Happy Birthday May 14

Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer Robert Owen was born on May 14, 1771. Owen raised the demand for a ten-hour working day in 1810, and instituted it in his socialist enterprise at New Lanark. By 1817 he had formulated the goal of the eight-hour day and coined the slogan: "Eight hours' labor, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest". 

Robert Owen

Hans Albert Einstein, the first son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić, was born on May 14, 1904. Hans became a professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, after having little interaction with his father during his childhood. 

Peruvian Lina Medina became on May 14, 1939 the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of at the age of five years, seven months and 17 days. Medina's son weighed 6.0 lb at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Medina was his sister, but found out at the age of 10 that she was his mother. The biological father who impregnated Lina was never identified.

For more May 14 anniversaries, including four-year-old Louis XIV becoming King of France, the premiere of Felix Mendelssohn's The Hebrides Overture also known as "Fingal's Cave" and the establishment of the State of Israel, check out OnThatDay.