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100 years anniversary | ||||
14 May 1925 | Patrice Munsel: Spokane, Washington -- Soprano (Patrice Munsel Show) | |||
14 May 1925 | Tristram Ogilvie Cary: Composer | |||
14 May 1925 | Henry Rider Haggard: English writer (Dawn, She) | |||
14 May 1925 | Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published. | |||
14 May 1925 | H. Rider Haggard, English author and scholar (b. 1856) | |||
14 May 1925 | Al Porcino, American trumpet player (d. 2013) | |||
14 May 1925 | Boris Parsadanian, Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (d. 1997) | |||
14 May 1925 | Oona O'Neill, Bermudian-Swiss wife of Charlie Chaplin (d. 1991) | |||
14 May 1925 | Patrice Munsel, American soprano and actress | |||
14 May 1925 | Sophie Kurys, American baseball player (d. 2013) | |||
14 May 1925 | Patrice Munsel Spokane WA, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show) | |||
14 May 1925 | Tristram Ogilvie Cary composer | |||
14 May 1925 | Henry Rider Haggard English writer (Dawn, She), dies | |||
14 May 1925 |
birth Yuval Ne'eman Born 14 May 1925; died 26 Apr 2006 at age 80. Israeli theoretical physicist, who worked independently of Gell-Mann but almost simultaneously (1961) devised a method of grouping baryons in such a way that they fell into logical families. Now known as the Eightfold Way (after Buddha's Eightfold Path to Enlightenment and bliss), the scheme grouped mesons and baryons (e.g., protons and neutrons) into multiplets of 1, 8, 10, or 27 members on the basis of various properties. He had served as the head of his Israel's atomic energy commission, and founded the country's space program. |
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75 years anniversary | ||||
14 May 1950 | Mark Blum: Newark, New Jersey -- Actor (Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio) | |||
14 May 1950 | Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs | |||
14 May 1950 | Adolfo Domínguez, Spanish fashion designer | |||
14 May 1950 | birth Arthur Grant, drums, Edgar Broughton Band, (1970 UK No.39 single 'Out Demons Out'). | |||
14 May 1950 | Mark Blum Newark NJ, actor (Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio) | |||
14 May 1950 | Pittsburgh Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 homeruns | |||
14 May 1950 | RELIGIOUS | American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'To believe is to act as though a thing were so. Merely saying a thing is so is no proof of my believing it.' | ||
50 years anniversary | ||||
14 May 1975 | Carmen Klomp: Australian rower (1996 Olympics) | |||
14 May 1975 | Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II | |||
14 May 1975 | French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia | |||
14 May 1975 | US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship | |||
14 May 1975 | Nicki Sørensen, Danish cyclist | |||
14 May 1975 | Carmen Klomp Australian rower (Olympics-96) | |||
14 May 1975 | Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II | |||
14 May 1975 | French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia | |||
14 May 1975 | US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship | |||
14 May 1975 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |||
14 May 1975
Ernst Alexanderson |
death Ernst Alexanderson Ernst Alexanderson (b. 1878), Swedish American television pioneer. |
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25 years anniversary | ||||
14 May 2000 | Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937) | |||
14 May 2000 | Madison Avenue went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with, 'Don't Call Me Baby'. They were the first Australian group to have a UK No.1 since Men At Work in 1983. | |||
14 May 2000 | Tom Jones was at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Reload' making the singer the oldest artist to score a UK No.1 album with new material. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
14 May 2005 | A judge in Springfield, Massachusetts, ordered rapper 50 Cent to stay clean of drugs and take an anger management course to avoid spending time in jail. The rapper appeared in court charged with assaulting three women at a concert in 2004 after leaping into the crowd. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
14 May 2010 | Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918) | |||
14 May 2010 | Norman Hand, American football player (b. 1972) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
14 May 2015 | Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (b. 1953) | |||
14 May 2015 | Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937) | |||
14 May 2015 | Micheál O'Brien, Irish footballer and hurler (b. 1923) | |||
14 May 2015 | B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1925) | |||
14 May 2015 | Blues singer, songwriter and guitarist B.B. King died in his sleep aged 89 from a series of small strokes caused by type 2 diabetes. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential blues guitarists of all time, Rolling Stone magazine placed him behind only Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman in its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. |