Daily Calendar for Thursday, May 14, 2026

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Henry John Heinz (founder of the H. J. Heinz Company) – 1919
Billie Burke (actress) – 1970
William Lear (inventor) – 1978
Rita Hayworth (actress) – 1987
Harry Blackstone Jr. (magician) – 1997
Frank Sinatra (singer & actor) – 1998
Robert Stack (actor) – 2003
Anna Lee (actress whose career in films and television spanned nearly 70 years) – 2004
Stanley Kunitz (United States poet laureate 2000-01, Pulitzer Prize winner) – 2006
B. B. King (blues legend) – 2015
Tim Conway (comedian & actor) – 2019
Grumpy Cat (feline celebrity with a grumpy expression) – 2019

Jamestown, Virginia, became the first permanent British settlement in North America – 1607
4-year-old Louis-Dieudonné (Louis XIV) became King of France – 1643
Lewis and Clark’s expedition left St. Louis for the West. The Corps of Discovery, as it was later to be called, originally included approximately 45 people. – 1804
34 cavalry disembarked at Indianola, Texas – 1856
Copyright registered for J. Phillip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever” march” – 1897
Carlsbad Caverns National Park was established in New Mexico. – 1930
The Sparrow and the Hawk, a serial for kids, was broadcast for the first time over CBS radio – 1945
President Eisenhower broke ground for the Lincoln Center – 1959
Mickey Mantle hit his 500th home run – 1967
First manned U.S. space station launched – 1973
The final episode of Seinfeld aired – 1998
Statue honoring the women athletes of the All-American Professional Baseball League installed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York – 2006
Racehorse Winning Brew ran 43.97 mph – 2008
Racehorse Winning Brew ran a quarter mile in 20.57 seconds at the Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania – 2008

Ten degrees below zero F at Climax, Colorado – 1896
The fourth-longest dry spell in Texas ended with 0.01 inch of rain in Brownsville – 1984