Today in History for 14th May 2014

Historical Events

1892 - Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem

1913 - Frans Hals museum opens in Haarlem, Netherlands

1918 - Sunday baseball is made legal in Washton, DC

1932 - "We Want Beer!" parade in NY

1970 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin

1990 - 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)

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Famous Birthdays

1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)

1917 - Herta Ryder, literary agent

1922 - Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician (d. 1999)

1965 - Eoin Colfer, Irish writer

1968 - Hiroshi Matsuura, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)

1972 - Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician

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Famous Deaths

1833 - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88

1847 - Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer, dies at 41

1940 - Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49

1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)

1997 - Laurie Lee, writer, dies at 82

1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)

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