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May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (128th in
leap years ). There are 238 days remaining.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
Events 558 - In Constantinople , the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
1274 - In France , the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope .
1298 - Colocation of the first stone of Barcelona's Cathedral .
1348 - Fundation of the Carolina University in Prague .
1429 - Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans , pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning wounded to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War .
1664 - Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles .
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 - World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony in Vienna , Austria . Work was conducted by Michael Umlauf , under the deaf composer's supervision.
1832 - Greece is recognised independent by the Treaty of London . Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King .
1836 - The settlement of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain .
1840 - The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi , killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in U.S. 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 , Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the first in the world radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union this day is celebrated as Day of Radio.
1915 - World War I : a German submarine U-20 sinks the RMS Lusitania , killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turned many formerly pro-Germans in the United States of America against the German Empire .
1920 - Kiev Offensive (1920) : Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force captured Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
1920 - Treaty of Moscow (1920) : Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
1927 - Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
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 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 .
1964 - Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 , a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California , killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
1974 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
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 raise.
1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage (STS-49 ).
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 .
1998 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1999 - Pope John Paul II travels 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 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 NATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade .
1999 - In Guinea-Bissau , President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup .
2002 - A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea , killing 112 people.
2005 - Former Lebanese Prime Minister, General Michel Aoun returns to Lebanon after 15 years in exile.
2006 - Rolling Stone 2006 - Arsenal play their last game at Highbury Stadium .
Births 1328 - Louis VI the Roman , Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365 )
1530 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé , French Huguenot general (d. 1569 )
1643 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt , American politician (d. 1700 )
1700 - Gerard van Swieten , Dutch-born physician (d. 1772 )
1724 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser , Austrian general (d. 1797 )
1740 - Nikolai Arkharov , Russian general (d. 1814 )
1748 - Olympe de Gouges , playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793 )
1763 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski , Polish prince (d. 1813 )
1774 - William Bainbridge , American Commodore
1812 - Robert Browning , English poet (d. 1889 )
1833 - Johannes Brahms , German composer (d. 1897 )
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Russian composer (d. 1893 )
1847 - Archibald Primrose , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929 )
1857 - William A. MacCorkle , American politician (d. 1930 )
1861 - Rabindranath Tagore , Indian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1941 )
1867 - Władysław Reymont , Polish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1925 )
1882 - Willem Elsschot , Flemish writer (d. 1960 )
1885 - George 'Gabby' Hayes , American actor (d. 1969 )
1891 - Harry McShane , Scottish socialist (d. 1988 )
1892 - Archibald MacLeish , American Librarian of Congress (d. 1982 )
1892 - Josip Broz Tito , President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980 )
1896 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov , Russian mathematician (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 )
1916 - Huw Wheldon , British broadcaster (d. 1986 )
1919 - Eva Peron , Argentinian first lady (d. 1952 )
1922 - Darren McGavin , American actor (d. 2006 )
1923 - Anne Baxter , American actress (d. 1985 )
1924 - Albert Band , American film director (d. 2002 )
1927 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , German screenwriter
1929 - Babe Parilli , American football player
1930 - Totie Fields , American comedienne (d. 1978 )
1931 - Teresa Brewer , American singer
1933 - Johnny Unitas , American football player (d. 2002 )
1933 - Nexhmije Pagarusha , Albanian singer
1935 - Isobel Warren , Canadian author
1939 - Sidney Altman , Canadian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
1939 - Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1939 - Jimmy Ruffin , American singer
1939 - Ruggero Deodato , Italian film director , actor and screen writer
1940 - Angela Carter , English novelist and journalist (d. 1992 )
1943 - Harvey Andrews , English singer and songwriter
1945 - Christy Moore , Irish folk artist
1946 - Thelma Houston , American singer
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann , American drummer (Grateful Dead )
1950 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb , American boxer and actor
1950 - Tim Russert , American television host
1954 - Philippe Geluck , Belgian cartoonist
1954 - Amy Heckerling , American director
1955 - Ben Poquette , American basketball player
1955 - Tim Richmond , American race car driver.
1955 - Kevin Reed , American theologian
1956 - Jan Peter Balkenende , Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1956 - Anne Dudley , British composer
1956 - Jean Lapierre , Canadian politician and television host
1957 - Ray Fernandez , wrestler (d. 2004 )
1961 - Phil Campbell , British musician (Motörhead )
1963 - Johnny Lee Middleton , American musician (Savatage & Trans-Siberian Orchestra )
1965 - Owen Hart , Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999 )
1968 - Traci Lords , American actress
1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry , Swedish musician
1972 - Frank Trigg , Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1973 - Kristian Lundin , Swedish songwriter
1973 - Paolo Savoldelli , Italian cyclist
1974 - Breckin Meyer , American actor
1974 - Ian Pearce , English footballer
1975 - Jason Tunks , Canadian Olympic discus thrower
1975 - Nicole Sheridan , American porn star
1975 - Zee , American hip hop artist
1978 - Brian Clevinger , American author
1978 - Shawn Marion , American basketball player
1979 - Katie Douglas , American basketball player
1980 - Johan Kenkhuis , Dutch swimmer
1984 - Alex Smith , American football player
1987 - Asami Konno , Japanese singer (Morning Musume )
1987 - Dennis Mak , Chinese singer (Sun Boy'z )
Deaths 973 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912 )
1092 - Remigius de Fécamp , first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown)
1427 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr , English churchman
1523 - Franz von Sickingen , German soldier (b. 1481 )
1539 - Guru Nanak Dev , Pakistani founder of Sikhism (b. 1469 )
1539 - Ottaviano Petrucci , Italian printer (b. 1466 )
1615 - Sanada Yukimura , Japanese samurai (b. 1567 )
1617 - David Fabricius , German astronomer (b. 1564 )
1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger , German composer (b. 1616 )
1682 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661 )
1718 - Mary of Modena , wife of James II of England (b. 1658 )
1793 - Pietro Nardini , Italian composer (b. 1722 )
1800 - Niccola Piccinni , Italian composer (b. 1728 )
1805 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737 )
1825 - Antonio Salieri , Italian composer (b. 1750 )
1840 - Caspar David Friedrich , German painter (b. 1774 )
1868 - Henry Peter Brougham , Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778 )
1896 - H. H. Holmes , American serial killer (b. 1861 )
1922 - Max Wagenknecht , German composer (b. 1857 )
1925 - William Hesketh Lever , First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851 )
1940 - George Lansbury , Labour Party Leader (b. 1859 )
1941 - Sir James George Frazer , Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854 )
1942 - Felix Weingartner , Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863 )
1951 - Warner Baxter , American actor (b. 1889 )
1998 - Allan McLeod Cormack , South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924 )
1998 - Eddie Rabbitt , American musician (b. 1941 )
2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , American actor (b. 1909 )
2002 - Seattle Slew , American Race-Horse (b. 1974 )
2004 - Waldemar Milewicz , Polish reporter (b. 1956 )
2005 - Tristan Egolf , American writer (b. 1971 )
2005 - Otilino Tenorio , Ecuadorian football (soccer) player (b. 1980 )
2006 - Richard Carleton , Australian news reporter (b.1943 )
2006 - Lillian Gertrud Asplund , RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1907 )
2006 - Joan C. Edwards , American philanthropist (b. 1918 )
2006 - Machiko Soga , Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943 )
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