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07 May 1274
2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens convened by Pope Gregory X
07 May 1355
1200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
07 May 1416
Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
07 May 1624
Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima Peru
07 May 1638
Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
07 May 1660
Isaack B Fubine of Savoy in The Hague patents macaroni
07 May 1697
Stockholms medieval royal castle is destroyed by fire the Codex Gigas (worlds largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript) survives by being thrown out a window
07 May 1718
The city of New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
07 May 1727
Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
07 May 1748
French troops conquer Maastricht in the War of the Austrian Succession
07 May 1765
HMS Victory launched Admiral Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar 40 years later
07 May 1771
Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
07 May 1775
Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
07 May 1792
Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
07 May 1832
Greece becomes independent Otto of Bavaria is chosen as king
07 May 1836
The settlement of Mayagez elevates Puerto Rico to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain
07 May 1840
Tornado strikes Natchez Mississippi kills 317
07 May 1847
American Medical Association organizes (Philadelphia)
07 May 1861
Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
07 May 1862
Battle of West Point Virginia (Elthams Landing Barnhamsville)
07 May 1862
Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire
07 May 1864
Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses USA-17666 CSA-7500)
07 May 1864
Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction Virginia (Drewrys Bluff)
07 May 1867
Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
07 May 1875
German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands 312 killed
07 May 1877
Cincinnati Enquirer first uses term Bullpen to indicate foul territory
07 May 1888
Edouard Lalos opera Le roi dYs premieres in Paris
07 May 1891
Battle in Bunyoro Capt F Lugard stops Muslim rebellion 300 killed
07 May 1895
Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the worlds first radio receiver in St. Petersberg. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
07 May 1902
La Soufrire volcano on St Vincent kills 1680 people
07 May 1907
Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race (38.22 mph)
07 May 1908
Emperor Franz-Joseph celebrates his golden jubilee with festivities throughout the Austro-Hungarian empire
07 May 1909
Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
07 May 1910
35th Preakness R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 140.6
07 May 1912
Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories after established by Joseph Pulitzer
07 May 1913
British House of Commons rejects womens right to vote
07 May 1913
An ambassadorial conference in St Petersburg Russia awards the town of Silistria to Rumania in compensation for Bulgarias other territorial gains in the First Balkan War
07 May 1915
RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland 1198 lives lost
07 May 1919
A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to Germans
07 May 1921
47th Kentucky Derby Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 204.2
07 May 1924
Peruvian Torre forms APRA Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
07 May 1925
Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
07 May 1925
Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
07 May 1927
Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
07 May 1928
The United Kingdom lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
07 May 1928
Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for Bridge of San Luis Rey
07 May 1930
Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins
07 May 1932
58th Kentucky Derby Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 205.2
07 May 1934
Princess Juliana of the Netherlands opens Juliana Canal between Maastricht and Maasbracht
07 May 1934
Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
07 May 1934
Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley for his play Men in White
07 May 1934
Worlds largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan Philippines
07 May 1938
64th Kentucky Derby Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin scores first of record 5 Derby wins
07 May 1938
Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany undesired strangers
07 May 1939
Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
07 May 1941
British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
07 May 1941
Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
07 May 1942
Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
07 May 1942
Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
07 May 1943
Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
07 May 1943
Liberty Ship George Washington Carver named after scientist launched
07 May 1943
US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
07 May 1943
US 9th Infantry division occupies BizertaBensert Tunisia
07 May 1944
German assault on Titos hideout in Drvar Bosnia
07 May 1945
Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
07 May 1945
World War II British troops enter Utrecht Netherlands
07 May 1945
Princess Irene Brigade moves into The Hague Netherlands
07 May 1945
Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
07 May 1945
SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam killing 22
07 May 1946
William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
07 May 1946
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees
07 May 1947
Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt
07 May 1948
Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death
07 May 1949
75th Kentucky Derby Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 204.2
07 May 1951
International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
07 May 1951
Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
07 May 1952
The concept of the integrated circuit the basis for all modern computers is first published by Geoffrey Dummer
07 May 1953
Can Can opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances
07 May 1955
USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great Britain
07 May 1956
Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
07 May 1957
Indians pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald
07 May 1958
US Air Force Major Howard Johnson sets world aircraft altitude record in a Lockhead F-104 Starfighter at 27810 m
07 May 1960
Christine closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
07 May 1960
Flower Drum Song closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances
07 May 1953
Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron in Chile
07 May 1954
French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
07 May 1954
US Great Britain & France reject Russian membership of NATO
07 May 1955
81st Kentucky Derby Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 201.8
07 May 1960
From A to Z closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
07 May 1960
86th Kentucky Derby Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 202.4
07 May 1960
Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseballs 10th brother battery
07 May 1960
LA Dodger Norm Sherrys 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry
07 May 1960
Michael Tal beats Mikhail Botvinnik 12-8 for world chess championship
07 May 1960
USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy
07 May 1961
Young Abe Lincoln closes at Eugene ONeill NYC after 27 performances
07 May 1962
Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H. White (Making of President 1960)
07 May 1963
SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6700 miles (10800 km))
07 May 1965
WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
07 May 1966
92nd Kentucky Derby Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 202
07 May 1969
2nd ABA championship Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers 4 games to 1
07 May 1969
Lt General Robert E Cushman Jr USMC becomes deputy director of CIA
07 May 1970
Long & Winding Road becomes Beatles last American release
07 May 1972
26th NBA Championship LA Lakers beat NY Knicks 4 games to 1
07 May 1973
Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimists Daughter)
07 May 1974
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
07 May 1975
Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
07 May 1977
Happy End opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 75 performances
07 May 1977
103rd Kentucky Derby Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 202.2
07 May 1977
22nd Eurovision Song Contest Marie Myriam for France wins singing Loiseau et lenfant in London
07 May 1979
Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
07 May 1982
Is There Life after High School opens at Barrymore NYC for 12 performances
07 May 1982
Californian federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders move to Los Angeles Coliseum
07 May 1983
109th Kentucky Derby Ed Delahoussaye wins aboard Sunnys Halo for consecutive Derby victories (1982 Gato Del Sol)
07 May 1983
August Hoffman performs record 29051 consecutive sit-ups
07 May 1983
NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final New York Islanders beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2
07 May 1986
30th European Cup Steaua Bucuresti beats Barcelona (0-0 2-0 on penalties) at Seville
07 May 1987
Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) final episode on TV comedy Cheers
07 May 1988
114th Kentucky Derby Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 202.2
07 May 1989
Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21030 feet
07 May 1991
Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
07 May 1992
5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
07 May 1992
Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
07 May 1992
Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7000 horse races
07 May 1992
US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
07 May 1994
120th Kentucky Derby Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 203.6
07 May 1994
Denver Nuggets become NBAs 1st 8 seed to beat a 1 seed (Seattle)
07 May 1995
On the Waterfront closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 performances
07 May 1995
Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
07 May 1995
Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings 6 hours & 36 minutes
07 May 1998
Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the then largest industrial merger in history
07 May 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
07 May 1999
In Guinea-Bissau President Joo Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
07 May 1999
Jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in death of Scott Amedure after purposely deceiving Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later kills Amedure jury awards Amedures family 25 million
07 May 2002
A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea killing 112 people.
07 May 2003
Arsenal thrash Southampton 6-1 at Highbury to start Gunners amazing English Premier League record 49-game unbeaten streak ends 24 October 2004 with 2-0 defeat at Manchester United
07 May 2005
131st Kentucky Derby Mike Smith aboard Giacomo wins in202.75
07 May 2006
52nd British Academy Television Awards Help Best Comedy Doctor Who Best Drama
07 May 2007
Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University announces he has discovered the tomb of Herod the Great at Herodium West Bank
07 May 2011
137th Kentucky Derby John Velazquez aboard Animal Kingdom wins in 202.04
07 May 2012
NATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistans Badghis Province
07 May 1794
Influential Gothic romance The Mysteries of Udolpho is published by Ann Ratcliffe in London
07 May 1925
MBA Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
07 May 1941
British House of Commons votes for Winston Churchill (477-3)
07 May 1888
douard Lalos opera Le roi dYs premieres in Paris
07 May 1817
Japanese Emperor Kkaku abdicates in favour of his son Emperor Nink
07 May 1907
Central American Court of Justice inaugurated in San Jose Costa Rica - first standing tribunal for International Law in the world [1]
07 May 1951
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to Conrad Richter for his novel The Town
07 May 1960
Webster and Fains musical Christine based on Hilda Wernhers novel My Indian Family closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
07 May 1980
Paul Geidel Jr American murderer and longest-serving prison inmate in the United States paroled after 68 years 296 days at the age of 86.
07 May 1253
Flemish friar William of Rubruck sets off to convert the Mongols to Christianity a mission ordered by French king Louis IX - one of the most famous travel accounts in the Medieval world
07 May 1913
Plot by English suffragettes to blow up part of St Pauls cathedral thwarted when the bomb is discovered [1]
07 May 1949
RoemVan Roijen Agreement negotiated in Jakarta between Indonesian Republican Mohammad Roem and Jan Herman van Roijen for Netherlands - paves the way for independence
07 May 1960
Musical review From A to Z closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
07 May 1960
Rodgers and Hammersteins musical Flower Drum Song closes at St James Theater. NYC after 602 performances and 1 Tony Award
07 May 1960
Webster and Fains musical Christine based on Hilda Wernhers novel My Indian Family closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
07 May 1977
Happy End opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC runs for 75 performances
07 May 1982
Is There Life after High School opens at Barrymore Theatre NYC runs for 12 performances
07 May 1995
Stage drama adaptation of On the Waterfront closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 performances
07 May 2005
131st Kentucky Derby Mike Smith aboard 50-1 longshot Giacomo wins ahead of another outsider Closing Argument exacta payout 9814.80
07 May 1638
Cornelis Gooyer establishes the first permanent Dutch settlement on Mauritius then uninhabited
07 May 1718
The city of New Orleans is founded by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
07 May 1792
Captain Robert Gray is the first European to discover Grays Harbor (Washington state)
07 May 1840
Tornado strikes Natchez Mississippi killing 317
07 May 1847
American Medical Association founded in Philadelphia
07 May 1861
Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville Tennessee
07 May 1862
Battle of West Point Virginia at Elthams Landing Barnhamsville
07 May 1862
South Dakota Historical Society is founded as the Old Settlers Association of Dakota Territory organization renamed after statehood attained in 1890
07 May 1864
Battle of Wilderness ends inconclusively in Virginia Union losses 17666 Confederates 7500
07 May 1877
Cincinnati Enquirer first uses term bullpen to indicate baseball field foul territory where late-coming spectators were herded like cattle
07 May 1885
John E. W. Thompson named US minister to Haiti
07 May 1891
Battle in Bunyoro British Captain Frederick Lugard stops Muslim rebellion 300 killed
07 May 1895
Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the worlds first radio receiver in St. Petersburg. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
07 May 1919
A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to the Germans
07 May 1925
1st projection planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich Germany
07 May 1940
British House of Commons begins its Norway Debate on the conduct of the war after Germany invaded Norway - will lead to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister
07 May 1945
Pulitzer Prize for a Novel awarded to John Hersey for Bell for Adano
07 May 1946
William H. Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
07 May 1962
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction awarded to Theodore H. White for The Making of the President 1960
07 May 1965
WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting
07 May 1973
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to Eudora Welty for Optimists Daughter
07 May 1974
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded to Robert Lowell for Dolphin
07 May 1995
Revival of Budd Schulbergs stage drama On the Waterfront adapted from his screenplay for the 1954 film closes at the Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 performances [1]
07 May 1999
Guinea-Bissau President Joo Bernardo Nino Vieira is ousted in a military coup
07 May 2012
Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth
07 May 2013
20 people are killed and 36 are injured after a gas tanker explodes in Ecatepec de Morelos Mexico
07 May 2013
4 people are killed after the Mayon Volcano erupts in the Philippines
07 May 2013
55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
07 May 2013
8 people are killed and a dozen are injured after bear attacks in Orissa India
07 May 2013
Delaware becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage
07 May 2013
Jolly Nero an Italian cargo ship crashes into the port of Genoa killing seven people
07 May 2013
The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set record highs
07 May 2014
Fighting between pro-Russian and Kiev forces continue amid fears internationally of a civil war in Ukraine
07 May 2017
Baahubali 2 The Conclusion becomes the highest grossing Indian box office film ever earning 120 million
07 May 2018
Global tourism accounts for 8% of the worlds carbon emissions according to a University of Sydney study
07 May 2018
More mudslides in Rwanda kill 18 people bringing the years death toll to 200
07 May 2018
Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years
07 May 2018
World Snooker Championship Crucible Theatre Sheffield Welshman Mark Williams beats John Higgins of Scotland 18-16 as promised does his press conference in the nude
07 May 2019
Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin magic mushrooms