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Japanese banks are promoting women to upper management levels for the first time in history; four women in the nation's top three banks have been promoted in the last year
More Notable Events on May 14: 1973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1948 Israel declares independence from British administration
1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast
