Teach Your Children

Karol Wojtyla, born on MAY 18, 1920, became the first non-Italian pope since 1522. "I say to you again, America, in the light of your own tradition: love life, cherish life, defend life, from conception to natural death."

John Jay - the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by George Washington, was also president of the American Bible Society in 1821 - died on MAY 17, 1829.

William Henry Seward - born MAY 16, 1801 - was wounded in an attempted assassination by an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth - the same night Lincoln was shot.

The first permanent English settlement in the New World began at Jamestown, Virginia, MAY 13, 1607. Plagued by hunger, malaria, exposure and Indian attacks, many of the 100 settlers sent out by the London Company died, including their minister Robert Hunt.