From The Daily:

May 12, 1982

In a story titled, “Metro and UW Hospital clash over plans,” The Daily reported that a project plan had been presented that would add 205,800 square feet and 412 daytime employees to the University Medical Center. Community activists and local government officials criticized the plan, saying that the area around the hospital was already too congested. At the time, Montlake Boulevard was the second-most congested corridor in Washington, behind the West Seattle Bridge.

May 14, 1968

On this day, The Daily ran a story titled, “Vietnamese Poet Offers War Solution,” which reported that Buddhist monk and poet Thich Nhat Hanh had spoken on campus and recommended that the United States pull out of Vietnam. He said that if it did so, it would allow the Vietnamese to form a “non-communist, non-National Liberation Front” government, independent of interference from Washington. Hanh claimed that “Americans must realize they are facing a nationalistic, not a communistic, movement.”

Source: The Daily archives

Around the World:

May 13, 1607

Approximately 100 English colonists arrive in Virginia and found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. The settlers had left England aboard three ships: the Susan Constant, the Discovery and the Godspeed. Two weeks later, the settlers fell under attack from the nearby Algonquin Confederacy, a conflict which continued off and on until 1646, when the Confederacy was forced to give up its land to the expanding Jamestown settlement.

May 14, 1948

“We hereby proclaim the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine to be called Israel,” said David Ben-Gurion, Jewish Agency chairman and soon-to-be premier of Israel. The declaration established the first Jewish state in 2,000 years. Despite fighting that had broken out earlier that day between Jews and Arabs, immediately after the British army’s withdrawal from the area and a blackout in Tel Aviv, the Jewish people heartily celebrated the birth of their new nation. Forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invaded the next day.

May 15, 1800

On this day, President John Adams ordered the federal government to move from Philadelphia, Pa., to its new home in Washington, D.C. Congress and all federal offices were to be up and running by June 15. At that time, there were only about 125 federal employees. Philadelphia officially ceased serving as the nation’s capital on June 11, 1800.

May 17, 1954

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, stating that racial segregation in public education facilities was unconstitutional. In his opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren stated that the segregation was unconstitutional because it infers that black students were inherently inferior to white students.

SOURCE: HISTORY.COM/THIS-DAY-IN-HISTORY

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