SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2011

Today is Saturday, May 14, the 134th day of 2011. There are 231 days left in the year.

1607 _ First permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va.

1643 _ Louis XIV (4) becomes king of France

1796 _ First smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner

1945 _ Kamikaze-Zero strikes U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise

1948 _ P.M. David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel

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

1968 _ Czechoslovakian government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek

1973 _ Skylab launched, the first Space Station

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

1995 _ Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most senior spiritual leader