Thursday, May 13, 2010

14 May in History

1607--Jamestown, Virginia is first settled.

1804--The Lewis and Clark Expedition into the Louisiana Territory begins.

1948--The state of Israel declares independence.  The 1948 Arab-Israeli war begins.

1955--The Warsaw Pact is formed by the U.S.S.R. and its subject states in Eastern Europe.

1973--Skylab is launched by NASA.

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