Sophie Kurys was a former second basewoman who played from 1943 through 1952 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m), 115 lb (52 kg), Kurys batted and threw right-handed.

1925Patrice Munsel, American soprano and actress (died 2016)^[†]

Patrice Munsel was an American coloratura soprano. Nicknamed "Princess Pat", she was the youngest singer ever to star at the Metropolitan Opera.

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1925Mrs Dalloway, one of Virginia Woolf's earliest and best-known novels, was published.^[†]

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England.

Headlines from May 14, 1925

Florida Bachelor Pays $5 Tax; Puts Freedom at $500 a Year

NO MARKS ON BODY OF EXHUMED BABY; Nurse's Story That Child Died From Being Dashed Against Wall Disproved. 44 DEATHS IN INFANT FARMS Autopsy on Another Baby From Mrs. Geisen-Volk's Place to Be Made Today. NO MARKS ON BODY OF EXHUMED BABY

100 Persons Are Injured in Tokio Fires Which Destroyed 1,500 Buildings in Gale

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