Today in History: May 14, Jamestown becomes North America’s first English settlement

The present day is Wednesday May the th day of There are days left in the year In the current era in history On May Jamestown the first permanent English settlement in North America was established by members of the Virginia Company Also on this date In the Lewis and Clark expedition organized to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest began its journey near present-day Hartford Illinois Related Articles Three climbers fell feet to their death One climber survived and drove to a pay phone New Jersey says chemical maker M agrees to forever chemical settlement worth up to M People are going to die if Republican Medicaid cuts pass Healey warns Judge strips NYC of full authority over Rikers Island citing unprecedented violence MLB reinstates Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson making them Hall of Fame eligible In English physician Edward Jenner successfully inoculated -year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter Smallpox would be declared the first fully eradicated human condition in In the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv by David Ben-Gurion who became its first prime minister In representatives from eight Communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland The pact was dissolved in In Freedom Rider civil rights activists were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham Alabama In NASA launched Skylab the first American space station from Kennedy Space Center in Florida In an -year-old white supremacist wearing body armor opened fire in a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo New York killing people before being taken into custody The gunman Payton Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without parole in February In the modern day s Birthdays Baseball Hall of Famer Tony P rez is Filmmaker George Lucas is Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is Musician David Byrne is Actor Tim Roth is Actor Cate Blanchett is Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is Former NFL running back Frank Gore is Actor Amber Tamblyn is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Former NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski is Actor Miranda Cosgrove is