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Events from History on May 07

1274 : 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
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 Orl‚ans broken by Joan of Arc
1579 : Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
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
1700 : William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancip
1727 : Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1748 : French troops conquer Maastricht
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 NYC)
1792 : Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
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 (Phila)
1848 : Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1856 : Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
1861 : Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxvil
1862 : Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1862 : Much of Enschede Neth 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 at
1867 : Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1873 : US marines attack Panama
1875 : German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
1877 : Cin Enquirer, 1st uses term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory
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: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 kill
1902 : Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
1904 : Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1909 : Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv
1912 : Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Priz
1912 : in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1913 : British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
1914 : US 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 Wash Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1920 : USSR recognizes Georgia's independence
1922 : Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2
1922 : NY Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1923 : Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
1924 : Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria America
1925 : Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
1927 : SF 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
1930 : Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins
1934 : Neth 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 : Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-German
1938 : "undesired strangers"
1939 : Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Ax
1940 : Winston Churchill becomes PM 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 exec
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, lau
1943 : US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
1943 : US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia
1944 : German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1945 : Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
1945 : British troops pull into Utrecht Neth
1945 : Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 : Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
1945 : Nazi generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
1945 : Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Neth
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 Isla
1947 : "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
1947 : General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1947 : Paraguayian govt unleashes contra revolt
1948 : Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death
1951 : Intl Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olymp
1951 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
1953 : "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC 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 : US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
1955 : USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain
1955 : West Europe Union established
1956 : Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
1956 : NY Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat
1956 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
1957 : Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDoug
1957 : Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.
1958 : Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
1959 : "Roy Campanella Night" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Colis
1959 : sees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
1960 : "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 : "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 perfs
1960 : "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performance
1960 : Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
1960 : Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR
1960 : USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
1961 : "Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 27 perfs
1962 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1
1962 : US 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, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 : Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
1969 : Lt General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of
1970 : "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
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 : Pres Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
1975 : Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1977 : "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC 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 NYC
1982 : "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore NYC for 12
1982 : IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1982 : Oakland Raiders to move to LA
1982 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 : August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
1983 : Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles win series 4-2
1984 : $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1986 : Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
1987 : 105øF in Sacramento, CA
1987 : Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
1988 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1989 : Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet
1989 : Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presid
1991 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1992 : 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
1992 : Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises pa
1992 : Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1992 : US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 : South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
1994 : Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stol
1994 : Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)
1994 : Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
1995 : "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs
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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