Today is Thursday, May 14, the 134th day of 2009. There are 231 days left in the year.
1787 _ Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up U.S. constitution
1811 _ Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day)
1878 _ Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1908 _ First passenger flight in an airplane
1921 _ Florence Allen is first woman judge to sentence a man to death
1945 _ Kamikaze-Zero strikes U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise
1948 _ U.S. grants Israel de facto recognition
1986 _ Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
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