Today in History - History - May 14th

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

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

199541st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins

1997Baseball's Exec Council suspends NY Yank owner George Steinbrenner

1925Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

1643Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4

1998Last episode of seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)

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

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

1995Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th)

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

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

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

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

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