🔬 Jenner gives the first vaccination (1796)
Where: Berkeley, England
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📅 On This Day: May 14
May 14, 1796: Jenner gives the first vaccination. On this day in 1796, Dr. Edward Jenner of Berkeley, England, gave eight-year-old James Phipps material from cowpox, a mild cow disease caught by a milkmaid. The boy was then protected from deadly smallpox. The word 'vaccine' even comes from the Latin word for cow, vacca.
✨ More events on this day
- 1804 🧭 William Clark and his team left Camp Dubois to begin the Lewis and Clark Expedition, a journey to explore the American West all the way to the Pacific.
- 1973 🚀 NASA launched Skylab, America's first space station, where three crews of astronauts later lived and studied the Sun and Earth. Kennedy Space Center →
- 2021 🚀 China landed its first Mars rover, Zhurong, named after a fire god, which drove across the dusty red plains studying rocks and soil.
🧠 Question of the day
The word 'vaccine' comes from which animal?
- Chicken
- Cow
- Horse
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Answer: Cow
🎂 Landmarks that opened on May 14
Questions
What happened on May 14?
May 14, 1796: Jenner gives the first vaccination. It happened in Berkeley, England.
Which landmarks opened on May 14?
Griffith Observatory (opened 1935).
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