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Events and People Who Made History on May 7
13th Century
1274 - 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
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14th Century
1355 - 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
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15th Century
1416 - Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
1429 - English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc
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16th Century
1579 - Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
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17th Century
1624 - Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
1638 - Cornelis S. Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
1660 - Isaack B. Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
1663 - Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens
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18th Century
1700 - William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
1727 - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1748 - French troops conquer Maastricht
1765 - Adm Nelsons sailboat HMS Victory runs aground
1771 - Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
1775 - Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
1789 - 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in New York City)
1792 - Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
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19th Century
1800 - Indiana Territory organized
1824 - Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
1832 - Greece becomes independent republic
1832 - Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece
1840 - Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317
1847 - American Medical Association organizes in Philadelphia
1848 - Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1856 - Argentine and Brazilian sign a navigation pact
1861 - Riot occurs between prosecessionist and Union supporters in Knoxville TN
1862 - Battle of West Point, Virginia (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1862 - Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire
1864 - Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
1864 - Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)
1866 - German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
1867 - Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1873 - U.S. Marines attack Panama
1875 - German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
1885 - John E. W. Thompson, named minister to Haiti
1888 - Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys," premieres in Paris
1888 - George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1891 - Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
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20th Century
1902 - Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent kills 2-5,000
1904 - Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1907 - Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
1909 - Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
1910 - 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1913 - British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
1914 - U.S. Congress establishes mother's day
1914 - Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in White House
1915 - Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
1917 - Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1920 - U.S.S.R. recognizes Georgia's independence
1921 - 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2
1922 - Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2
1922 - New York Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1923 - Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
1924 - Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
1925 - Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
1925 - Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
1927 - San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
1928 - England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1928 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
1930 - Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex vs. Northants in 330 minutes
1932 - 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2
1934 - Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal
1934 - Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
1934 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)
1934 - World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1938 - 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8
1938 - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1939 - Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1940 - Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
1941 - British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
1941 - Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
1941 - Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942 - Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
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 - U.S. 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia
1943 - U.S. 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia
1944 - German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1945 - British troops pull into Utrecht, Netherlands
1945 - Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 - Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
1945 - Nazi generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender
1945 - Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands
1945 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
1945 - SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
1946 - William H. Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
1947 - General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1947 - "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
1947 - Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt
1948 - Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death
1949 - 75th Kentucky Derby: Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 2:04.2
1951 - International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1951 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
1953 - "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 892 performances
1953 - Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile
1954 - French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
1954 - U.S., Great Britain and France reject Russian membership in NATO
1955 - 81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8
1955 - U.S.S.R. signs peace treaty with France and Great Britain
1955 - West Europe Union established
1956 - Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
1956 - New York Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat
1956 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
1957 - Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald
1957 - Major Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K)
1958 - Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
1960 - 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
1960 - "Christine" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 12 performances
1960 - Dodgers Larry and Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
1960 - "Flower Drum Song" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 602 performances
1960 - "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 21 performances
1960 - Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of U.S.S.R.
1960 - Los Angeles Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th home run wins the game for brother Larry
1960 - Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12 -8 for world chess championship
1960 - U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
1961 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1961 - "Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 27 performances
1962 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
1962 - U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ
1963 - SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1965 - WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
1966 - Mamas and Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
1966 - Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
1967 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1969 - 2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1
1969 - Robert E. Cushman, Jr., becomes deputy director of CIA
1970 - "Long and Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
1972 - 26th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1
1972 - Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic
1973 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
1974 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1975 - Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
1975 - President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
1975 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1977 - 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2
1977 - "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 75 performances
1979 - 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
1979 - Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
1980 - Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried
1980 - Samm-Art Williams' "Home," premieres in New York City
1982 - Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing
1982 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1982 - "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore New York City for 12 performances
1982 - Oakland Raiders to move to Los Angeles
1982 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - 109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Sunny's Halo wins in 2:02.2
1983 - August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
1983 - Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles win series 4-2
1984 - $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1984 - Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic
1986 - Bucharest wins 31st Europe Cup I
1986 - Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
1987 - 105 degrees F in Sacramento, California
1987 - Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
1988 - 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2
1988 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1989 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1989 - Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030 feet
1989 - Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 - Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
1992 - 5 New York City cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
1992 - Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
1992 - Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1992 - U.S. space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 - South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
1994 - 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6
1994 - Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle)
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 - Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
1995 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1995 - "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater New York City after 8 performances
1995 - Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours and 36 minutes
1996 - Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
1997 - Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
1997 - Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)
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21st Century
2002 - China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112
2005 - The Huffington Post weblog makes it's debut
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