14 May 259

British politician Stephen Timms survived a murder attempt by an Islamic extremist during a constituency surgery.

On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.

Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.

Cold War: Eight Eastern Bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty to establish the Warsaw Pact.

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

Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.

World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.

In Lima, Peru, Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and twenty-one days.

Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.

The last witchcraft trial in the United States opened in Salem, Massachusetts.

Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.

American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.

Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma.

Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34 camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps.

Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coast of the United States and back.

War of the League of Cambrai: French forces defeated the Venetians at the Battle of Agnadello in present-day Northern Italy.

Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.

Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

China successfully lands Zhurong, the country's first Mars rover.

Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.

Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first shuttle-launched Russian ISS component — Rassvet. This was originally slated to be the final launch of Atlantis, before Congress approved STS-135.

Battle of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre between Zenit supporters and Rangers supporters and the Greater Manchester Police; 39 policemen injured, one police dog injured and 39 arrested.

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

Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Mary Donaldson are married at Copenhagen Cathedral.