Today in History - History - May 14th

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

1972In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4

1835Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile

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

1925Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

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

1921Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliamentary seats

1961Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open

199541st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins

1949Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral

1969Cate Blanchett, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian actress (Elizabeth, Galadriel-The Lord of the Rings)

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

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

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

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

1919Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company, dies at 74