This day in history - May 14

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1767 - The British government revoked the import duty on tea that had led to the Boston Tea Party. The tax had never been collected effectively.

1787 - The Constitutional Convention was supposed to meet in Philadelphia, but delegates were delayed by slow travel.

1796 - Edward Jenner vaccinated a boy against smallpox by using the cowpox virus.

1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition set out from St. Louis, at that time the western outpost of American civilization.

1908 - The world’s first airplane passenger was carried in a Wright flyer.

1948 - The state of Israel came into existence.

1949 - Pres. Truman signed a bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral.

1955 - The Warsaw Pact was signed.

1973 - The United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station.

- Jim