Today is Monday, May 14, the 134th day of 2007. There are 231 days left in the year. On this date in 1607, English colonists go ashore in Virginia to begin building a permanent settlement, named

Today is Monday, May 14, the 134th day of 2007. There are 231 days left in the year. On this date in 1607, English colonists go ashore in Virginia to begin building a permanent settlement, named Jamestown after England's King James I.
In 1643, Louis XIV becomes King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XV. In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner administers the first vaccination against smallpox to 8-year-old James Phipps by using cowpox matter. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory leaves St. Louis. In 1900, the Olympic games open in Paris, held as part of the 1900 World's Fair. In 1973, the United States launches Skylab I, its first manned space station. In 1975, U.S. forces raid the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recapture the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members had already been released safely by Cambodia, but some 40 U.S. servicemen are killed in the military operation. In 1987, actress Rita Hayworth dies in New York at age 68. In 1998, singer-actor Frank Sinatra dies at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82.
May 14, 1982: Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. says he will seek additional charges in connection with an alleged parking scam at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Air Force Major Gen. Robert C. Taylor, the force's second in command, tells the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce that U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf are being protected against Soviet aggression by the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, which comprises 229,000 military personnel throughout the world. He says the United States must be prepared to offer diplomatic efforts, money and military aid to friendly nations to protect much-needed oil supplies.
May 14, 1967: In a one year experiment, four State Highway Patrolmen have logged 136,357 miles patrolling an eight-mile, high-accident stretch of state Route 18, and have written 6,125 citations The Route 18-Raccoon Road intersection has dropped from the ninth most dangerous in the state to the 37th.
Opponents of the Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway are waging a desperate campaign of half-truths and distortions in an attempt to hold off construction work, presuming that once Youngstown's Michael J. Kirwan is out of Congress, they will be able to kill the project. Kirwan is 80.
May 14, 1957: The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approves opening three branch campuses, at Marion, Norwalk and Mansfield.
The J.C. Penney Co. begins a 100,000 modernization of its downtown Youngstown store. Charles W. Colson, manager, says the store will be the most modern department store in the area.
The Ohio Senate kills a bill that would have required all sections of the state to conform to a uniform time. Northeastern counties adopt Daylight Savings Time, but much of the state doesn't.
May 14, 1932: Joseph C. Hostetler, prominent Cleveland lawyer and a member of the firm of Baker, Hostetler, Sidle and Patterson, will be the principal speaker at the Youngstown Community Fund dinner at the Youngstown YMCA.
Ohio Gov. George White will call a third extraordinary session of the Ohio General Assembly to consider the matter of salary adjustments for public officials and employees throughout the state.