TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SUNDAY, MAY 14, the 134th day of 2017. There are 231 days left in the year. This is Mother’s Day.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1787, delegates began gathering at the State House in Philadelphia to draw up the United States Constitution. However, only delegates from Virginia and Pennsylvania had arrived by this time, and the convention did not achieve a quorum of seven states until May 25.
In 1643, Louis XIV became King of France at age four, upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.
In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest left camp near present-day Hartford, Ill.
In 1925, the Virginia Woolf novel “Mrs Dalloway” was first published in England and the United States.
In 1942, Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
In 1948, according to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv.
In 1955, representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland. The Pact was dissolved in 1991. In 1961, Freedom Riders were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.
In 1973, the United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station. The National Right to Life Committee was incorporated.
In 1987, actress Rita Hayworth died in New York at age 68.
In 1998, singer-actor Frank Sinatra died at a Los Angeles hospital at age
82. The hit sitcom “Seinfeld” aired its final episode after nine years on NBC.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Photo-realist artist Richard Estes is 85. Actress Sian Phillips is 84. Movie producer George Lucas is 73. Actress Meg Foster is
69. Movie director Robert Zemeckis is 66. Rock singer David Byrne is 65. Actor Tim Roth is 56. Rock singer Ian Astbury (The Cult), rock musician C.C. (aka Cecil) DeVille and actor Danny Huston are 55. Actress Cate Blanchett and singer Danny Wood (New Kids on the Block) are 48. Movie writer-director Sofia Coppola is 46. Actor Gabriel Mann is 45. Actress Carla Jimenez is 43. Rock musician Henry Garza (Los Lonely Boys) and alt-country musician-singer Ketch Secor are 39. Rock singer-musician Dan Auerbach is 38. Actress Amber Tamblyn is 34. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is 33. Actress Lina Esco is 32. Actress Miranda Cosgrove is 24.