On This Day:
Wednesday May 14, 2014 This is the 134th day of the year, with 231 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: ocean currents Ocean currents constitute the horizontal and vertical circulation system produced by gravity, wind friction, and water density variation in different parts of the ocean. The Coriolis forces, exerted by the rotating earth on all moving objects at or near its surface, cause ocean currents to move clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Holidays Feast day of St. Mary Mazzarello, St. Pontius of Cimiez, St. Carthage the Younger, St. Erembert, St. Matthias, St. Gemma Galgani, and St. Michael Garicoïts.
Events 1796 - Edward Jenner, an English doctor, administered the world's first vaccination to prevent smallpox.
1804 - Lewis and Clark began their expedition, heading out of St. Louis.
1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patented the chronograph.
1878 - The trademarked name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.
1897 - Guglielmo Marconi sent the first communication by wireless telegraph.
1897 - The first public performance of John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" occurred, in Philadelphia.
1904 - The first Olympic Games held in the United States began, in St. Louis.
1930 - The Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico was established.
1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established.
1948 - The independent state of Israel was proclaimed by Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion, in Tel Aviv.
1955 - Representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland.
1973 - The United States launched Skylab I, its first manned space station.
1980 - President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Health and Human Services.
1998 - After nine years on NBC, the hit TV series "Seinfeld" aired its final episode.
1999 - President Bill Clinton apologizes to Chinese President Jiang Zemin for the accidental NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, six days earlier.
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification by José Cardinal Saraiva Martins.
Births 1885 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor.
1936 - Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto), American singer.
1944 - Filmmaker George Lucas, in Modesto, California.
1952 - David Byrne, Scottish-born musician.
Deaths 1610 - French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre), assassinated by François Ravillac, a fanatical monk.
1987 - Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino), American actress.
1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate.
1998 - American singer and actor, Frank Sinatra, 82.
2003 - Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack), American stage and movie actor.
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