What happened May 14th?:

1796 - 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner

1804 - Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast

1925 - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

1967 - Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller

1973 - Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London...Skylab launched, 1st Space Station...US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military...Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV

1989 - Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC

1998 - Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)

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Birthdays & other occasions:

1944 - George Lucas, Modesto CA, director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)

1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, dies at 82

To see more events that happened on May 14th, visit www.historyorb.com/day/may/14

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