05-14-2005, 05:50 AM
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May 14th
1265 ~ Birthday of Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet.
1787 ~ In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates began arriving to write a new Constitution for the United States.
1796 ~ Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccination.
1885 ~ Birthday of Otto Klemperer, Conductor.
1925 ~ Death of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
1944 ~ Birthday of George Lucas, film Director and Producer.
1955 ~ Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union signed a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1973 ~ Skylab, the first American space station, was launched.
1978 ~ Death of Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia
2004 ~ Piers Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror, when photographs that had been published in the newspaper of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers were proved to be fake.
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