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.
Appendices[]
Calendar of publication and production[]
- 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.
External link[]
- 14 May article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.