WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014

Today is Wednesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2014. There are 231 days left in the year.

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

1796 ― First smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner

1921 ― Florence Allen is first woman judge to sentence a man to death

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

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

1968 ― Czechoslovakian Government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek

1973 ― U.S. Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military

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