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May 14

4 sourced moments from May 14 in history: Jamestown colonists go ashore and begin building in Virginia (1607); Jenner's 1796 smallpox vaccine: why a farmer got there first; Israel Declares Independence (1948), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on May 14

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1973 Space · Space Exploration

Skylab launched in 1973 and was crippled within 63 seconds

America's first space station rode the last Saturn V to orbit in May 1973, losing its sunshield and a solar wing on the way up.

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1948 History · Modern

Israel Declares Independence

In a Tel Aviv museum hall, a single afternoon ceremony turned a contested British mandate into a sovereign Jewish state.

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1796 Human Body & Mind · Medicine & Disease

Jenner's 1796 smallpox vaccine: why a farmer got there first

Edward Jenner's 1796 cowpox experiment launched vaccination, but a Dorset farmer had done it 22 years earlier. Here is what Jenner actually added.

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1607 History · Modern

Jamestown colonists go ashore and begin building in Virginia

About a hundred English settlers waded onto a marshy island and started the first permanent English foothold in North America.

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