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• Today is Tuesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2013. There are 231 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 14, 1973, the United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station. (Skylab 1 remained in orbit for six years before burning up during re-entry in 1979.)
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• On this date:
• In 1643, Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
• In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.
• In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest left camp near present-day Hartford, Ill.
• In 1863, Union forces defeated the Confederates in the Battle of Jackson, Miss.
• In 1900, the Olympic games opened in Paris, held as part of the 1900 World's Fair.
• In 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation was founded in New York.
• In 1942, Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
• In 1948, according to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv.
• In 1961, Freedom Riders were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.
• In 1973, the National Right to Life Committee was incorporated.
• In 1988, 27 people, mostly teens, were killed when their church bus collided with a pickup truck going the wrong direction on a highway near Carrollton, Ky. (Truck driver Larry Mahoney served 9½ years in prison for manslaughter.)
• In 1998, singer-actor Frank Sinatra died at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82. The hit sitcom "Seinfeld" aired its final episode after nine years on NBC.
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