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- 0558 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
- 0685 Death - Marwan I ibn al-Hakam 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies
- 0973 Death - Otto I the Great Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60
- 1166 Death - Willem I the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)
- 1205 Death - Ladislaus III Arpad King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6
- 1274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
- 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.
- 1355 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
- 1416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
- 1429 English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc
- 1429 Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orlans, 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.
- 1523 Death - Franz von Sickingen German knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42
- 1530 Birth - Louis I Cond French prince/leader of hugenots
- 1574 Birth - Innocent X [Giambattista Pamfili] 236th Roman Catholic pope (1644-55)
- 1579 Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
- 1617 Death - David Fabricius German astronomer, dies at 53
- 1624 Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
- 1638 Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
- 1657 Louis XlV prohibits the sale of liquor to Indians.
- 1660 Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
- 1663 Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens
- 1664 Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles.
- 1667 Death - Johann Jakob Froberger German organist/singer/composer, dies at 50
- 1671 Death - Edward Montagu English baron Kimbolton, dies at about 68
- 1671 Death - Pieter Stockmans Flemish chairman of Opperkrijgshof, dies at 62
- 1673 Death - Johannes Teellinck Dutch vicar, dies at about 58
- 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).
- 1700 Birth - Gerard van Swieten Dutch botanist
- 1700 William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
- 1704 Birth - Carl Heinrich Graun composer
- 1736 Death - John Weldon composer, dies at 60
- 1763 Birth - Josef Poniatovski Polish general/marshal of France
- 1763 Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins - Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
- 1765 Admiral Nelson's sailboat HMS Victory runs aground
- 1769 Birth - Giuseppe Farinelli composer
- 1771 Samuel Hearne arrives at the mouth of the Coppermine River and views the Arctic Coast.
- 1771 Samuel Hearne explores the Copper Mine River of Canada
- 1774 Birth - Sir Francis Beaufort naval officer; devised wind force scale
- 1775 Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
- 1776 Birth - Dniel Berzsenyi [Hungarian Horatius], Hungarian poet
- 1789 The first U S inagural ball is held in New York to honor President and Mrs George Washington
- 1789 The first inaugural ball (for George Washington in New York NY)
- 1792 Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
- 1792 Death - Aert Schouman Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82
- 1793 Death - Johan A Zoutman Dutch Lieutenant Admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68
- 1793 Death - Pietro Nardini composer, dies at 71
- 1795 Birth - Gerhard M Roentgen industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord)
- 1800 Death - Laurens P van Spiegel regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64
- 1800 Death - Niccol Piccinni Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
- 1800 Indiana Territory organized
- 1803 Birth - Johan Peter Cronhamm composer
- 1812 Birth - Robert Browning London England, poet (The Pied Piper)
- 1814 Death - Franz Volrath Buttstett composer, dies at 79
- 1818 Death - Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh composer, dies at 70
- 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.
- 1825 Death - Antonio Salieri Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74
- 1826 Birth - Varina Howell Davis 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
- 1827 Birth - Charles T H Coster Belgian literary (Lgendes Flamandes) [or Aug 20]
- 1827 Birth - Francis Engle Patterson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
- 1832 Birth - Carl G Neumann German mathematician/physicist (Neumann-functions)
- 1832 Greece becomes independent republic
- 1832 Greece is recognised independent by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
- 1832 Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece
- 1833 Birth - Johannes Brahms Hamburg Germany, composer, enjoys a good lullaby
- 1836 Death - Norbert Burgmuller composer, dies at 26
- 1836 The settlement of Mayagez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain.
- 1840 Birth - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Votkinsk Russia, composer (The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, 1812 Overture)
- 1840 The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
- 1840 Tornado strikes Natchez MS, kills 317
- 1847 Birth - Archibald Primrose Earl of Rosebery (Liberal), British PM (1894-95)
- 1847 In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
- 1848 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
- 1856 Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
- 1861 Birth - Rabindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel '13)
- 1861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
- 1862 Battle of West Point VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
- 1862 Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire
- 1863 Death - Amiel Weeks Whipple US Union general-major, dies of injuries at 46
- 1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
- 1864 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction VA (Drewry's Bluff)
- 1866 Birth - Cornelis J K van Aalst president (Dutch Trading Company)
- 1866 German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
- 1867 Birth - Philippine "Pine" Belder [Mary de Klerk], actress (Hope of Blessing)
- 1867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
- 1871 Death - Louis Papineau political reformer, dies
- 1873 Birth - Clarence Dickinson composer
- 1873 US marines attack Panama
- 1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
- 1876 Death - Franz count of Pocci German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
- 1882 Birth - Willem Elsschot [Alfons J de Ridder] Flemish writer (Mend)
- 1883 Birth - Gino Roncaglia composer
- 1883 Birth - Martin Albertz German theologist (Church Jesus Christ)
- 1884 Death - Judah P Benjamin confederate minister of War, dies at 72
- 1885 Birth - George "Gabby" Hayes Wellesvile NY, actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso)
- 1885 John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
- 1887 Birth - Henri Pourrat French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
- 1888 Birth - Selmer Jackson Lake Mills IA, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
- 1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
- 1890 Birth - Billy House Minnesota, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I)
- 1891 Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
- 1892 Birth - Archibald MacLeish Glencoe IL, political essayist/poet/dramatist (JB)
- 1892 Birth - Josip Broz Tito WWII partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
- 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.
- 1897 Birth - Kitty McKane England, tennis (Olympics-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-1920, 24)
- 1898 Birth - Vera Chapman writer
- 1900 Birth - Bauke Tuinstra Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur)
- 1900 Birth - Ralph Truman London England, actor (Web of Evidence)
- 1900 Death - Richard Storrs Willis composer, dies at 81
- 1901 Birth - Gary Cooper Helena MT, actor (2 Academy Awards-Sergeant York, High Noon)
- 1901 Birth - L T Coggeshall medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
- 1901 Birth - Marcel Poot Belgian baron/composer
- 1902 Birth - Sal Gliatto baseball player
- 1902 Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
- 1903 Birth - Basil Nield judge/politician
- 1904 Death - Peter Hille writer, dies
- 1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
- 1907 Birth - Jef van Durme composer
- 1907 Charles Collier wins first Isle of Man TT Race (38.22 mph)
- 1908 Birth - Ed MacDonald actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
- 1908 Birth - Wouter Paap composer
- 1909 Birth - Edwin H Land inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
- 1912 Birth - Paul H F Brenneker Netherlands/Antillian photographer/folklorist
- 1914 Death - Edward Mollenhauer composer, dies at 87
- 1914 US Congress establishes mother's day
- 1914 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in the White House
- 1915 Death - Alfred G Vanderbilt US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
- 1915 Death - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr US Lusitania officer, dies
- 1915 Death - Charles Frohman dies aboard Lusitania
- 1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
- 1915 Nearly 1200 people are killed when the British liner Lusitania is sunk off the Irish coast bya German torpedo
- 1915 The Cunard Line's passenger ship Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915
- 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.
- 1917 Birth - Daniel Gills Belgian writer
- 1917 Birth - David Tomlinson Scotland, actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter)
- 1917 Birth - William Geoffrey Biddle bomb disposal expert
- 1918 Birth - Argeliers Leon composer
- 1919 Birth - Eva (Evita) [Duarte] Pern Argentina, 1st lady/actress
- 1920 Kiev Offensive (1920): Polish troops led by Jzef Pisudski and Edward Rydz-migy 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.
- 1920 USSR recognizes independence of Georgia
- 1922 Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands, 1-2
- 1922 Birth - Darren McGavin Spokane WA, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182)
- 1922 Birth - Gale Robbins Chicago IL, actress/singer (Hollywood House, Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex)
- 1923 Birth - Anne Baxter Michigan City IN, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
- 1923 Birth - Pete V Domenici (Senator-R-NM, 1973- )
- 1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
- 1924 Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
- 1926 Birth - Val Bisoglio New York NY, actor (Lieutenant Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME)
- 1927 Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
- 1927 Birth - Jim Lowe Springfield MA, DJ (WNEW) "King of Trivia"
- 1927 San Fransisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
- 1928 Birth - John Ingle actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital)
- 1928 Birth - Marvin Mitchelson attorney
- 1928 Death - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan composer, dies at 56
- 1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
- 1929 Birth - Dick Williams baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
- 1929 Birth - Sally L Smith educator/founder (Lab School of Washington)
- 1929 Death - Albert Anselmi US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
- 1929 Death - John Scalise US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
- 1929 Death - Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
- 1930 Birth - Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets Russia, cosmonaut
- 1930 Birth - Horst Bienek German poet
- 1931 Birth - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete)
- 1931 Birth - Nel J Ginjaar-Maas Dutch under-secretary of Education (VVD)
- 1931 Birth - Teresa Brewer Toledo OH, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
- 1932 Birth - Hans Boskamp [Johan HG Hoelscher] actor/producer (Oh My Papa)
- 1932 Birth - Pete Domeneci (Senator-R-NM)
- 1932 Death - Albert Thomas French social minister of Weapon production, dies
- 1933 Birth - Johnny Unitas NFL QB (Baltimore Colts, San Diego); one of the greats
- 1934 Birth - Ben Smith Atlanta GA, PGA golfer (Ralphs Senior Classic-4th)
- 1934 Birth - Donald Russell Holler composer
- 1934 Birth - Heinz Marti composer
- 1934 Birth - Willard Scott weatherman (Today)
- 1934 Death - Edward Naylor composer, dies at 67
- 1934 Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal
- 1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autonomous Region
- 1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
- 1936 Birth - Cornelius Cardew composer
- 1938 Birth - Johnny Caldwell Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1956)
- 1938 Birth - Kevin O'Connor Honolulu HI, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
- 1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
- 1939 Birth - Jimmy Ruffin soloist (What Becomes of the Broken Hearted)
- 1939 Birth - Johnny Maestro New York NY, rock vocalist (Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge)
- 1939 Birth - Marco St John New Orleans LA, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
- 1939 Birth - Rudolphus FM "Ruud" Lubbers director Dutch/CDA-premier (1982-94)
- 1939 Birth - Volker Braun writer
- 1939 Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
- 1940 Birth - Armando Krieger composer
- 1940 Birth - John Irvin actor (Moment in Time)
- 1940 The Lodz ghetto is sealed. 165,000 people in 1.6 square miles.
- 1941 Birth - Grahame Bilby cricketer (two Tests New Zealand vs England 1966)
- 1941 Cornerstone of Bank of America building at 300 Montgomery laid
- 1941 Death - David Wijnkoop revolutionary socialist, dies
- 1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
- 1942 Death - Felix Paul von Weingartner Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79
- 1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
- 1943 Birth - Christopher Taylor White rocker
- 1943 Birth - Peter Horak jetboat jumper
- 1943 Birth - Rick West [Richard Westwood] rocker (Brian Poole & Tremeloes)
- 1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
- 1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
- 1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
- 1943 Navy representatives witnessed landing trials of the XR-4 helicopter aboard the merchant tanker Bunker
- 1943 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia
- 1943 US first Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
- 1944 Birth - Alison Margaret Bauld composer
- 1944 Birth - John Heard actor (Pelican Brief, CHUD, Radio Flyer, Big)
- 1944 Birth - Sivi Aberg actress (Batman TV show)
- 1944 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
- 1944 HMCS Valleyfield torpedoed
- 1945 Birth - Robin Strasser New York NY, actress (Dorian-One Life to Live, Another World)
- 1945 Birth - Wim A Mateman Dutch MP (CDA)
- 1945 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
- 1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
- 1945 German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe
- 1945 Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reheime, France (to take effect the next day), ending the European theatre of WWII
- 1945 Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
- 1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
- 1946 Birth - Bill Danoff Springfield MA, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
- 1946 Birth - Richard L Brodsky US lawyer/NY State Assemblyman (D) (1983- )
- 1946 Death - Anton A Mussert engineer/NSB leader, executed
- 1946 Death - Joe Humphries cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for England 1907-08), dies
- 1946 William H Hastie inaugurated as first black governor of Virgin Islands
- 1947 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
- 1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
- 1947 Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years.
- 1947 Paraguayian Government unleashes contra revolt
- 1948 Birth - Peter Wingfield Wales, rocker/actor (Methos-Highlander)
- 1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death
- 1949 Birth - Marilyn Cole Portsmouth England, playmate of the year (January 1972)
- 1949 Birth - Stuart Marshall director (Desire)
- 1950 Birth - Janis Ian [Janis Eddy Fink] New York NY, rock vocalist (At 17, Society's Child)
- 1950 Birth - Prairie Prince rocker (Tubes)
- 1951 Birth - David Whitton campaigner
- 1951 Birth - Robert Hegyes Metuchen NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter)
- 1951 Death - Warner Baxter dies at 62
- 1952 Birth - Amy Heckerling Bronx NY, director (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless)
- 1952 Birth - Derek Taylor rocker (Let it Be, Beatles Anthology)
- 1952 The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
- 1953 "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances
- 1953 Death - Ormerod Pearse cricketer (55 runs & 3 wickets in 3 Tests for S Af), dies
- 1953 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by L E Marron, in Chile
- 1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
- 1954 Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
- 1954 US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
- 1955 Birth - Peter Reckell Elkhart IN, actor (Days of our Lifes)
- 1955 USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain
- 1955 West Europe Union established
- 1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
- 1957 Birth - Shauna McDonald Brown TV producer
- 1957 Birth - [Christopher St John] "Sinjin" Smith Los Angeles CA, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
- 1958 Death - Nyogen Senzaki 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
- 1958 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters
- 1959 Birth - Michael E Knight Princeton NJ, actor (Date with Angel, All My Children)
- 1959 Birth - Robin L Freeman St Charles MO, PGA golfer (1993 Northern Telecom-3rd)
- 1959 Visitor posting - Robert Loader born this day the world will never be the same - Australia [email protected]
- 1959 Birth - Tamara E Jernigan Chattanooga, PhD/astronaut (STS 40, 52, 67, 80)
- 1960 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
- 1960 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances
- 1960 Birth - Arnon Ohad co-pilot (El Al) plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
- 1960 Cold War: U-2 Crisis - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
- 1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR
- 1960 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
- 1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
- 1961 Birth - Linda Somers Bitburg Germany, US marathoner (Olympics-31st-96)
- 1962 Birth - Robbie Knievel daredevil, son of Evel (Chips Something Special)
- 1962 Death - Jimmy Conlin dies at 77
- 1963 Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champion
- 1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
- 1964 Birth - Leslie O'Neal NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers, St Louis Rams)
- 1964 Birth - Mustapha Zerqti Moroccan/Netherlands writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd)
- 1964 Birth - Ronnie Harmon NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, Tennessee Oilers)
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Searchers - Don't Throw Your Love Away
- 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.
- 1965 Birth - Reuben Davis NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
- 1966 Birth - Anderson Cummins cricketer (in Packer's Valley Barbados & West Indies quickie)
- 1966 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
- 1967 Death - Judith Evelyn dies of cancer at 54
- 1968 Birth - Joe King NFL safety (Oakland Raiders)
- 1968 Birth - Traci Lords [Nora Louise Kuzma], Steubenville OH, porn actress (Cry Baby)
- 1968 Death - Lurleen Burns wife of George Wallace/Governor of Alabama, dies at 41
- 1969 Birth - Katerina Maleeva Bulgaria, tennis player (US Open Junior 1984)
- 1969 Birth - Melanie Valerio 400 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-96)
- 1969 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
- 1970 "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
- 1970 Birth - Edwin Zoetebier Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
- 1970 Birth - Mark Smith Pasadena CA, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
- 1970 Birth - Sebastien Britten Brossard Qubec Canada, figure skater (1995 Canadian Champion)
- 1970 Death - Carlos Estrada composer, dies at 60
- 1970 Visitor posting - May 7, 1970 Thang Nguyen was born in Vietnam
- 1971 Birth - Cameron McFadzean Melbourne Victoria Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
- 1971 Birth - Dave Karpa Regina, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
- 1971 Birth - Jos Munoz WLAF offensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
- 1971 Birth - Rondell Jones NFL safety (Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens)
- 1971 Death - Willem Banning Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
- 1972 Birth - Chris Hayes safety (New York Jets)
- 1972 Birth - John Holecek NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
- 1972 Birth - Vince Stewart WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
- 1973 Birth - Dameian Jeffries NFL defensive end (New Orleans Saints)
- 1973 Birth - Kristian Lundin record producer
- 1974 Birth - Scott Whittaker center/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
- 1974 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
- 1975 Birth - Jason Tunks London Ontario, discus thrower (Olympics-96)
- 1975 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
- 1976 Birth - Nicholas Butcher Los Angeles CA, field hockey midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
- 1977 Birth - Marko Milic NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
- 1977 Death - Irwin Fischer composer, dies at 73
- 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Deniece Williams - Free
- 1980 Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried
- 1980 Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC
- 1981 Death - Mieczyslaw Kolinski composer, dies at 79
- 1982 Death - Alfred Adam dies at 72
- 1983 August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
- 1983 Death - Peter Edel writer, dies
- 1984 $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
- 1984 In Southern Italy a 5.8 earthquake killed three people and at least 100 injured, and extensive damage in the Abruzzo area
- 1985 Death - Dawn Addams actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
- 1986 Death - Gaston Deferre French politician, dies at 75
- 1986 In the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 8.0 multiple event quake Damage (VI) on Adak and Atka.Tsunami generated with observed wave heights 91 to 122 cm at Kapaa, Kauai and 61 to 91 cm at Hanalei, Kauai and along the coast of Washington
- 1986 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
- 1986 Visitor posting - may 7 1986 The world welcomed Gary Isaacs and its been a better place ever since!
- 1987 Birth - Katie Danza daughter of Tony & Tracy Danza
- 1987 Death - Colin Blakely dies at 56
- 1987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
- 1988 Death - Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead] dies of natural causes at 42
- 1989 Death - Guy Williams actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65
- 1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030 feet
- 1989 On the Burma-China Border Region a 5.6 quake killed at least 1 person, 91 injured and 5,300 houses destroyed in the Gengma area, China
- 1989 Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
- 1989 Visitor posting - Shane Priebe is born in Saint Peters MO
- 1990 Death - Jessica James actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60
- 1991 Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
- 1991 Visitor posting - Chelsey Miracle was born. - USA
- 1991 Visitor posting - Onastacia was born - USA
- 1992 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
- 1992 Claude Morin admits to Radio Canada that he was a paid RCMP informant from 1974 to 1977
- 1992 Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
- 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.
- 1992 US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
- 1992 Visitor posting - Drew Gerstenzang born. Pet - my dog is named fresca - USA
- 1993 Death - Mary Philbin actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
- 1993 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
- 1994 Death - Clement Greenberg US art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85
- 1994 Death - Margaret Skeete oldest American, dies at 115
- 1994 Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen
- 1994 Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)
- 1994 Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
- 1995 Death - Ernest H Martin impressario, dies at 75
- 1995 Death - Lawrence Josset engraver, dies at 84
- 1995 Death - Maria Luisa Bemberg fil maker, dies at 73
- 1995 Death - Ray McKinley drummer, dies at 84
- 1995 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
- 1996 Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
- 1996 Death - Albert Meltzer anarchist, dies at 76
- 1996 Death - Henry Diamond Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
- 1996 Death - Howard Frank Trayton Smith diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76
- 1996 Visitor posting - Daniel lamansky, famous actor, was born. - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Hanna matson was born!!!!!!!!!!!!!(thats me) - USA
- 1997 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
- 1997 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)
- 1998 Visitor posting - Courtney C Was Born - United Kingdom
- 1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
- 1998 Visitor posting - May 7 1998 Hunter Lyon was born
- 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 In Guinea-Bissau, President Joo Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
- 1999 Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
- 1999 Visitor posting - Miranda Ewald was born at around 9 or 10 p.m. May 7th 1999. - USA
- 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.
- 2001 Bradley Dillion Blahay was born May 7, 2001 at 5:29 PM 4.4 lbs. at MetroHealth - Cleveland, Ohio
- 2001 Visitor posting - May 7, 2001 Ireland Isabella Wilson was born at Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills,Ca- She was and is perfect!
- 2005 Former Lebanese Prime Minister, General Michel Aoun returns to Lebanon after 15 years in exile.
- 2006 Rolling Stone magazine publishes its 1000th issue.
- 2007 Visitor posting - first grandson Callum born
- 2007 Visitor posting - Zephan was born
- 2007 The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
- 2007 Windows Live Hotmail was launched and replaced MSN Hotmail.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Bart and Janis Married 25 years
- 2009 Visitor posting - May 7th 2009- Kathryn and Ashlee wrote a research paper :)
- 2009 Visitor posting - May 7 2009 Janelle Elizabeth turns 25.
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