May 7
May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years ). There are 238 days remaining.
Events
558 - In Constantinople , the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian 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 .
1763 - Indian Wars : Pontiac's Rebellion begins - Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit .
1824 - A deaf Beethoven conducts the debut of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna .
1832 - Greece becomes independent. 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 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.
1915 - World War I : a German U-boat sinks the RMS Lusitania , killing 1,198 people.
1920 - Polish-bolshevik war : Polish -Ukrainian troops enter Kyiv .
1937 - Spanish Civil War : The German Condor Legion Fighter Group , 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 .
1951 - The International Olympic Committee gives Russia permission to compete in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki .
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 - Three people are killed at a show of post rockets at Gerhard Zucker on Mount Hasselkopf near Braunlage , (Lower Saxonia, Germany) .
1977 - In London , United Kingdom , Marie Myriam wins the twenty-second Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "L'oiseau et l'enfant" (The bird and the child).
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 .
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 - 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 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.
Births
1530 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé , Huguenot general (d. 1569 )
1812 - Robert Browning , poet and husband to Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1889 )
1833 - Johannes Brahms , composer (d. 1897 )
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , composer (d. 1893 )
1857 - William A. MacCorkle , governor of West Virginia (d. 1930 )
1861 - Rabindranath Tagore , Poet, Indian (d. 1941 )
1885 - George 'Gabby' Hayes , actor (d. 1969 )
1892 - Archibald MacLeish , poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1982 )
1892 - Josip Broz Tito , president of Yugoslavia (d. 1980 )
1901 - Gary Cooper , actor (d. 1961 )
1908 - Max Grundig , industrialist (d. 1989 )
1909 - Edwin H. Land , inventor and founder of Polaroid (d. 1991 )
1919 - Eva Peron , wife of Argentina's President Juan Peron (d. 1952 )
1922 - Darren McGavin , actor
1923 - Anne Baxter , actress (d. 1985 )
1927 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , screenwriter
1930 - Totie Fields , comedienne (d. 1978 )
1931 - Teresa Brewer , singer
1933 - Johnny Unitas , American football star (d. 2002 )
1939 - Ruud Lubbers , politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1939 - Jimmy Ruffin , singer
1940 - Angela Carter , novelist , journalist (d. 1992 )
1942 - Gerhard Polt , German cabaretist
1943 - Harvey Andrews , singer/songwriter
1946 - Thelma Houston , singer
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann , drummer (for Grateful Dead )
1950 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb , boxer , actor
1950 - Tim Russert , host of NBC 's Meet the Press 1951 - Janis Ian , singer/songwriter
1954 - Amy Heckerling , director
1956 - Anne Dudley , musician
1956 - Jan Peter Balkenende , Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1957 - Sinjin Smith , volleyball player
1965 - Owen Hart , professional wrestler (d. 1999 )
1968 - Traci Lords , actress
1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry , musician
Deaths
973 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912 )
1539 - Guru Nanak Dev ji, The Founder of the Sikh religion (b. 1469 )
1825 - Antonio Salieri , composer (b. 1750 )
1840 - Caspar David Friedrich , painter (b. 1774 )
1868 - Henry Peter Brougham , Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778 )
1896 - H. H. Holmes , serial killer (b. 1861 )
1942 - Felix Weingartner , Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863 )
1951 - Warner Baxter , actor (b. 1889 )
1998 - Eddie Rabbitt , musician
2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , actor (b. 1909 )
2002 - Seattle Slew , last triple crown winner
2004 - Waldemar Milewicz , Polish reporter (b. 1956 )
Holidays and observances
Recorded this date
1941 - "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" (w. Mack Gordon, m. Harry Warden) Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
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