May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias and Saint Mo Chutu (Roman Catholicism)
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- 1509 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces defeated the Venetians at the Battle of Agnadello in present-day Northern Italy.
- 1796 – English physician Edward Jenner began testing cowpox as a vaccine against smallpox.
- 1868 – Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
- 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.
- 1973 – The NASA space station Skylab (pictured) was launched from Cape Canaveral.
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