14 May

Events which occurred on the 14th of May.

Events

1607: The first permanent North American British settlement, Jamestown, is founded.
1796: Doctor Edward Jenner creates the smallpox vaccine on Earth. (TOS reference: Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual)
1804: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark begin an historic expedition from Missouri to Oregon in North America. (DS9 - Mission Gamma novel: Cathedral)
1945: During World War II, a Japanese kamikaze airplane crashes into the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, nearly disabling her. (The Official Fan Club Magazine Issue 61: "Enterprise: A Timeless Legend")
1973: NASA launches the Skylab space station from Cape Canaveral, Florida into Earth orbit. (ST reference: Spaceflight Chronology, TOS novel: Assignment: Eternity)
1974: On a mission as "Veronica Neary" to infiltrate Sarina Kaur's Chrysalis Project, Roberta Lincoln arrives in Rome with Isis. Purporting to be selling hi-end genetics equipment, Aegis agent Gary Seven meets with intermediary purchaser Ralph Offenhouse in New York City. Kaur kills biochemist Joel Singer after he violated the project's security protocols. (ST - The Eugenics Wars novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)
1987: Actor Rita Hayworth dies.
1998: Singer Frank Sinatra dies.
2003: The Untouchables actor Robert Stack dies.
2010: The space shuttle
Atlantis
launches for mission STS-132.

1977: TOS comic: "The Ghost Planet", part 10 is reprinted in Mighty TV Comic, Issue 1326.
1980: The 11th installment of TOS comic: "Double Bluff" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
1981: The 19th installment of TOS comic: "The Savage Within" is published.
1982: The 75th installment of TOS comic: "The Wristwatch Plantation" is published.
1983: The 6th installment of TOS comic: "Goodbye to Spock" is published.
1990: TNG episode: "Sarek" airs (week of).
1994: TNG episode: "Preemptive Strike" airs (week of).
1997: VOY episode: "Worst Case Scenario" airs.
2003: ENT episodes: "First Flight", "Bounty" air.
2008: ST omnibus: Alien Spotlight, Volume I is released by IDW Publishing.
2014: TOS - New Visions comic: "The Mirror, Cracked" is published.
2019: Rise of Discovery, the 17th "season" update to Star Trek Online, debuts from Cryptic Studios.
2020: Graphic Novel Collection, Volume 112 is released by Eaglemoss Collections.