Today in History - History - May 14th

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

1986Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's complete diary

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

1921Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliamentary seats

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

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

2005Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.

1835Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile

1903President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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