Anyone who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, who bought out Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks from United Artists on May 14, 1939

More Samuel Goldwyn (attributed) quotations
That is the kind of ad I like. Facts, facts, facts.
I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Too caustic? To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
I read part of it all the way through.
God makes stars. I just produce them.

1692 Reverend Kirk and the Fairy Knowe
On May 14, Reverend Robert Kirk of Aberfoyle, Scotland (author of The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies), collapsed and died on a hill near his home, called the Fairy Knowe. After his funeral, Kirk appeared to a relative with a message for his cousin that he had been taken away by fairies, and held captive. He told his cousin, Graham of Duchray, that he would reappear at the christening of his posthumous child, and that Duchray should break the spell by throwing a knife over his head. When Kirk’s ghost appeared as predicted, his cousin was so upset he forgot to throw the knife, and Kirk’s ghost disappeared forever. Or, so it is said.

The legend grew up that Kirk could be freed if a child was born and christened at his manse, and a knife was stuck into the reverend gentleman’s chair at the christening. In the Aberfoyle district, Rev. Kirk is believed by many not to have died, but to have been taken into fairyland, where he lives today.

1796 British physician Edward Jenner carries out the first successful smallpox vaccination
On this day, Edward Jenner conclusively established the principles of vaccination. He wrote to his friend Gardner:

“A boy of the name of Phipps was inoculated in the arm, from a pustule on the hand of a young woman, who was infected by her master's cows. Having never seen the disease but in its casual way before, that is, when communicated from the cow to the hand of the milker, I was astonished at the close resemblance of the pustules, in some of their stages, to the variolous pustules. But now listen to the most delightful part of my story. The boy has since been inoculated for the small-pox, which, as I ventured to predict, produced no ill effect.”

Some physicians for a long time opposed vaccination: A Dr Smyth warned that vaccinated people caught cattle's diseases, or even became cow-like, and that small-pox was a visitation of God, and not to be treated; a Dr Ferdinand Smyth Stuart published a pamphlet showing Jenner as a monster with the horns of a bull.