MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012

Today is Monday, May 14, the 135th day of 2012. There 231 days left in the year.

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

1796 ― First smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner

1800 ― Friedrich von Schiller's ``Macbeth" premieres in Weimar

1842 ― First edition of London Illustrated News

1908 ― First passenger flight in an airplane

1948 ― U.S. grants Israel de facto recognition

1949 ― Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral

1955 ― U.S. performs nuclear test in Pacific Ocean

1961 ― Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama

1969 ― Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada