Daily Calendar for May 14th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1600s

• 1607: Jamestown, Virginia, became the first permanent British settlement in North America

1640s

• 1643: At four years old, Louis XIV became King of France

1680s

• Born 1686: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (physicist)

1800s

• 1804: 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.

1850s

• 1856: 34 cavalry disembarked at Indianola, Texas

1890s

• 1897: Copyright registered for J. Phillip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" march

1910s

• Died 1919: Henry John Heinz (founder of the H. J. Heinz Company)

1930s

• Born 1936: Bobby Darin (singer)

1940s

• Born 1944: George Lucas (filmmaker)

• 1945: The Sparrow and the Hawk, a serial for kids, was broadcast for the first time over CBS radio

1950s

• Born 1952: David Byrne (musician)

• 1959: President Eisenhower broke ground for the Lincoln Center

1960s

• Born 1969: Cate Blanchett (actress)

1970s

• Died 1970: Billie Burke (actress)

• 1973: First manned U.S. space station launched

• Died 1978: William Lear (inventor)

1980s

• Born 1983: Amber Tamblyn (actress)

• Died 1987: Rita Hayworth (actress)

1990s

• Born 1993: Miranda Cosgrove (actress)

• Died 1997: Harry Blackstone Jr. (magician)

• Died 1998: Frank Sinatra (singer & actor)

• 1998: The final episode of Seinfeld aired

2000s

• Died 2003: Robert Stack (actor)

• Died 2004: Anna Lee (actress whose career in films and television spanned nearly 70 years)

• Died 2006: Stanley Kunitz (United States poet laureate (2000-01), Pulitzer Prize winner)

• 2006: Statue honoring the women athletes of the All-American Professional Baseball League installed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York

• 2008: 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

2010s

• Died 2015: B. B. King (blues legend)

• Died 2019: Tim Conway (comedian & actor)

• Died 2019: "Grumpy Cat" (feline celebrity with a grumpy expression)