05-14-2006, 07:43 AM
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May 14th
1265 ~ Birthday of Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet.
1796 ~ Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccination.
1925 ~ Death of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
1944 ~ Birthday of George Lucas, film Director & Producer.
1948 ~ The independent state of Israel was proclaimed.
1955 ~ The USSR and seven other communist bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1973 ~ Skylab 1, the first American space station, was launched.
1978 ~ Death of Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia.
1998 ~ Death of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor.
2004 ~ Piers Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror for publishing photographs of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers that were shown to be fake.
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