On this day, May 14

1837 All Pittsburgh banks suspended gold payments as the result of nationwide inflation caused by overexpansion of business and “disorderly currency.”

1971 A strike by pressmen at The Pittsburgh Press caused the city’s two daily newspapers, the Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, to stop publishing.

1996 Elsie Hillman announced plans to step down from the Republican National Committee after 21 years of service.

2008 The California Supreme Court declared same-sex couples in the state could marry — a victory for the gay rights movement that was overturned the following

November by the passage of Proposition 8, which was ultimately struck down by the courts.

— Compiled by Alyssa Brown Today’s birthdays: Photo-realist artist Richard Estes, 88. Actress Dame Sian Phillips, 87. Former Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.,, 78. Movie producer George Lucas, 76. Actress Meg Foster, 72. Movie director Robert Zemeckis, 69. Rock singer David Byrne, 68. Actor Tim Roth, 59. Actor Danny Huston, 58. Fabrice Morvan (ex-Milli Vanilli), 54. Actress Cate

Blanchett, 51. Movie writer-director Sofia Coppola, 49. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, 48. Actor Gabriel Mann, 48. Actress Carla Jimenez, 46. Actress Amber Tamblyn, 37. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, 36. Actress Lina Esco, 35. NFL player Rob Gronkowski, 31. Actress Miranda Cosgrove, 27.

Thought for today: “Silence cannot hide anything — which is more than you can say for words.”

— From the play “The Ghost Sonata”

by Swedish author-playwright August Strindberg (born 1849,

died this date in 1912)