MAY 14, 2020
Today is:
Dance Like a Chicken Day
National Buttermilk Biscuit Day |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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GEORGE LUCAS (1944) — American filmmaker & entrepreneur. Creator of Star Wars and co-creator of Indiana Jones. Founder of LucasFilm. |
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EOIN COLFER (1965) — Irish author, best known for the Artemis Fowl series. |
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MARK ZUCKERBERG (1984) — American computer programmer and entrepreneur. Co-founder of Facebook. |
TODAY IN HISTORY
1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony, becoming the first permanent English settlement in North America. | ![]() |
1796 – English physician Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. The disease will be officially deemed eradicated in 1980. | ![]() |
1804 – Wiliam Clark and the Corps of Discovery depart Camp Dubois, Illinois to meet Meriwether Lewis in St. Charles, Missouri, marking the beginning of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. | ![]() |
1948 – Israel is declared an independent state and a provisional government is established. It is immediately attacked by neighboring countries, igniting the Arab-Israeli War. | ![]() |
1973 – The United States’ first space station, Skylab, is launched. | ![]() |