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