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Old 05-14-2016, 11:26 AM   #66
Gravdigr
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May 14

1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.

1787 – In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.

1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.

1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.

1897 – "The Stars and Stripes Forever" is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, in Philadelphia.

1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs Dalloway" is published.

1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

1988 – Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.

Births

1727 – Thomas Gainsborough; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peace; 1885 – Otto Klemperer; 1921 – Richard Deacon; 1925 – Oona O'Neill (daughter of Eugene Oneill, wife of Charlie Chaplin); 1932 – Richard Estes; 1936 – Bobby Darin; 1943 – Jack Bruce; 1944 – George Lucas; 1951 – Robert Zemeckis; 1952 – Michael Fallon; 1953 – Tom Cochrane; 1961 – Tim Roth (Mr. Orange); 1962 – Ian Astbury, C.C. DeVille, Danny Huston; 1964 – James M. Kelly (Shuttle astronaut), Eric Peterson; 1966 – Mike Inez; 1967 – Tony Siragusa; 1969 – Cate Blanchett; 1971 – Sofia Coppola; 1979 – Dan Auerbach; 1983 – Frank Gore, Amber Tamblyn; 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg; 1986 – Clay Matthews; 1989 – Rob Gronkowski

Deaths

1610 – Henry IV of France; 1643 – Louis XIII of France; 1919 – Henry J. Heinz; 1925 – H. Rider Haggard; 1968 – Husband E. Kimmel; 1970 – Billie Burke; 1976 – Keith Relf; 1982 – Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver); 1987 – Rita Hayworth; 1992 – Lyle Alzado; 1993 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr.; 1997 – Harry Blackstone Jr.; 1998 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Frank Sinatra; 2003 – Wendy Hiller, Robert Stack; 2004 – Anna Lee (Lila Quartermaine on "General Hospital"; 2015 – B.B. King
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