On This Day
14 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1962 Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was elected as second President of India.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1796 English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox to his gardener's son. One of history's deadliest diseases, smallpox is estimated to have killed more than 300 million people since 1900 alone. But a massive global vaccination campaign put an end to the disease in 1977—making it the first disease ever eradicated.
- 1948 The state of Israel was established, an event which immediately led to the first Arab-Israeli war.
- 1965 Eoin Colfer, Irish author of children's books, was born. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series.
- 2013 Dan Brown's fourth novel starring Robert Langdon (The Da Vinci Code), titled Inferno, is released and instantly becomes a bestseller.
- 2019 Wikipedia confirms China has banned all versions of its site.
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