After Promising No New Wars During 2024 Campaign, Trump Has Instead Become a War Pig Thirsting For More Power & More Blood

In 2024, MAGA applauded when Trump promised no new wars.  

Not even four full months in 2026, Trump has threatened and/or attacked numerous countries. It appears that we did not learn the simple lesson of the perils of fighting multiple wars at once, as we did not long ago simultaneously in Afghanistan and Iraq.

From the candidate for peace, as Stephen Miller suggested, to now being an aggressive war pig. He attacked Venezuela, then threatened that Colombia and Cuba might be next. Then he seemed ready to take over Greenland militarily before backing off. Then he attacked Iran, without bothering to justify his actions to the American people or the world community. He had that ridiculous, frankly blasphemous Easter Sunday post, promising to end a civilization that night and ending the message with 'Praise be to Allah!", seemingly mocking two major religions in this one post. Then he posted images depicting himself as Jesus the Healer. Recently he started up again with talk of taking over Greenland. And now, once again, he seems to be ready to attack Cuba. Let's not forget that he just set into motion a measure that young men will be automatically registered for the draft, although this could be challenged by the Supreme Court. This man is completely and dangerously out of control. So many broken promises. We didn't get lower gas prices or lower grocery prices. Inflation is higher than ever. The United States was recently declared insolvent by Trump's own Treasury Department. He never released the Epstein Files. He never stopped the war in Ukraine, let alone within 24 hours. Now, after launching economic warfare against almost the entire world, all at once, we apparently are waging war around the world with multiple wars, all at once. And you wonder why so much of the world hates and distrusts the United States now?  Is this the "winning" that he promised? 

Thank you, Trump supporters. He was always dangerously unpredictable. But you guys trusted him with all of this power, and he clearly and obviously is abusing it. To put it another way, you imposed a dangerously unstable, ridiculous narcissist on the rest of the country, and indeed, on the rest of the world. This country has become a laughing stock, as well as a source of distrust, because of this one man, and the movement he leads and represents. The rest of the world is working together more and more specifically to not to have to deal with Trump's United States. As a modern nation, we are more isolated than ever before. This is ALL on you, and this will not be forgotten anytime soon.    

Trump says a ‘New Dawn for Cuba' is coming ‘very soon' "And very soon, this great strength will also bring about a day 70 years in waiting," he said. By NBC6 • Published 44 minutes ago • Updated 44 minutes ago

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/cuba/trump-says-a-new-dawn-for-cuba-is-coming-very-soon/3797577/

Trump says a new dawn for Cuba is coming very soon – NBC 6 South Florida

May 15th: This Day in History

 

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

On this day in 756, Abd-al-Rahman I became the Emir of Cordova, Spain. In 884 on this day, Marinus I ended his reign as Catholic Pope. Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy on this day in 1004. Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden laid the cornerstone for Koln Cathedral on this day in 1248. In 1252 on this day, Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorized, but also limited, the torture of heretics during the Medieval Inquisition. On this day in 1492 during the Bread and Cheese Revolt in North Holland,  German mercenaries killed 232 Alkmaarse. The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War on this day in 1525. Louis van Nassau & the Huguenots occupied Valenciennes on this day in 1572. The Parliament of Paris appointed Louis XIII (who was just 8 years old) as the French king on this day in 1610. An aristocratic uprising in France ended on this day in 1614 with the Treaty of St. Menehould. In 1618 on this day, Johannes Kepler discovered the Harmonic's Law, also known as Kepler's Third Law, which posited that the square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit. For all intents and purposes, that translates to the farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer it will take for that to complete a single orbit. The War of Spanish Succession began on this day in 1701. It was the first New World conflict between England and France. On this day in 1756, the Seven Years War, a global conflict often called the "French and Indian War" in North America, officially started after England declared war on France. On this day in 1791 during the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre proposed the Self-Denying Ordinance. The idea was that members of l'Assemblee nationale would disqualify themselves from election to the Legislature Assembly provided for in the Constitution of 1791. Napoleon entered the Lombardian capital of Milan on this day in 1795. In 1800 on this day, American President John Adams ordered the federal government to move to Washington, D.C. Canadian founder of Manitoba, and Métis insurgent, Louis Reil was captured in Saskatchewan on this day in 1885. The Finnish Civil War ended on this day in 1918. On this day in 1940 during World War II, German troops occupied Amsterdam, as General Winkelman surrendered. Nazi occupiers in Netherlands outlawed Jewish music on this day in 1941. In 1988 on this day, the Soviet Union began the withdrawal of their 115,000 troops from Afghanistan, where they had been fighting for more than eight years.

Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:


•  On this day in 756, Abd-al-Rahman I became the Emir of Cordova, Spain.

•  In 884 on this day, Marinus I ended his reign as Catholic Pope

•  Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy on this day in 1004.

1213 - English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury

•  Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden laid the cornerstone for Koln Cathedral on this day in 1248.

•  In 1252 on this day, Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorized, but also limited, the torture of heretics during the Medieval Inquisition.

•  On this day in 1492 during the Bread and Cheese Revolt in North Holland,  German mercenaries killed 232 Alkmaarse.

1514 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.

1525 - German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war

•  The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War on this day in 1525.

1536 - Anna Boleyn & George Boleyn Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest

•  Louis van Nassau & the Huguenots occupied Valenciennes on this day in 1572.

1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold

Royal France

•  The Parliament of Paris appointed Louis XIII (who was just 8 years old) as the French king on this day in 1610.

•  An aristocratic uprising in France ended on this day in 1614 with the Treaty of St. Menehould.

Bust of Astronomer Johann Kepler

•  In 1618 on this day, Johannes Kepler discovered the Harmonic's Law, also known as Kepler's Third Law, which posited that the square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit. For all intents and purposes, that translates to the farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer it will take for that to complete a single orbit. 

1625 - 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria

1648 - Treaty of Munster: Spain & Netherlands ratified

1665 - Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme

1672 - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts

• The War of Spanish Succession began on this day in 1701. It was the first New World conflict between England and France.

1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun

1730 - Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min)

• On this day in 1756, the Seven Years War, a global conflict often called the "French and Indian War" in North America, officially started after England declared war on France. However, fighting and skirmishes between England and France had been going on in North America for years.    In the early 1750s, French expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought France into armed conflict with the British colonies. In 1756--the first official year of fighting in the Seven Years War--the British suffered a series of defeats against the French and their broad network of Native American alliances. However, in 1757, British Prime Minister William Pitt (the older) recognized the potential of imperial expansion that would come out of victory against the French and borrowed heavily to fund an expanded war effort. Pitt financed Prussia's struggle against France and her allies in Europe and reimbursed the colonies for the raising of armies in North America.    By 1760, the French had been expelled from Canada, and by 1763 all of France's allies in Europe had either made a separate peace with Prussia or had been defeated. In addition, Spanish attempts to aid France in the Americas had failed, and France also suffered defeats against British forces in India.    The Seven Years War ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763. In the Treaty of Paris, France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain, while Britain received Spanish Florida, Upper Canada, and various French holdings overseas. The treaty ensured the colonial and maritime supremacy of Britain and strengthened the 13 American colonies by removing their European rivals to the north and the south. Fifteen years later, French bitterness over the loss of most of their colonial empire contributed to their intervention in the American Revolution on the side of the Patriots.

1768 - Under the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa.

Bust of the "Incorruptible" French Revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre

• On this day in 1791 during the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre proposed the Self-Denying Ordinance. The idea was that members of l'Assemblee nationale would disqualify themselves from election to the Legislature Assembly provided for in the Constitution of 1791.

1793 - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

•  Napoleon entered the Lombardian capital of Milan on this day in 1795.

1796 - France and Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris

1796 - French troops occupy Milan

1796 - First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.

1800 - King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt

Picture of a bust of John Adams

• In 1800 on this day, American President John Adams ordered the federal government to move to Washington, D.C.     On this day in 1800, President John Adams orders the federal government to pack up and leave Philadelphia and set up shop in the nation's new capital in Washington, D.C.    After Congress adjourned its last meeting in Philadelphia on May 15, Adams told his cabinet to make sure Congress and all federal offices were up and running smoothly in their new headquarters by June 15, 1800.   Philadelphia officially ceased to serve as the nation's capital as of June 11, 1800.  At the time, there were only about 125 federal employees. Official documents and archives were transferred from Philadelphia to the new capital by ship over inland waterways. President and Mrs. Adams did not move in to the (unfinished) president's mansion until November of that year. Settling in to the White House was a challenge for the new first lady. In December, Abigail Adams wrote to a friend later she had to line-dry their clothes in what eventually became the East Room.   

1800 - Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles

1817 - Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia

1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1829 - Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith

1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse

1849 - Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded

1849 - Neapolitan troops entered Palermo, and were in possession of Sicily.

1851 - Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned

1856 - Second SF Vigilance Committee organized

1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," was born.

1858 - Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London

1862 - -May 17] Battle of Princeton WV

1862 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia

1862 - Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London

1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.

1862 - Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores

1862 - Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens

1864 - Battle of New Market, Virginia

1864 - Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)

1868 - Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls

1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association forms

1876 - 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25

1882 - May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania

1883 - Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary and Germany

•  Canadian founder of Manitoba, and Métis insurgent, Louis Reil was captured in Saskatchewan on this day in 1885.

1891 - British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms

1891 - Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris

1891 - Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland

1891 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum

1894 - 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41

1896 - Tornado kills 78 in Texas

1897 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.

1902 - Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft

1902 - Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola

1905 - Las Vegas Nevada founded

1905 - Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville

1906 - NY Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning

1910 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.

1911 - British house of commons accept Parliament Bill

1911 - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates

1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, which was headed by John. D. Rockefeller, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1911 - The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.

1912 - 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6

1912 - Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended

1914 - Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris

1914 - Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1915 - A T & T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders

1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.

1916 - Asiago, Italy, fell when Austrian troops attack the Italian front

1918 - The first regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, began under the direction of the Post Office Department, which later became the U.S. Postal Service.



1918 - Greeks troops lands at Smyrna



•  The Finnish Civil War ended on this day in 1918.

1919 - Bkln Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0

1920 - Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk

1923 - Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms

1926 - 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8

1926 - British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike

1926 - Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in Alaska after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible Norge.

1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.

1928 - Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance in "Plane Crazy"

1929 - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)

1930 - On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.

1931 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno

1932 - The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.

1933 - First voice amplification system to be used in US Senate

1934 - Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive

1934 -•   Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia

1935 - Pirates beat Phillies 20-5 1935 - The Moscow Metro is opened to public.

1936 - Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from S Afr in record 4d16h

1937 - 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4

1938 - Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium

1940 - German armour division moves into Northern France

•  On this day in 1940 during World War II, German troops occupied Amsterdam, as General Winkelman surrendered.

1940 - Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)

1940 - USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.

1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.

1941 - First British turbojet flies

1941 - British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya

1941 - • Nazi occupiers in Netherlands outlawed Jewish music on this day in 1941.

1942 - Gasoline rationing began for the first time in the U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles (17 Eastern states).

1942 - Nazi occupiers in Neth arrests 2,000 Dutch officers

1943 - Halifax bombers sinks U-463

1943 - Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction

1943 - •  Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).

1944 - 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz



1944 - •  Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and George VI discuss D-Day plan

1944 - Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne

1945 - •  World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.

1948 - •  28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends

1948 - 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4

1948 - Australia scores 721 runs in one day v Essex, world record

1948 - Bradman scores 187 Aust v Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five

1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.

1951 - AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders

1951 - •  The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.

1952 - Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0

1952 - Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners

1953 - Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago

1953 - Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam

1954 - KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast

1955 - Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again

1955 - Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins

1955 - KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site


1955 - •  Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, US & USSR restores Austria's independence

1955 - The first ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.

1957 - 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade

1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.

The flag of the USSR (Soviet Union)

1958 - •  Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.

1959 - 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams Teams reenact the original contest

1960 - Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0

1960 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad

1960 - KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting

1960 - Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed

1960 - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US

1961 - "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19

1961 - 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1961 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra

1962 - US marines arrive in Laos

1963 - Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched

1963 - Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)


1964 - Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp

1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1964 - The Smothers Brothers, Dick and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.  

1965 - 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2

1965 - Canadian Football Players Association organizes

1965 - Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ

1966 - First day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex v Somerset

1966 - •  South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 died

1968 - "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival

1968 - First AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago

1968 - A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36

1968 - Paul McCartney and John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host

1969 - Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court

    

1970 - •  Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US

1970 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals - Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays.

1970 - Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.

Flag of the Olympics

Flag of South Africa during the apartheid era

•  On this day in 1970, South-Africa was excluded from Olympic play due to it's policy of strict racial segregation known as apartheid, or white minority rule and supremacy.

1971 - "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances

1971 - 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54

1971 - Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed

1972 - "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances

1972 - Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)

1972 - •  Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland, as he campaigned for the presidency.

1972 - Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control

1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.

1973 - California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0

1974 - Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed

1974 - Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president

1974 - Ma'alot massacre: A total of 31 people, including hostage takers, are killed.

1975 - The merchant ship U.S. Mayaguez was recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.

1975 - 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4

1975 - Emmy 2nd Daytime Award and Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation


1976 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation

1976 - Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91

1976 - Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85

1980 - The first transcontinental balloon crossing of the United States took place.

1980 - Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs

1980 - Shawn Weatherly, (SC (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA

1981 - "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs

1981 - 2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC)

1981 - George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK

1981 - Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto

1981 - SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC

1981 - Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6

1982 - 108th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4

1983 - In Boston, MA, the Madison Hotel was destroyed by implosion.

1985 - Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam

1986 - Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years

1987 - 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)

1987 - Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set

1988 - "Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 5 performances

1988 - "Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 61 perfs

1988 - 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman

The flag of the USSR (Soviet Union)

• In 1988 on this day, the Soviet Union began the withdrawal of their 115,000 troops from Afghanistan, where they had been fighting for more than eight years. Soviets begin withdrawal from Afghanistan  More than eight years after they intervened in Afghanistan to support the procommunist government, Soviet troops begin their withdrawal. The event marked the beginning of the end to a long, bloody, and fruitless Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.    In December 1979, Soviet troops first entered Afghanistan in an attempt to bolster the communist, pro-Soviet government threatened by internal rebellion. In a short period of time, thousands of Russian troops and support materials poured into Afghanistan. Thus began a frustrating military conflict with Afghan Muslim rebels, who despised their own nation's communist government and the Soviet troops supporting it. During the next eight years, the two sides battled for control in Afghanistan, with neither the Soviets nor the rebels ever able to gain a decisive victory.    For the Soviet Union, the intervention proved extraordinarily costly in a number of ways. While the Soviets never released official casualty figures for the war in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence sources estimated that as many as 15,000 Russian troops died in Afghanistan, and the economic cost to the already struggling Soviet economy ran into billions of dollars. The intervention also strained relations between the Soviet Union and the United States nearly to the breaking point. President Jimmy Carter harshly criticized the Russian action, stalled talks on arms limitations, issued economic sanctions, and even ordered a boycott of the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow.    By 1988, the Soviets decided to extricate itself from the situation. Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev saw the Afghan intervention as an increasing drain on the Soviet economy, and the Russian people were tired of a war that many Westerners referred to as "Russia's Vietnam." For Afghanistan, the Soviet withdrawal did not mean an end to the fighting, however. The Muslim rebels eventually succeeded in establishing control over Afghanistan in 1992.

1989 - "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances

1989 - Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito Gaston

1989 - Soviet Pres Gorbachev in Beijing for first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs

1989 - US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule

1989 - Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers

1990 - "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 56 perfs

1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.

1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45

1990 - Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe

1991 - Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama"

1991 - Edith Cresson becomes France's first female premier

1991 - Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam

1991 - Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns



1992 - Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy

1992 - NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores

1992 - Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue

1993 - 119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6

1993 - Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens

1993 - Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub

1995 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1997 - ABC News and Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com

1997 - •  The STS 84 (Space shuttle Atlantis 19, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission) blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.

1999 -•   The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.

2008 - California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

2010 - Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.

2012 - Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession

2012 - •  Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are scheduled

These are the web pages that I used to complete this blog:

http://www.historyorb.com/day/may/15

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/may15.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/May-15

More Than Any Other Recent American President, Trump Sparks Domestic and international Outrage

It seems to me that I have been posting a lot more from MSN than usual lately.

That said, this is the first one which I am publishing a post about which is not critical, because this one is not forecasting a soon to come end to Trump's political career. Seeing that sorry excuse for a man, and an even more pathetic excuse for a leader, being in the undeserved position as the nation's elected leader is more than enough for me. Hearing all of the detractors kid themselves into believing that this nightmare will soon be over, engaging in what I feel is blatant and counterproductive escapist fantasies, feels like it is exacerbating matters even more.

However, this MSN article was different. It focuses on something which, I feel, should be addressed. Namely, why this president, more than any other president, seems to trigger almost violent reactions around the world.

Granted, the right in this country reacted violently to Democrats in the Oval Office in recent memory, from Clinton to Obama to Biden. Yet, Trump seems to have outdone all of them, as his mere name and image and voice are triggering to tens of millions of Americans, and countless millions of people all around the world, for that matter.

Why is that? 

Catherine Vercuiel opens the article with this thought:

Few presidents in modern American history have managed to ignite fury on both sides of the aisle, and across both sides of the Atlantic, quite so quickly. In the space of just over a year, the second Trump administration has set off a chain of events that has left diplomats scrambling, lawmakers demanding emergency hearings, and allied governments publicly distancing themselves from Washington in language that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

Boy, she's not kidding. While some political tensions have always existed between the United States and other nations, these have grown more serious over the years. Yet even when there seemed to be a lot of tensions between the United States and it's allies during, say, the Bush years and the war with Iraq, there nevertheless was no question that each side still considered themselves allies. 

All of that has changed with Trump, and particularly this second term. With no more guard rails, Trump has managed to really rub people the wrong way. He slaps tariffs on most countries around the world, without any kind of focus. Perhaps tariffs, either actual or threatened, might have worked if they were targeted for a specific purpose. Let's say, maybe threatening China with tariffs for unfair economic practices, but making sure to get allies on board and forcing (or trying to) China's hands. But Trump just threw the tariffs up all across the board, with few exceptions, whether the countries were allies or not. 

Then, Trump kept threatening to take over other lands. He repeatedly and relentlessly spoke of militarily taking over Greenland, which certainly is not a way to win favor with our European allies. He also repeatedly referred to Canada (a traditional ally) as the "51st state" and openly floated the idea of them joining the United States. Undermining a nation's independent status and repeatedly and completely unnecessarily mocking and haranguing them is also not a smart way to retain them as allies. The whole world watched and judged Trump - and by extension, the United States - harshly. Frankly, the harsh judgement was well-deserved.

Plus, let's not forget the other invasions, threatened or otherwise. Trump threatened to take over Panama again, threatened to take over Gaza and make it a Mediterranean Riviera. He also threatened boots on the ground in Mexico for the drug war. Then he took over Venezuela and threatened that Colombia and Cuba might be next. Then he launched this ridiculous war against Iran. He insulted our allies for not doing enough, then asked them for help (sort of), then insulted them again for refusing to get involved in the war which he wanted and started, without either trying to win their support, or make the case with the American people, or even get Congressional approval. 

Yeah, when you act like that, the rest of the world is indeed going to treat you like a pariah. More people the world over view the United States as a rogue state. And let's face it: they are not entirely wrong. When you elect a leader who makes a point of antagonizing other countries and threatens to militarily take over other sovereign countries, you generally are not going to be regarded as the good guy. Why would you be? 

All of that, and frankly quite a bit more, is part of the reason why Trump elicits such strong reaction. Yes, he has his cult following, and they will continue their loyal support unquestioningly. But there are more people who view him as a danger and a threat to American democracy and the prospects for world stability and peace. 

So yeah, the guy certainly is going to have his detractors. He brings that upon himself, quite frankly.

Let's be real here for a minute: never have I seen so many people take joy whenever something goes wrong for one person, or his family. It's amazing. Never before have so many people seemed to actively root against a President of the United States, and that's really saying something. We have seen people cheering for when bad things happened to Clinton, then Bush, and Biden. But it pales by comparison with the sheer joy that people take when something bad happens to the Trump family, and especially Donald Trump himself. Since I do not like Trump, I will admit to taking some pleasure in seeing him embarrassed as well, such as when he got laughed at before the entire world while addressing the United Nations after mistaking it for a Trump rally. This MAGAlomaniac began his typical self-praising, only to find that he was not among "his" people anymore. Which he should have known, frankly, as the president giving a speech before assembled leaders of the world. That kind of buffoonery seems like something which only Trump, among presidents in American history, would have been capable of making. 

As an example of how immediate the response to Trump is internationally, I am also sharing a link to a recent Youtube video about the proposed Trump Tower there changing it's name and citing the reason being that Trump's name has become "toxic" (their words, not mine):

Domestic and international anger ignited after Trump's latest action Story by Catherine Vercuiel • 14h

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/domestic-and-international-anger-ignited-after-trump-s-latest-action/ar-AA235FZf?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=6a053bcb83bf4687a17002ff589d3007&ei=9

Domestic and international anger ignited after Trump's latest action

Planned Australia Trump Tower drops Trump name

https://youtu.be/Nar7dPm8WyM?si=dzvMx8sahPo3ECaU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=dzvMx8sahPo3ECaU&v=Nar7dPm8WyM&feature=youtu.be

Humor - Xi Humiliates Trump by Reading Aloud From Epstein Files Andy Borowitz May 14

It has been a rough few days, and I felt in need of a good laugh.

Andy Borowitz provided me with a couple. One of them came last evening, in a very short video clip with Trump loudly and obnoxiously (two words which pretty much define him) seeming to clear his throat. That had replaced the MGM lion before the movies, and that got me laughing.

Then this evening, I ran into this spoof article, and it got me laughing once again.

Just the title alone was enough for me to laugh, although I figured it would be worth it to also provide the link to the article.

Take a look and enjoy:

Xi Humiliates Trump by Reading Aloud From Epstein Files Andy Borowitz May 14

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/xi-humiliates-trump-by-reading-aloud

Xi Humiliates Trump by Reading Aloud From Epstein Files

Yet Again, Trump Trying to Cancel Elections

This story came out earlier this month, shortly after the controversial Callais decision by the Supreme Court, which basically gave southern red states carte blanche to go ahead and gerrymander and redistrict their states in favor of the Republican party. After that, Donald Trump felt that the upcoming midterm elections should be suspended and new ones formed to reflect the new reality of redistricting which favors Republicans. That, despite Trump and MAGA politicians generally polling incredibly low at the moment nationwide, with no polls showing that Trump is even at or above 40% approval ratings.

As I and plenty of others have warned plenty of times in the past, never before have we had such an anti-democratic White House, Congress, or Supreme Court in place. When people warned the our democracy was extremely fragile and quickly eroding, this is what they were talking about. Now, we are seeing it come to fruition.

Can we even really be regarded as a democracy anymore? 

Can we even really fully be regarded as a free nation anymore?

All of this is happening on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which is generally regarded as the single event which gave birth to the modern United States of America. Which is why, frankly, I hardly feel like celebrating, when it seems that everything that our progress up to this point represented - the expansion of individual freedoms and civil liberties, a representative democracy, responsible and fairly elected leadership - is all beginning to fall all around us. Indeed, these are dark days for our American democracy, which is proving to be far more fragile than anyone realized. It will not escape this political era of Trump and MAGA unscathed or stronger for the test. Really, I am not exaggerating by suggesting that it no longer feels like we can fully consider ourselves a democracy, or fully free any longer.

Frankly, the agenda towards building an American dictatorship which Trump and MAGA nation are trying so desperately to establish keeps scoring major victories. So far, it has all been done perfectly legally. That is why, despite all of the screaming headlines revealing how unpopular the Trump presidency is and has been, it hardly feels like it matters that a majority of Americans support or like the Trump White House. The very thing that Trump and his MAGA morons have projected onto others is now becoming reality under them. Truly, the game has been and continued to be rigged in their favor over time.

This is how democracy dies. 

And the worst part? 

They're not even hiding it anymore.

Frankly, the way that this country is going, it seems like the powers that be who are in complete control have learned the lesson that they do not need to bother hiding it any longer. Not enough people actually pay attention for it to really matter, one way or another. It is clear to me that we Americans have lost our appetite for holding our elected leaders to account for their wrongdoing ever since Watergate. The results have been predictable: we keep getting leaders who seem to test the limits of what they can get away with. This problem has grown worse, until we have reached the point where we now have someone who seems to have a new scandal literally every day. And that, it feels, assures that things will simply be allowed to grow worse and worse for the country, and indeed, for the world.

Somewhere along the line, there has to be a breaking point, right? It is just damn difficult right now to know what that will be, or what happens once we reach it. 

Meanwhile, we have to endure headlines and news stories which perfectly illustrate just how much worse things are getting for this country. 

Below are the links to the two articles used in writing this particular blog entry:

Trump issues 'demand' that states cancel elections after Supreme Court rigs maps for GOP after Callais  by Jacob Knutson May 4, 2026:

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-demand-states-cancel-elections-rig-maps-after-supreme-court-callais/

Trump issues ‘demand’ that states cancel elections and rig maps for GOP after Callais  - Democracy Docket

Trump Floats Cancelling 2026 Elections, Then Insists He Won't by Nik Popli Reporter  Jan 6, 2026 :

https://time.com/7343696/trump-floats-cancelling-2026-elections/

Trump Floats Cancelling Election, Then Insists He Won't

May 14th: This Day in History

 

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

On this day in 649, Theodore I ended his reign as Catholic Pope. In 1027, Robert II, the Vrome, named son Henry I, King of France. French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) was assassinated on this day in 1610 by a fanatical monk, François Ravillac, which brought Louis XIII to the throne. In 1643 on this day, Louis XIV became the King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. On this day in 1787, delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution. Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premiered in Weimar on this day in 1800. This day in 1804 marked the beginning of the Lewis & Clark expedition. William Clark set off the famous expedition from Camp Dubois. A few days later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis joined the group. The group was known as the "Corps of Discovery", and were seeking a navigable way to the Pacific coast. Charles Darwin reached the Coquimbo in northern Chile on this day in 1835. This day in 1868 during the Japanese Boshin War marked the end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdrew northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō. On this day in 1874, McGill University and Harvard met at Cambridge, MA, for the first college American football game to charge admission. Harvard defeated the University of McGill (Montreal) 3-0. Thomas Edison incorporated the Edison Telephone Company of Europe on this day in 1879. On this day in 1940 during World War II, Nazi German bombs rained down on Rotterdam, resulting in 600-900 dead, as Netherlands surrendered to Germany. In 1948 on this day, British rule in Palestine came to an end as The Jewish National Council and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel. Within hours, Israel was under attack from Arab forces. The Warsaw Pact, an Eastern European mutual-defense treaty, was signed in Poland by eight communist bloc countries on this day in 1955. It was signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Ultimately, it dissolved in 1991 at the end of the Cold War. A bus with the first group of Freedom Riders was bombed and burned in Alabama on this day in 1961. The Beatles announced the formation of Apple Corp on this day in 1968. In 1968 on this day, the Czechoslovakian government announced liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek. Abortion and contraception were legalized in Canada on this day in 1969. On this day in 1970, the South Vietnamese sustained the second highest casualties of the war. Skylab, the United States’ first space station, was launched into orbit around the Earth on this day in 1973. On this day in 1975, the French press reported on massive deportations from Cambodia. In 1975 on this day, 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. American President Jimmy Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services on this day in 1980. On this day in 1991 in South Africa, Winnie Mandela was sentenced to six years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal In 1992 on this day, 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. Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82 on this day in 1998. On this day in 212, Stanford University scientists developed a prototype of a bionic eye.

Here are some of the events that occurred on this day throughout recorded history in greater detail:

•  On this day in 649, Theodore I ended his reign as Catholic Pope

• In 1027, Robert II, the Vrome, named son Henry I, King of France.

1264 - Battle at Lewes during the Second Barons War: Simon van Leicester defeats and captures English King Henry III in France.

1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").

1509 - In the Battle of Agnadello, French defeated Venitians in Northern Italy.

1576 - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten

1607 - First permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va

1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.

Royal France

•  French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) was assassinated on this day in 1610 by a fanatical monk, François Ravillac, which brought Louis XIII to the throne.

1638 - Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon

Louis XIV, the "Sun King" of France

•   In 1643 on this day, Louis XIV became the King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.



1664 - Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers

1702 - England and the Netherlands declared war on France and Spain

1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw

1727 - Thomas Gainsborough was born. He was an English painter.

1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.

1767 - British government disbands Americans import duty on tea

  

Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA 

•  On this day in 1787, delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.

May 14, 1787: Constitutional Convention delegates begin to assemble  On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin to assemble in Philadelphia to confront a daunting task: the peaceful overthrow of the new American government as defined by the Article of Confederation. Although the convention was originally supposed to begin on May 14, James Madison reported that a small number only had assembled. Meetings had to be pushed back until May 25, when a sufficient quorum of the participating states—Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia—had arrived.    As the new United States descended into economic crisis and inter-state quarrels, the new nation's leaders had become increasingly frustrated with their limited power. When in 1785, Maryland and Virginia could not agree on their rights to the Potomac River, George Washington called a conference to settle the matter at Mt. Vernon. James Madison then convinced the Virginia legislature to call a convention of all the states to discuss such sticky trade-related issues at Annapolis, Maryland. The Annapolis Convention of September 1786 in turn called the Philadelphia Convention, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union.    Between Madison's initial call for the states to send delegates to Annapolis and the presentation of Madison's Virginia plan for a new government to the convention in Philadelphia, a fundamental shift in the aims of the convention process had taken place. No longer were the delegates gathered with the aim of tweaking trade agreements. A significant number of the men present were now determined to overhaul the new American government as a whole, without a single ballot being cast by the voting public. 

1796 - Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccine, inoculating 8-year-old James Phipps.

•  Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premiered in Weimar on this day in 1800.

•  This day in 1804 marked the beginning of the Lewis & Clark expedition. William Clark set off the famous expedition from Camp Dubois. A few days later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis joined the group. The group was known as the "Corps of Discovery", and were seeking a navigable way to the Pacific coast.

May 14, 1804: Lewis and Clark depart  One year after the United States doubled its territory with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.    Even before the U.S. government concluded purchase negotiations with France, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned his private secretary Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, an army captain, to lead an expedition into what is now the U.S. Northwest. On May 14, the "Corps of Discovery"--featuring approximately 45 men (although only an approximate 33 men would make the full journey)--left St. Louis for the American interior.    The expedition traveled up the Missouri River in a 55-foot long keelboat and two smaller boats. In November, Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader accompanied by his young Native American wife Sacagawea, joined the expedition as an interpreter. The group wintered in present-day North Dakota before crossing into present-day Montana, where they first saw the Rocky Mountains. On the other side of the Continental Divide, they were met by Sacagawea's tribe, the Shoshone Indians, who sold them horses for their journey down through the Bitterroot Mountains. After passing through the dangerous rapids of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in canoes, the explorers reached the calm of the Columbia River, which led them to the sea. On November 8, 1805, the expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean, the first European explorers to do so by an overland route from the east. After pausing there for the winter, the explorers began their long journey back to St. Louis.    On September 23, 1806, after almost two and a half years, the expedition returned to the city, bringing back a wealth of information about the largely unexplored region, as well as valuable U.S. claims to Oregon Territory.

1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)

1832 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides," premieres

British Botanist Charles Darwin

•   Charles Darwin reached the Coquimbo in northern Chile on this day in 1835.

1842 - Illustrated London News; the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, begins publication

1845 - Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens

1853 - Gail Borden patented her process for condensed milk

1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.

1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patented the chronograph

1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson, MS takes place.

•   This day in 1868 during the Japanese Boshin War marked the end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdrew northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.

•   On this day in 1874, McGill University and Harvard met at Cambridge, MA, for the first college American football game to charge admission. Harvard defeated the University of McGill (Montreal) 3-0.

1878 - Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)  The name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.

1879 - The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.

Monuments to Thomas Edison at Menlo Park in Edison,  NJ 

•   Thomas Edison incorporated the Edison Telephone Company of Europe on this day in 1879.

1884 - Anti-Monopoly party forms in US


1889 - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.



1892 - Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem

1894 - Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings

1896 - Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)

Flag of Ethiopia

The Lion of Judah Emblem of the Ethiopian Empire

1897 - Great-Britain signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia

1897 - Guglielmo Marconi made the first communication by wireless telegraph.

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.      

1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF

1904 - The Olympic Games were held in the United States for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri.

1905 - 2nd official intl soccer match, Netherlands beats Belgium 4-0

1906 - Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising

1908 - First passenger flight in an airplane

1910 - Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins

1913 - French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands


1913 - The Rockefeller Foundation was created by John D. Rockefeller with a gift of $100,000,000.

1914 - Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0

1918 - Sunday baseball is made legal in Wash DC

1919 - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53

1919 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta


1920 - Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season

1921 - Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death

1921 - Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats

1925 - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

1927 - "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie

1927 - 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06

1927 - Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg.

1927 - The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.

1928 - John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg

1931 - Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.

1932 - "We Want Beer!" parade in NY

1935 - Griffith Planetarium opens in LA

1935 - LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US

1935 - Plebiscite in Philippines ratified independence agreement

1935 - Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939.

1938 - 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8

1938 - English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3

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

1940 - Admiral Furstner departs to England

1940 - Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof

1940 - German breakthrough at Sedan

1940 - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production





•  On this day in 1940 during World War II, Nazi German bombs rained down on Rotterdam, resulting in 600-900 dead, as Netherlands surrendered to Germany.

1941 - 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested

1942 - The British, while retreating from Burma, reached India.

1942 - "Lincoln Portrait" by Aaron Copland was performed for the first time by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was established by an act of the U.S. Congress.

1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

1944 - 91 German bombers harass Bristol

1944 - British troops occupy Kohima

1944 - Gen Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler

1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise

1945 - US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered

1946 - Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres

Flag of Israel

• In 1948 on this day, British rule in Palestine came to an end as The Jewish National Council and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel. Within hours, Israel was under attack from Arab forces.

May 14, 1948: State of Israel proclaimed  On May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years. In an afternoon ceremony at the Tel Aviv Art Museum, Ben-Gurion pronounced the words "We hereby proclaim the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine, to be called Israel," prompting applause and tears from the crowd gathered at the museum. Ben-Gurion became Israel's first premier.    In the distance, the rumble of guns could be heard from fighting that broke out between Jews and Arabs immediately following the British army withdrawal earlier that day. Egypt launched an air assault against Israel that evening. Despite a blackout in Tel Aviv--and the expected Arab invasion--Jews joyously celebrated the birth of their new nation, especially after word was received that the United States had recognized the Jewish state. At midnight, the State of Israel officially came into being upon termination of the British mandate in Palestine.    Modern Israel has its origins in the Zionism movement, established in the late 19th century by Jews in the Russian Empire who called for the establishment of a territorial Jewish state after enduring persecution. In 1896, Jewish-Austrian journalist Theodor Herzl published an influential political pamphlet called The Jewish State, which argued that the establishment of a Jewish state was the only way of protecting Jews from anti-Semitism. Herzl became the leader of Zionism, convening the first Zionist Congress in Switzerland in 1897. Ottoman-controlled Palestine, the original home of the Jews, was chosen as the most desirable location for a Jewish state, and Herzl unsuccessfully petitioned the Ottoman government for a charter.    After the failed Russian Revolution of 1905, growing numbers of Eastern European and Russian Jews began to immigrate to Palestine, joining the few thousand Jews who had arrived earlier. The Jewish settlers insisted on the use of Hebrew as their spoken language. With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Britain took over Palestine. In 1917, Britain issued the "Balfour Declaration," which declared its intent to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Although protested by the Arab states, the Balfour Declaration was included in the British mandate over Palestine, which was authorized by the League of Nations in 1922. Because of Arab opposition to the establishment of any Jewish state in Palestine, British rule continued throughout the 1920s and '30s.    Beginning in 1929, Arabs and Jews openly fought in Palestine, and Britain attempted to limit Jewish immigration as a means of appeasing the Arabs. As a result of the Holocaust in Europe, many Jews illegally entered Palestine during World War II. Radical Jewish groups employed terrorism against British forces in Palestine, which they thought had betrayed the Zionist cause. At the end of World War II, in 1945, the United States took up the Zionist cause. Britain, unable to find a practical solution, referred the problem to the United Nations, which in November 1947 voted to partition Palestine.    The Jews were to possess more than half of Palestine, although they made up less than half of Palestine's population. The Palestinian Arabs, aided by volunteers from other countries, fought the Zionist forces, but by May 14, 1948, the Jews had secured full control of their U.N.-allocated share of Palestine and also some Arab territory. On May 14, Britain withdrew with the expiration of its mandate, and the State of Israel was proclaimed. The next day, forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded.    The Israelis, though less well equipped, managed to fight off the Arabs and then seize key territory, such as Galilee, the Palestinian coast, and a strip of territory connecting the coastal region to the western section of Jerusalem. In 1949, U.N.-brokered cease-fires left the State of Israel in permanent control of this conquered territory. The departure of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs from Israel during the war left the country with a substantial Jewish majority.    During the third Arab-Israeli conflict--the Six-Day War of 1967--Israel again greatly increased its borders, capturing from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria the Old City of Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. In 1979, Israel and Egypt signed an historic peace agreement in which Israel returned the Sinai in exchange for Egyptian recognition and peace. Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed a major peace accord in 1993, which envisioned the gradual implementation of Palestinian self-government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Israeli-Palestinian peace process moved slowly, however, and in 2000 major fighting between Israelis and Palestinians resumed in Israel and the occupied territories.

1948 - Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's first broadcast

1948 - Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem

1948 - US grants Israel de facto recognition

1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

1948 - WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting

1949 - "Love Life" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 252 performances

1949 - 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56

1949 - Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral

1950 - Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs

1951 - "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances


1951 - Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC

1951 - Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley," premieres in NYC

1954 - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months

1955 - US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

• The Warsaw Pact, an Eastern European mutual-defense treaty, was signed in Poland by eight communist bloc countries on this day in 1955. It was signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Ultimately, it dissolved in 1991 at the end of the Cold War.

May 14, 1955: The Warsaw Pact is formed  The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.    The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union. The introduction to the treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact indicated the reason for its existence. This revolved around "Western Germany, which is being remilitarized, and her inclusion in the North Atlantic bloc, which increases the danger of a new war and creates a threat to the national security of peace-loving states." This passage referred to the decision by the United States and the other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on May 9, 1955 to make West Germany a member of NATO and allow that nation to remilitarize. The Soviets obviously saw this as a direct threat and responded with the Warsaw Pact.    The Warsaw Pact remained intact until 1991. Albania was expelled in 1962 because, believing that Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev was deviating too much from strict Marxist orthodoxy, the country turned to communist China for aid and trade. In 1990, East Germany left the Pact and reunited with West Germany; the reunified Germany then became a member of NATO. The rise of non-communist governments in other eastern bloc nations, such as Poland and Czechoslovakia, throughout 1990 and 1991 marked an effective end of the power of the Warsaw Pact. In March 1991, the military alliance component of the pact was dissolved and in July 1991, the last meeting of the political consultative body took place.

1957 - "New Girl in Town" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances

1957 - Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in NYC

1960 - "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs

1960 - USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule

1960 - Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Potsdam NY

• A bus with the first group of Freedom Riders was bombed and burned in Alabama on this day in 1961.  

1961 - Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix

1962 - Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years

1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1963 - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations

1964 - Underground America Day is 1st observed

1965 - Second Chinese atom bomb explodes

1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1966 - First reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)

1966 - A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95

1967 - Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller

1967 - Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down

    

•  The Beatles announced the formation of Apple Corp on this day in 1968.

•  In 1968 on this day, the Czechoslovakian government announced liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek.

1968 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin

•  Abortion and contraception were legalized in Canada on this day in 1969.

1969 - Jacqueline Susann’s second novel, "The Love Machine," was published by Simon and Schuster.

1969 - Last Chevrolet Corsair built

1970 - Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)

1970 - Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court

1970 - NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing

1970 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin

1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.

• On this day in 1970, the South Vietnamese sustained the second highest casualties of the war. Allied military officials announce that 863 South Vietnamese were killed from May 3 to 9. This was the second highest weekly death toll of the war to date for the South Vietnamese forces. These numbers reflected the changing nature of the war as U.S. forces continued to withdraw and the burden of the fighting was shifted to the South Vietnamese as part of Nixon's "Vietnamization" of the war effort.   

1972 - 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton

1972 - In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4

1973 - Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London

1973 - Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV

•   Skylab, the United States’ first space station, was launched into orbit around the Earth on this day in 1973.

1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military

1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed

1975 - Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II

• On this day in 1975, the French press reported on massive deportations from Cambodia.

•  In 1975 on this day, 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.

1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1976 - Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter

1976 - Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast

1977 - English football international Bobby Moore retires

1977 - KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0

1977 - Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms

1977 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games

1978 - "Working" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 25 performances

1978 - First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.

American President Jimmy Carter

•  American President Jimmy Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services on this day in 1980.

1980 - Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II

1980 - "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances

1980 - Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3

1981 - 35th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2

1981 - NASA launches space vehicle S-192

1982 - Guinea adopts constitution

1983 - "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5

1983 - Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)

1984 - 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama

1985 - The first McDonald's restaurant became the first fast-food business museum. It is located in Des Plaines, Illinois.

1986 - Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary

1986 - Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place

1986 - Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.

1987 - "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany

1987 - Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000

1988 - In the Andean village of Cayara, Peru's military was involved in a massacre of at least 26 peasants.

1988 - "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances

1988 - 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he and St Louis Cardinals lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn

1988 - Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.

1989 - First time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)

1989 - Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square

1989 - Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs

1989 - Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC

1990 - 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)

1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53

1991 - 42 die in a train collision is Japan 1991 - Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA

1991 - World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs

Flag of South Africa during the apartheid era

•  On this day in 1991 in South Africa, which was still under apartheid white minority government rule, Winnie Mandela was sentenced to six years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal





•  In 1992 on this day, 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.

1994 - Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617

1994 - FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London

1995 - "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances

1995 - Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th)

1995 - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader

1996 - A tornado hit 80 villages in nothern Bangladesh. More than 440 people were killed.

1996 - NY Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0

1997 - Baseball's Exec Council suspends NY Yank owner George Steinbrenner

1998 - The Associated Press marked its 150th anniversary.

1998 - Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)

•  Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82 on this day in 1998.

1999 - North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War.

2002 - Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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

2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.

2005 - The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.

2005 - The art exhibit "Gumby and Friends: The First 50 Years" opened at the Lynn House Gallery in Antioch, CA.

2012 - 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike

•  On this day in 212, Stanford University scientists developed a prototype of a bionic eye.




These are the web pages that I used to complete this blog:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/may14.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

http://www.historyorb.com/day/may/14