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137,892 People

Natural disasters in 1979 * Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado People who died on May 14 (various years) * 2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter * 2006 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress * 2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet * 2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader * 2004 - Anna Lee, British actress * 2003 - Robert Stack, American actor * 2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress * 2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player * 2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan * 1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist * 1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor * 1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician * 1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate * 1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate * 1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal * 1992 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader * 1992 - Lyle Alzado, American football player * 1991 - Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong * 1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands * 1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress * 1985 - Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress * 1984 - Walter Rauff, German colonel * 1983 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico * 1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge * 1982 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor * 1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia * 1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) * 1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet * 1970 - Billie Burke, American actress * 1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer * 1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral * 1962 - Florence Auer, American actress * 1959 - Sidney Bechet, American musician * 1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist * 1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General * 1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * 1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate * 1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist * 1936 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general * 1934 - Lou Criger, American baseball player * 1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter * 1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer * 1925 - H. Rider Haggard, English author * 1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister * 1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company * 1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher * 1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish author * 1912 - Frederick VIII of Denmark * 1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman * 1893 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician * 1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician * 1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher * 1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration * 1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer * 1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer * 1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist * 1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist * 1761 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician * 1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer * 1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer * 1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer * 1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian * 1643 - Louis XIII of France * 1610 - Henry IV of France * 1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine * 1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru * 1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden * 964 - Pope John XII

Monday, May 14, 1979 Top News Headlines This Week: May 16 - FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel May 16 - National League approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19 million May 16 - NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M May 17 - Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation May 17 - Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 homeruns May 17 - -12øF (-11øC), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record) Top Songs for 1979 I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor Bad Girls by Donna Summer Hot Stuff by Donna Summer Ring My Bell by Anita Ward Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? by Rod Stewart My Sharona by The Knack Babe by Styx Reunited by Peaches & Herb Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes Too Much Heaven by Bee Gees 1979 Prices US President Milk: $1.50/gal Jimmy Carter Eggs: $1.32/doz US Vice President Car: $6,847 Walter F. Mondale Gas: $0.88/gal Academy Award Winners House: $71,800 Best Picture: Kramer Vs. Kramer Directed By Robert Benton Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman in Kramer Vs. Kramer Best Actress: Sally Field in Norma Rae People born on May 14 1952 - David Byrne Dunbartin Scotand, rock guitarist/singer (Talking Heads-Psycho Killer) 1944 - George Lucas Modesto CA, director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) 1943 - Elizabeth Ray Marshall NC, congressman Wilbur Mills' lover 1925 - Patrice Munsel Spokane WA, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show) On TV in 1979 Charlie's Angels Three's Company CHiPs Taxi Alice WKRP in Cincinnati Soap Dallas Mork & Mindy Laverne & Shirley Hot New Toys in 1979 Big Boggle Star Trek: The Motion Picture figures Big Trak Sea Wees Electronic Perfection Intellivision Strawberry Shortcake dolls Top Books in 1979 The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Sophie's Choice by William Styron The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris