On May 14, 1607, Jamestown, Virginia, was settled as the first English colony in the future United States.
On May 14, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention began to assemble in Philadelphia to confront changes to the Article of Confederation. Though the convention was supposed to begin on May 14, it had to be pushed back until May 25, when a sufficient quorum of the participating states had arrived.
On May 14, 1961, a Freedom Riders bus was fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters beaten by an angry mob.