WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008

Today is Wednesday, May 14, the 135th day of 2008. There are 231 days left in the year.

1787 _ Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up U.S. constitution

1796 _ First smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner

1918 _ Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington D.C.

1941 _ 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested

1948 _ U.S. grants Israel de facto recognition

1955 _ Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania

1962 _ Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain

1966 _ ``A Lover's Concerto" by Miller hits No. 1

1989 _ Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square

1995 _ Dalai Lama proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most senior spiritual leader