An expedition led by Captain Christopher Newport went ashore at Jamestown, Virginia on this day in 1607. The group had arrived at the location the day before. This became the first permanent English colony in America.
William Clark set off the famous expedition from Camp Dubois on this day in 1804. A few days later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis joined the group. The group was known as the "Corps of Discovery."
On this day in 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (R) proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end. U.S. President Harry S. Truman is on his left.
Skylab One was launched into orbit around Earth as the first U.S. manned space station on this day in 1973.
George Walton Lucas Jr. is 74 years old today. He was born in Modesto, California.
Sinatra died with his wife at his side at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, after a heart attack. Sinatra was in ill health during the last few years of his life, and was frequently hospitalized for heart and breathing problems, high blood pressure, pneumonia and bladder cancer. He was further diagnosed as having dementia. He had made no public appearances following a heart attack in February 1997