MAY 14
1948:David Ben-Gurion, head of the Jewish People’s Council and soon to be Israel’s first prime minister, declares the establishment of the state of Israel at a ceremony in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The next day, armies from Israel’s Arab neighbors will invade Israel, the first Jewish state in more than two millennia.
1607: Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the United States, is founded on the banks of Virginia’s James River by 104 colonists sent by the Virginia Company of London with a charter from King James I.
1804: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark depart from Camp Dubois, Ill., leading the Corps of Discovery, an overland expedition to explore the newly bought western lands of the Louisiana Purchase. They will reach the Pacific Ocean in November 1805 before making the return journey.
1607: Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the United States, is founded on the banks of Virginia’s James River by 104 colonists sent by the Virginia Company of London with a charter from King James I.
1804: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark depart from Camp Dubois, Ill., leading the Corps of Discovery, an overland expedition to explore the newly bought western lands of the Louisiana Purchase. They will reach the Pacific Ocean in November 1805 before making the return journey.
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