Today in History: May 14, Jamestown becomes North America’s first English settlement
Currently is Wednesday May the th day of There are days left in the year At present in history On May Jamestown the first permanent English settlement in North America was established by members of the Virginia Company Also on this date In the Lewis and Clark expedition organized to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest began its journey near present-day Hartford Illinois Related Articles Donald and Melania Trump are essentially separated biographer says Why a contentious project to raise California s Shasta Dam could move forward under Trump House Republicans look to help Trump strip tax-exempt status of nonprofits he says assistance terrorism Lauren Sanchez is very influential in how Bezos runs the Washington Post Campus protests flare on a smaller scale than last spring but with higher stakes In English physician Edward Jenner successfully inoculated -year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter Smallpox would be declared the first fully eradicated human condition in In the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv by David Ben-Gurion who became its first prime minister In representatives from eight Communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland The pact was dissolved in In Freedom Rider civil rights activists were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham Alabama In NASA launched Skylab the first American space station from Kennedy Space Center in Florida In an -year-old white supremacist wearing body armor opened fire in a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo New York killing people before being taken into custody The gunman Payton Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without parole in February The present day s Birthdays Baseball Hall of Famer Tony P rez is Filmmaker George Lucas is Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is Musician David Byrne is Actor Tim Roth is Actor Cate Blanchett is Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is Former NFL running back Frank Gore is Actor Amber Tamblyn is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Former NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski is Actor Miranda Cosgrove is
