This Day in History

For your entertainment and amusement.. on this day in:

• 1948 the nation of Israel was reborn;
  
  
• 1998 the last episode of Seinfeld was aired;
  
  
• 1944 Star Wars creator Gorge Lucas was born;
  
  
• 1969 actress Cate Blanchett was born;
  
  
• 1878 Vaseline Petroleum Jelly was trademarked in America;
  
  
• 1643 Louis XIV becomes the King of France at the age of four;
  
  
• 1936 singer Bobby Darin was born;
  
  
• 1796 Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccination;
  
  
• 1973 Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched;
  

And lastly.. in 1949.. in a hospital in New York City.. Kansas Bob arrived.