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What happened in history on this day: May 14?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On May 14 in ...
- 1984 - Ashton-Tate introduces the dBase III relational database program for 16-bit IBM PC-compatible computers.
- 1991 - NeXT terminates the March 1989 sales agreement with Businessland.
- 1996 - Western Digital announces the 3.1 GB Caviar AC33100 hard drive, using the Enhanced IDE interface, with 12ms data access time. Volume production is scheduled for June, with a Fall release time and retail price of US$549.
- 2001 - Advanced Micro Devices introduces the Athlon 4 processor, at speeds ranging from 850 MHz to 1 GHz, with 256 kB integrated cache, 200 MHz system bus, PowerNow technology, and Streaming SIMD Extensions. The processor is made using a 0.18-micron manufacturing process. Code-name during development was Palomino.
- 2001 - Advanced Micro Devices announces 800 and 850 MHz Duron processors, with integrated cache, PowerNow technology, and Streaming SIMD Extensions. Code-name during development was Morgan.
- 2007 - Business Week magazine publishes an article listing the World's 25 Most Innovative Companies. Number 1 is Apple, number 5 is Microsoft, number 19 is Intel.
- 1923 - Walt writes to New York film distributor Margaret Winkler, looking for a distributor for his new Alice's Wonderland film.
- 1925 - Disney completes the 17th Alice Comedy film, Alice Stage Struck. The working title was Alice's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- 1928 - Universal Pictures releases the 20th Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film, Hungry Hoboes, to theaters.
- 1958 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled Magic Highway U.S.A..
- 1961 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, featuring "Andrews' Raiders, episode 2: Escape to Nowhere".
- 1972 - The first major auction of Disney memorabilia is held at Southeby's auction house in Los Angeles, California. The 170 items sold for a total US$15,000.
- 1978 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled Child of Glass.
- 1986 - The Land Grille Room restaurant opens in The Land pavilion in EPCOT Center.
- 1993 - Disney releases the laserdisc Disney's The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventures Volume 1 - Whale of a Tale / Stormy, the Wild Seahorse for US$30. It includes Whale of a Tale, Urchin, Stormy, The Great Sebastian.
- 1996 - Hollywood Pictures Home Video releases the film Powder on laserdisc for US$39.99.
- 1999 - Buena Vista releases the Dimension Films live-action feature film Twin Dragons - Shuanglong Hui to theaters in Great Britain.
- 1999 - Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures live-action feature film Endurance to theaters in the USA.
- 2005 - The Disney Magic leaves Port Canaveral, Florida, for its first westbound voyage through the Panama Canal.
- 2006 - The American Broadcasting Company airs the America's Funniest Home Videos TV show in the US. Disney characters (the type with people inside costumes) Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, and Pluto appear.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. In a law court, a lawyer holds a young deer on his lap and asks, "Now Bambi, who started that forest fire that killed your mama?".
- 2007 - Business Week magazine publishes an article listing the World's 25 Most Innovative Companies. Number 8 is the Walt Disney Company.
- 1964 - Ford and Chrysler resume support of stock car racing.
- 2006 - At the Phoenix International Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona, the GAINSCO Grand Prix race is held, round seven of the Grand American Rolex Series.
- Finishing 11th in GT class and 31st overall is the Banner Racing #6 Corvette, driven by Tim Gaffney and Leighton Reese.
- Finishing 13th in GT class and 34th overall is the Stevenson Motorsports #57 Corvette, driven by Vic Rice, Tommy Riggins, and John Stevenson.
- 1940 - (0700 hours) Fifteen French light tanks and infantry attack the German 1st Rifle Regiment bridgehead over the Meuse River around Bulson, France, about five miles south of Sedan.
- 1940 - German aircraft bomb Rotterdam city centre, Holland, killing hundreds, making thousands homeless. The British War Cabinet reacts by removing an order restraining aerial bombers from attacks near civilian areas.
- 1940 - German forces capture Sedan and Donchery.
- 1940 - Hong Kong authorities issue a reminder to women and children to register for evacuation in case of emergency.
- 1940 - British Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden broadcasts a call for Local Defence Volunteers.
- 1940 - Danish steamer Olympia unloads US$1 million of gold in Boston, Massachusettes.
- 1940 - In Great Britain, Lord Beaverbrook is appointed minister of aircraft production.
- 1940 - (afternoon) 63 British Battles bombers and eight Blenheim bombers make a series of raids on German bridgeheads over the Meuse River. 40 planes are shot down.
- 1940 - Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 11. Forces north of Liège to Namur are to hold down the greatest number of enemy forces. The Dutch Army is stronger than expected, and is to be broken quickly. Motorized divisions are to be transferred to Army Group A as soon as possible.
- 1940 - German tanks strike around Gembloux between Wavre on the Dyle River and Namur on the Meuse River.
- 1940 - (2000 hours) Netherlands Commander in Chief General Henri Gerard Winkelman orders the cessation of hostilities around Rotterdam and Utrecht. About 25,000 men of the army of 100,000 were killed in the fighting. Fighting in Zeeland is to continue.
- 1943 - The Trident Conference is held in Washington, US. Britain and the US agree for an invasion of France after May 1, 1944.
- 1943 - German submarine U-640 under commander Karl-Heinz Nagel is lost with all hands (49 dead).
- 1944 - A French corps in Italy under General Alphonse Juin breaks through German mountain defenses into the valley of Ausente River, forcing the German 71st Division to fall back.
- 1945 - A canister with microfilm of "the most secret archives" of Nazi Foreign Office is dug up by British and American officers near Mühlhausen in Thuringia. Included is a copy of the secret German-Soviet document of August 23, 1939, the original of which was destroyed during the war.
- 1945 - German submarine U-234 is intercepted by USS Sutton, and taken into captivity.
- 2007 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands, commemorates the attack of 1940 by German bomber planes with a display of spotlights outlining the destroyed portion of the city center.
- 1992 - Federal District Court Judge Fern Smith drops the remaining charges by Atari against Nintendo, based on the jury's finding that Atari did not suffer from Nintendo's licensing practices, and that it was not proven that Nintendo intended to monopolize the video game market.
- 1995 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A child says "I'll kick your butt... at Nintendo".
- 2001 - Nintendo releases The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons video game for the Game Boy Color in the US.
- 2001 - Nintendo releases The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages video game for the Game Boy Color in the US.
- 2002 - Sony CEA announces new US prices on the PS one (US$49) and PlayStation 2 (US$199).
- 2002 - Sony reduces the price of the PlayStation 2 in Japan to 29,000 yen (about US$235).
- 2003 - Microsoft drops the price of the Xbox in the US from US$199 to US$179.99.
- 2005 - Nintendo opens Nintendo World in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center in New York City.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A child plays a handheld video game resembling the Sony PlayStation Portable.
- 2008 - Microsoft reports total sales of the Xbox 360 video game system have reached 10 million, beating the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 to that sales level.
- 2011 - Sony begins bringing the PlayStation Network back online.
- 1957 - The Gripsholm ship of the Swedish America Line makes its maiden voyage from Göteborg to New York, USA.
- 2001 - In Stockholm, King Carl Gustaf presents the Polar Music Prize to Burt Bacharach, Robert Moog, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Polar Music Prize is an award of the Swedish Academy of Music.
- 1851 - Francis Hincks writes again to the British Treasury, again stating reasons why Canada should issue its own decimal currency.
- 1910 - The Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent.
- 1965 - John Diefenbaker unveils the Fantasy Copper monument at the Canadian Centennial Numismatic Park, in Sudbury, Ontario. The monument is modelled after a 1965 1c coin, one foot thick with a ten foot diameter and ten foot base.
- 1861 - US President Abraham Lincoln appoints James Pollock as Mint Director.
- 1885 - Coin dealer J.W. Scott purchases an 1804 Draped Bust dollar coin for James V. Dexter from the Chapman brothers for US$1000.
- 1934 - Congress authorizes 1936 Arkansas Centennial commemorative half dollar program, up to 500,000 coins.
- 1937 - The third San Francisco Mint opens for business.
- 2009 - The US Mint launches the 2009 Lincoln, Formative Years, cent in Lincoln City, Indiana.
- 2010 - Rare Coin Wholesalers of California sells a USA 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar coin graded SP-66 PCGS, possibly first coin struck at Philaelphia Mint, to Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation of California for US$7.85 million. The price is a new world record for a single US coin.
- 1874 - Harvard beats University of McGill (Montréal) in football, 3-0.
- 1885 - 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37.25.
- 1886 - 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36.5.
- 1888 - 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.25.
- 1890 - 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45.
- 1905 - Second official international soccer match, Netherlands beats Belgium 4-0.
- 1906 - Flagpole at the Chicago White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising.
- 1913 - Washington Senators' player Walter Johnson ends record scoreless streak at 56 innings.
- 1914 - Chicago Cubs' pitcher Jim Scott no-hits Cleveland Naps, gives up two hits in 10th and loses 1-0.
- 1918 - Cleveland Indians' Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19).
- 1918 - Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington DC.
- 1919 - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53.
- 1920 - New York Giants inform New York Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season.
- 1920 - Washington Senators' Walter Johnson wins his 300th game versus Detroit Tigers.
- 1927 - 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06.
- 1938 - 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8.
- 1938 - English soccer team beats Germany, 6-3.
- 1940 - Boston Bees' Jimmie Foxx's homerun goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof.
- 1949 - 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56.
- 1950 - Pittsburgh Pirates' Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including two homeruns.
- 1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open.
- 1972 - In Willie Mays' first game as a New York Mets player, his homer beats the San Francisco Giants, 5-4.
- 1975 - Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II.
- 1977 - English football international' Bobby Moore retires.
- 1977 - Kansas City Royals' Jim Colborn no-hits the Texas Rangers, 6-0.
- 1977 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in four games.
- 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic.
- 1980 - Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II.
- 1980 - Bucky Dent hits an inside the park homerun, Kansas City Royals walk 14 New York Yankees including five with bases loaded, New York Yankees win 16-3.
- 1981 - 35th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2.
- 1983 - Rosa Mota runs female world record 20km (1:06:55.5).
- 1986 - Reggie Jackson hits his 537th homerun passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place on the Major League Baseball all-time homerun list.
- 1988 - First non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he and Saint Louis Cardinals lose to the Atlanta Braves 7-5 in 19 innings.
- 1988 - Wimbledon wins the English FA Cup after beating Liverpool 1-0 at Wembley.
- 1989 - First Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
- 1989 - First time since 1948 a Major league baseball player hits six consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett).
- 1989 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic.
- 1990 - 46th time opposing pitchers hit homerun, Valenzuela (Los Angeles Dodgers)/Gross (Montreal Expos).
- 1992 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll.
- 1994 - Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617.
- 1994 - FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London.
- 1995 - 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins.
- 1995 - Eddie Murray of Cleveland Indians hits his 463rd career homerun (ties for 18th).
- 1996 - New York Yankees pitcher Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0.
- 1997 - Baseball's Exec Council suspends New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
- 2002 - At the Latino-American Stadium, former US President Jimmy Carter throws the ceremonial first pitch of the Cuban League All-Star game. In warming up, Carter is coached by one-time big league pitching prospect, Fidel Castro.
- 2008 - In Manchester, England, the final game of the UEFA Cup of soccer is held. Russia's Zenit St. Petersburg defeats Scotland's Glasgow Rangers 2-0.
- 2022 - At Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, NHL Western Conference 1st Round, game 7: Edmonton Oilers defeats Los Angeles Kings by score 2-0, winning series 4-3.
- 2022 - At Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, NHL Eastern Conference 1st Round, game 7: Tampa Bay Lightning defeats Toronto Maple Leafs by score 2-1, winning series 4-3.
- 2022 - At PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, NHL Eastern Conference 1st Round, game 7: Carolina Hurricanes defeats Boston Bruins by score 3-2, winning series 4-3.
- 2022 - At Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Philadelphia Phillies beats Los Angeles Dodgers by score 8-3.
- 2022 - At Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Colorado Rockies beats Kansas City Royals by score 10-4.
- 2022 - At Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Chicago Cubs beats Arizona Diamondbacks by score 4-2.
- 2022 - At Citi Field in New York City, New York, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: New York Mets beats Seattle Mariners by score 5-4.
- 2022 - At Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Chicago White Sox beats New York Yankees by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Cleveland Guardians beats Minnesota Twins by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Washington Nationals beats Houston Astros by score 13-6.
- 2022 - At Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Boston Red Sox beats Texas Rangers by score 11-3.
- 2022 - At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Pittsburgh Pirates beats Cincinnati Reds by score 3-1.
- 2022 - At Tropicana Field in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Toronto Blue Jays beats Tampa Bay Rays by score 5-1.
- 2022 - At LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida, USA , Major League Baseball regular season game: Miami Marlins beats Milwaukee Brewers by score 9-3.
- 2022 - At Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Detroit Tigers beats Baltimore Orioles by score 3-0.
- 2022 - At RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season doubleheader game 1: Oakland Athletics beats Los Angeles Angels by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season doubleheader game 2: Los Angeles Angels beats Oakland Athletics by score 9-1.
- 2022 - At Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Atlanta Braves beats San Diego Padres by score 6-5.
- 2022 - At Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Saint Louis Cardinals beats San Francisco Giants by score 4-0.
- 1935 - Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, third in US.
- 1973 - Skylab launched, the first Space Station.
- 1981 - NASA launches space vehicle S-192.
- 2008 - NASA announces the discovery of Supernova remnant G1.9+0.3.
- 2009 - An Ariane 5 rocket blasts off from Kourou in French Guiana, carrying Europe's Herschel and Planck telescopes into space. The satellites will gather new insights into the nature of the cosmos. The combined program cost US$2.5 billion.
- 2009 - Astronauts from space shuttle Atlantis outfit the Hubble Space Telescope with a new wide field camera that will allow astronomers to capture images of objects formed as early as 500 million years after the birth of the universe.
- 2010 - The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to deliver a Russian module and spare parts to the International Space Station.
- 2021 - The China National Space Administration lands its Zhurong rover at Utopia Planitia on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet and only the second to land a rover.
- 1801 - Albert Gallatin takes office as US Treasury Secretary.
- 1804 - The Meriwether Lewis and William Clark expedition of about 45 men leaves Saint Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
- 1861 - US President Abraham Lincoln appoints James Pollock to be Mint director.
- 1863 - Battle of Jackson, Mississippi.
- 1864 - William N Green Junior, USA Brigadier-General, dies.
- 1864 - Battle of Reseca, Atlanta, Georgia (second day).
- 1884 - Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US.
- 1908 - First passenger flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, by Wilbur Wright as pilot, with Charles Furnas as passenger.
- 1927 - "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie.
- 1935 - Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, third in US.
- 1935 - Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement.
- 1942 - US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded.
- 1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.
- 1945 - US offensive on Okinawa; Sugar Loaf conquered.
- 1948 - US President Harry Truman recognizes the state of Israel.
- 1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
- 1949 - US President Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral.
- 1955 - US performs nuclear test in Pacific Ocean.
- 1961 - Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama, USA.
- 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island.
- 1964 - Underground America Day is first observed.
- 1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1969 - Last Chevrolet Corvair car built.
- 1970 - Police kill two students in racial disturbance (Jackson State University, Mississippi).
- 1970 - Harry A Blackmun appointed to the US Supreme Court.
- 1972 - 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner and Jean Stapleton.
- 1973 - Skylab launched, the first Space Station.
- 1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military.
- 1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, six killed.
- 1975 - US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship.
- 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1984 - 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama wins.
- 1984 - Ashton-Tate introduces the dBase III relational database program for 16-bit IBM PC-compatible computers.
- 1987 - Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for US$242,000.
- 1988 - Near Carrollton, Kentucky, a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27.
- 1991 - Robert M Gates becomes 15th director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1997 - The Star Alliance is formed between Air Canada, Lufthansa, SAS, Thai Airways International and United Airlines.
- 2004 - Two US Marines are sentenced to prison for electrocuting an Iraqi prisoner a month earlier.
- 2007 - A meteor likely causes a 2.1-magnitude earthquake in Hubbardton, Vermont, USA.
- 2008 - The U.S. government lists polar bears as a threatened species under its Endangered Species Act because of the effects of global warming.
- 2008 - Price of a gallon of regular gasoline hits a US record $4 (on average) in Alaska.
- 2009 - Chrysler eliminates 789 car dealerships in the US.
- 2010 - Rare Coin Wholesalers of California sells a USA 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar coin graded SP-66 PCGS, possibly the first coin struck at the Philadelphia Mint, to Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation of California for US$7.85 million. The price is a new world record for a single US coin.
- 2010 - The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to deliver a Russian module and spare parts to the International Space Station.
- 2018 - The US Supreme Court strikes down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, which banned traditional sports betting outside of Nevada.
- 2022 - A teenager shoots and kills ten people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
Other history:
- 1607 - First permanent English settlement in New World (Jamestown, Virginia).
- 1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel.
- 1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
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