^B{^#!16!14 May^N! Feast day of St Mary Mazzarello, St Pontius of Cimiez, St Carthage the Younger, St Erembert, St Matthias, St Gemma Galgani, and St Michael Garico∩ts.
^B{1080^B} Walcher, Bishop of Durham and Earl of Northumberland was murdered; William (the Conqueror) consequently ravaged the area; he also invaded Scotland and built the castle at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. ^B{1264^B} The English barons under Simon de Montfort defeated Henry III at the Battle of Lewes. ^B{1147^B} Conrad and the German crusaders departed from Regensburg. ^B{1897 ^B}By treaty with Ethiopia Britain abandoned certain claims in Somaliland but Emperor Menelek refused to surrender his claims to lands near the Nile. ^B{1921^B} 29 Fascists returned in Italian elections. ^B{1946^B} Anti-Jewish pogrom in Kielce, Poland. ^B{1948^B} As the British mandate in Palestine came to an end, a Jewish provisional government was formed in Israel with Chaim Weizmann as president and David Ben-Gurion as premier.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}MarguΘrite de Valois, queen of Navarre, ^B{1553^B}; Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German physicist, the first to use mercury in thermometers, ^B{1686^B}; Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer, ^B{1771^B}; Squire Bancroft, English actor, ^B{1841^B}; Hall Caine, English novelist, ^B{1853^B}; Otto Klemperer, German conductor, ^B{1885^B}; Hastings Banda, president of Malawi, ^B{1905^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Jean Grolier, French diplomat and bibliophile, ^B{1565^B}; Henry IV of France, assassinated, ^B{1610^B}; Daniel Auber, French composer, ^B{1871^B}; August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, ^B{1912^B}; Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist, ^B{1925^B}; Jean Rhys, British novelist, ^B{1979^B}.
