Today is Monday, May 14, the 134th day of 2007. There are 231 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
Four hundred years ago, on May 14, 1607, English colonists went ashore in Virginia to begin building a permanent settlement, named Jamestown after England's King James I.
On this date:
In 1643, Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XV.
In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox to 8-year-old James Phipps by using cowpox matter.
In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory left St. Louis.
In 1900, the Olympic games opened in Paris, held as part of the 1900 World's Fair.
In 1942, Congress voted to establish the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps.
In 1948 (according to the current-era calendar), the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv.
In 1973, the United States launched Skylab I, its first manned space station.
In 1975, U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members had already been released safely by Cambodia, but some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.
In 1987, actress Rita Hayworth died in New York at age 68.
In 1998, singer-actor Frank Sinatra died at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82.
Ten years ago: Jurors at the Timothy McVeigh trial in Denver saw chilling black-and-white surveillance pictures of a Ryder truck moving toward the Oklahoma City federal building minutes before a bomb blew the place apart.
Five years ago: NATO and Russia reached a historic agreement to combat common security threats in the post-Sept. 11 era. Former President Jimmy Carter addressed Cubans in an unprecedented hour of live, uncensored television - telling them that their country did not meet international standards of democracy.
One year ago: Mexican President Vicente Fox telephoned President Bush to express his concern about the border between the two nations, a day before Bush's planned Oval Office speech on immigration. Rene Preval was sworn in as Haiti's president for the second time in a decade. Former U.S. poet laureate Stanley Kunitz died in New York at age 100. Aras Baskauskas, a 24-year-old yoga instructor from Santa Monica, Calif., won "Survivor: Panama, Exile Island," the 12th edition of the CBS reality show.
Today's Birthdays: Opera singer Patrice Munsel is 82. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., is 65. Rock singer-musician Jack Bruce (Cream) is 64. Movie producer George Lucas is 63. Actress Meg Foster is 59. Rock singer David Byrne is 55. Movie director Robert Zemeckis is 55. Actor Tim Roth is 46. Rock singer Ian Astbury (The Cult) is 45. Rock musician C.C./Cecil DeVille is 45. Actor Danny Huston is 45. Rock musician Mike Inez (Alice In Chains) is 41. Fabrice Morvan (ex-Milli Vanilli) is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Raphael Saadiq is 41. Actress Cate Blanchett is 38. Singer Danny Wood (New Kids on the Block) is 38. Movie writer-director Sofia Coppola is 36. Singer Natalie Appleton (All Saints) is 34. Singer Shanice is 34. Rock musician Henry Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 29. Actress Amber Tamblyn is 24. Actress Miranda Cosgrove is 14.
Thought for Today: "The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have." - Ring Lardner, American humorist (1885-1933).
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