.

1955 Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.

1961 Civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is firebombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.

1970 Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction.

1973 Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.

1988 Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty- seven die in the crash.

2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moohyun.