Today in History - History - May 14th

1920Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit

1995Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader

1986Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place

19891st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)

1944Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler

1925Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

1921Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliamentary seats

1967Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller

1961Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open

1913Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings

1984Mark Zuckerberg, White Plains, New York, American internet entrepreneur and founder of Facebook

1944George Lucas, Modesto CA, director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)

1994Software salesman Todd Beamer (25) weds Lisa Brosious in Peekskill, New York

1771King of France Louis XVIII weds princess Maria Giuseppina of Savoy at the Palace of Versailles

1991Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, commits suicide

1998Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, dies at 82

2015The Thrill is Gone, BB King, the King of Blues, dies at 89

2003Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player, dies of a heart attack at 62