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- 1264 - King Henry III was captured in the Battle of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1796 - Edward Jenner began testing cowpox as a vaccine for protection against smallpox.
- 1804 - William Clark and Meriwether Lewis left Camp Dubois and began traveling up the Missouri River.
- 1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel in Tel Aviv.
- 1973 - The NASA space station Skylab (pictured) was launched from Cape Canaveral.