May 14th

1607, colonists travel ashore to Virginia to begin building Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the [-----1-----].

1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark leave Saint Louis on their expedition to explore the Louisiana territory in what’s then[-----2-----].

1948, in Tel Aviv, the independent State of Israel, the World’s only Jewish state is [-----3-----], as British rule in what’s then known as Palestine, comes to an end.

1973, NASA launches Skylab, America’s first man space station [-----4-----] from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1944, movie producer George Lucas, whose films include the Star War series and American Graffiti is born in Modesto California.

1998, singer and actor Frank Sinatra, also known as the Ol' Blue Eyes and [-----5-----]dies in Los Angeles at age 82.

Today In History, May 14th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.