Today is Wednesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2025 with 231 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Mars.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include artist Thomas Gainsborough in 1727; actor Richard Deacon in 1921; opera star Patrice Munsel in 1925; musician Bobby Darin in 1936; Baseball Hall of Fame member Tony Perez in 1942 (age 83); musician Jack Bruce (Cream) in 1943; filmmaker George Lucas in 1944 (age 81); filmmaker Robert Zemeckis in 1952 (age 73); musician David Byrne (Talking Heads) in 1952 (age 73); Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in 1953 (72); actor Tim Roth in 1961 (age 64); musician C.C. DeVille (Poison) in 1962 (age 63); actor Danny Huston in 1962 (age 63); writer Eoin Colfer in 1965 (age 60); musician Mike Inez (Alice in Chains) in 1966 (age 59); musician Fabrice Morvan (Milli Vanilli) in 1966 (age 59); musician Raphael Saadiq (Tony! Toni! Toné!) in 1966 (age 59); comedian/actor Greg Davies in 1968 (age 57); actor Cate Blanchett in 1969 (age 56); musician Danny Wood (New Kids on the Block) in 1969 (age 56); filmmaker Sofia Coppola in 1971 (age 54); musician Natalie Appleton (All Saints) in 1973 (age 52); musician Henry Garza (Los Lonely Boys) in 1978 (age 47); musician Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show) in 1978 (age 47); musician Dan Auerbach (Black Keys) in 1979 (age 46); musician Mike Retondo (Plain White T's) in 1981 (age 44); comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes in 1982 (age 43); actor/writer Amber Tamblyn in 1983 (age 42); entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg in 1984 (age 41); musician Dustin Lynch in 1985 (age 40); former NFL player Clay Matthews III in 1986 (age 39); TV personality/former NFL player Rob Gronkowski in 1989 (age 36); actor Miranda Cosgrove in 1993 (age 32).
On this date in history:
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In 1643, King Louis XIV, who would be known as "The Sun King," became ruler of France at the age of 4.
In 1796, Dr. Edward Jenner, a rural England physician, tested his smallpox vaccine. It was a success.
In 1804, one year after the United States doubled its territory with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition left St. Louis on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
In 1904, the Olympic Games were conducted in the United States for the first time -- in St. Louis.
In 1930, the U.S. Congress passed legislation establishing Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico with support from President Calvin Coolidge. It was the 21st park in the national parks system.
In 1942, the U.S. Congress established the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps for World War II duty.
In 1948, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years.
In 1973, the United States launched Skylab, its first manned orbiting laboratory. Skylab was in orbit until -- long abandoned -- it plunged to Earth July 11, 1979, scattering debris over the Indian Ocean and a remote area of western Australia.
In 1988, a church bus was hit by a pickup truck going the wrong way on a road near Carrollton, Ky. The collision killed 27 bus passengers, mostly teenagers. The pickup driver, intoxicated at the time of the crash, served less than 11 years in prison.
In 1992, Lyle Alzado, NFL lineman-turned-actor/businessman, died of brain cancer, which he had blamed on steroid abuse. He was 43.
In 2000, hundreds of thousands of mothers and other gun-control advocates took part in the "Million Mom March" in Washington and several other cities, demanding "sensible" gun laws and mourning the loss of children to firearms violence.
In 2008, the polar bear was chosen for the endangered species list by the U.S. Commerce Department because of shrinkage in its sea-ice habitat blamed on global climate change.
In 2013, Brazil became the 15th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
In 2022, a self-avowed white supremacist opened fire at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., killing 10 people, all of whom were Black. The shooter was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences.
In 2024, Google introduced at its annual I/O conference its new AI-generated search engine results called AI Overviews. The overviews appear automatically at the top of all search queries on the website despite researchers finding it gives bad advice and inaccurate information.
A thought for the day: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said, "We understand the great arc of human history bends towards people coming together in ever greater numbers -- from tribes to cities to nations -- to achieve things we couldn't on our own."
