Today in History - History - May 14th

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

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

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

1978Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic

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

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

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

1643Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4

1961Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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