Once Upon A Time – May 14 – 1948 – Israel Declares Independence From British Administration

1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US Constitution

1796 English country doctor Edward Jenner administers his revolutionary cowpox-based vaccine for smallpox, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire

1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition commissioned by Thomas Jefferson sets out from St Louis for Pacific Coast

1948 Israel declares independence from British administration

Historical Events Today Events in 2023

Today in Film & TV

1998 Seinfeld’s final 2-part episode “The Finale” airs on NBC-TV to 76.3M viewers with commercials priced at $2M for 30 seconds

Today in Music

1832 Felix Mendelssohn’s concert overture “Hebrides” premieres in London, England

Today in Sport

1967 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Baltimore Oriole’s Stu Miller

1939 Lina Medina of Peru becomes the world’s youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five

1945 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge. Stevens lives another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human

Famous Weddings

1771 King of France Louis XVIII weds princess Maria Giuseppina of Savoy at the Palace of Versailles

1962 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain

1994 Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds television producer Darnay Hoffman (46) at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City

Pope John XII who died – some say he was murdered – on this day lived a life of sin, corruption and murder. But is his reputation as the worst pope deserved? – May 14, 964 AD