1889
Paris Eiffel Tower (1889, 330-m)
The Blackpool Tower (opened May 14, 1894) is the 158-m steel-tower modeled on the Paris Eiffel Tower (1889, 330-m).
On this day
May 14
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on May 14 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
2 events
2 centuries
2 countries
1940
Rotterdam was systematically destroyed by German bombing on May 14, 1940
a single day of bombardment by the Luftwaffe destroyed the medieval city center, killing nearly 900 people and rendering 80,000 homeless; the bombing was the threat that pushed the Netherlands to surrender within days.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →