Event:
In efforts to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans from floods, the Morganza Spillway is opened on the Mississippi River, deliberately flooding 3,000 square miles of rural Louisiana
More Notable Events on May 14:
1973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1948 Israel declares independence from British administration
1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast
