May 7
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May 7 is the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 238 days remaining after May 7 until the end of the year.
[change] Events
- 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
- 1429 – Joan of Arc leads a French attack on English bridgeheads on the south side of the Loire River.
- 1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
- 1664 – The Palace of Versailles is inaugurated by Louis XIV of France.
- 1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed in a huge fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced with the current Royal Palace).
- 1763 – Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
- 1824 – Ludwig van Beethoven, completely deaf, conducts the debut of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna.
- 1832 – Greece was recognised independent by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
- 1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
- 1847 – In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
- 1895 – In Saint Petersburg a Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrated an invention which became the prototipe of radio. In the former Soviet Union this day was selebrated as Day of Radio.
- 1896 – H. H. Holmes is hanged in Philadelphia.
- 1915 – World War I: a German U-boat sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people.
- 1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: Polish-Ukrainian troops captured Kyiv during the Kiev Offensive.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrive in Spain to assist Franco's forces.
- 1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document will take effect the next day.
- 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.
- 1947 – Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years.
- 1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
- 1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
- 1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
- 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
- 1974 – Willy Brandt resigns as Chancellor of Germany.
- 1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay rise.
- 1992 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage.
- 1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first fast-food murder in Canada.
- 1995 – Jacques Chirac is elected President of France.
- 1998 – Apple Computer unveils the iMac.
- 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
- 1999 – Pope John Paul II travells to Romania becoming the first pope that had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
- 1999 – A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family US$25 million.
- 1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
- 1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
- 2000 – Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia.
- 2002 – A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea killing 112 people.
- 2007 – The tomb of King Herod the Great, who is mentioned in the Bible, is discovered.
- 2008 – Dmitry Medvedev becomes President of Russia, with Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister.
- 2010 – Scientists working on the Neanderthal Genome Project announce that modern humans and Neanderthals could have interbred.
- 2012 – Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia for a second time, swapping places with Dmitry Medvedev, who becomes Prime Minister.
[change] Births
- 1605 – Patriarch Nikon of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
- 1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
- 1748 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)
- 1763 – Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince (d. 1813)
- 1767 – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820)
- 1812 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
- 1819 – Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1905)
- 1826 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906)
- 1833 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
- 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
- 1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister (d. 1929)
- 1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet and writer of the Bengali language (d. 1941)
- 1867 – Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer (d. 1925)
- 1892 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
- 1892 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet and politician (d. 1982)
- 1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
- 1909 – Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991)
- 1911 – Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993)
- 1919 – Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
- 1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter
- 1931 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007)
- 1936 – Tony O'Reilly, Irish billionaire
- 1939 – Sidney Altman, Canadian molecular biologist
- 1939 – Ruud Lubbers, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- 1939 – Jimmy Ruffin, American singer
- 1943 – Peter Carey, Australian author
- 1946 – Michael Rosen, English poet and writer
- 1946 – Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (The Grateful Dead)
- 1947 – Gary R. Herbert, American politician
- 1948 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (d. 2009)
- 1950 – Tim Russert, American broadcast journalist (d. 2008)
- 1951 – Janis Ian, singer
- 1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- 1958 – Christine Lieberknecht, German politician
- 1965 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
- 1965 – Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer
- 1967 – Martin Bryant, Australian criminal
- 1969 – Rick Porras, American film producer
- 1975 – Arni Gautur Arason, Icelandic footballer
- 1977 – Lisa Kelly, Irish singer
- 1978 – Stian Arnesen, Norwegian musician and songwriter
- 1978 – Shawn Marion, American basketball player
- 1979 – Katie Douglas, American basketball player
- 1983 – Julio dos Santos, Paraguayan footballer
- 1983 – Garry O'Connor, Scottish footballer
- 1986 – Matt Helders, English musician
- 1987 – Stefan Read, Canadian ski jumper
- 1988 – Natalie Mejia, American dancer and singer
- 1989 – Master Shortie, English singer-songwriter, rapper and producer
- 1992 – Masaki Sato, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
[change] Deaths
- 973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 912)
- 1539 – Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (born 1469)
- 1539 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)
- 1617 – David Fabricius, German astronomer (born 1564)
- 1682 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (born 1661)
- 1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1737)
- 1825 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (born 1750)
- 1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (born 1774)
- 1922 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (born 1857)
- 1941 – James George Frazer, Scottish ethnologist and classical philologist (born 1854)
- 1942 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (born 1863)
- 1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor (born 1889)
- 1987 – Colin Blakely, English actor (born 1930)
- 1989 – Guy Williams, American actor (born 1924)
- 1995 – Ray McKinley, American jazz musician (born 1910)
- 1998 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist (born 1924)
- 2000 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (born 1909)
- 2005 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer (born 1980)
- 2010 – Wally Hickel, American politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska (born 1919)
- 2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (born 1957)
- 2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (born 1924)
