Historical Events on May 7

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• 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
• 1274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens, convened by Pope Gregory X
• 1355 1,200 Jews of Toledo, Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
• 1416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay

• 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

• 1697 Stockholm's medieval royal castle is destroyed by fire, the Codex Gigas (world's largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript) survives by being thrown out a window

• 1718 The city of New Orleans is founded by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
• 1727 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
• 1748 French troops conquer Maastricht in the War of the Austrian Succession

• 1765 HMS Victory launched; Admiral Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, 40 years later
• 1771 Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
• 1775 Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria

• 1792 Captain Robert Gray is the first European to discover Grays Harbor (Washington state)
• 1794 Influential Gothic romance "The Mysteries of Udolpho" is published by Ann Ratcliffe in London
• 1800 Indiana Territory organized
• 1817 Japanese Emperor Kōkaku abdicates in favour of his son Emperor Ninkō

• 1832 Greece becomes independent, Otto of Bavaria is chosen as king
• 1836 The settlement of Mayagüez elevates Puerto Rico to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain
• 1840 Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, kills 317

• 1847 American Medical Association founded in Philadelphia
• 1848 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
• 1856 Argentina & Brazil sign a navigation pact
• 1861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
• 1862 Battle of West Point, Virginia (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
• 1862 Much of Enschede, Netherlands, destroyed by fire
• 1862 South Dakota Historical Society is founded as the Old Settlers Association of Dakota Territory; organization renamed after statehood attained in 1890
• 1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
• 1864 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction, Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)

• 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 Cincinnati Enquirer first uses term "bullpen" to indicate baseball field foul territory where late-coming spectators were herded like cattle
• 1885 John E W Thompson named US minister to Haiti
• 1888 Édouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys" premieres in Paris
• 1891 Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Muslim rebellion, 300 killed
• 1895 Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver in St. Petersburg. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
• 1902 La Soufrière volcano on St Vincent kills 1,680 people
• 1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
• 1907 Central American Court of Justice inaugurated in San Jose, Costa Rica - first standing tribunal for International Law in the world [1]
• 1907 Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
• 1908 Emperor Franz-Joseph celebrates his golden jubilee with festivities throughout the Austro-Hungarian empire
• 1909 Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)

• 1913 An ambassadorial conference in St Petersburg, Russia, awards the town of Silistria to Rumania in compensation for Bulgaria's other territorial gains in the First Balkan War
• 1913 British House of Commons rejects women's right to vote
• 1913 Plot by English suffragettes to blow up part of St Paul's cathedral thwarted when the bomb is discovered [1]
• 1914 US Congress establishes Mother's Day

• 1919 A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to the Germans
• 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 Americana
• 1925 1st projection planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich, Germany
• 1925 MBA Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
• 1925 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
• 1927 Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
• 1927 SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated

• 1928 The United Kingdom lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
• 1930 Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins
• 1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region

• 1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley for his play "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-Germany "undesired strangers"
• 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

• 1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
• 1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
• 1943 British 11th Hussars occupy Tunis
• 1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps

• 1943 US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia
• 1943 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia

• 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
• 1945 World War II: British troops enter Utrecht, Netherlands

• 1946 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees
• 1946 William H. Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
• 1947 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC

• 1947 Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt
• 1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death
• 1949 Roem–Van Roijen Agreement negotiated in Jakarta between Indonesian Republican Mohammad Roem and Jan Herman van Roijen for Netherlands - paves the way for independence
• 1951 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
• 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to Conrad Richter, for his novel "The Town"
• 1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer
• 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 of NATO
• 1955 USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great Britain
• 1955 West European Union established
• 1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
• 1956 NY Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat

• 1957 Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald
• 1958 US Air Force Major Howard Johnson sets world aircraft altitude record in a Lockhead F-104 Starfighter at 27,810 m

• 1960 Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
• 1960 LA Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry

• 1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H. White (Making of President 1960)
• 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
• 1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
• 1965 WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1966 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
• 1966 NY Yankees fire manager Johnny Keane
• 1969 Lt General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
• 1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
• 1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
• 1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays

• 1979 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
• 1979 Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
• 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.
• 1980 Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC
• 1980 Yugoslav President Josip Tito is buried
• 1982 Californian federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders move to Los Angeles Coliseum
• 1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
• 1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1983 August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups

• 1986 Iraq bombs a Tehran oil refiner
• 1986 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
• 1987 105°F in Sacramento, CA
• 1987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on TV comedy "Cheers"
• 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet

• 1991 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1991 Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
• 1992 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge, Long Island, for selling cocaine

• 1992 Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
• 1992 US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
• 1993 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
• 1994 Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle)

• 1995 Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours & 36 minutes

• 1997 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
• 1997 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)

• 1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $US40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the then largest industrial merger in history
• 1999 Guinea-Bissau President João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira is ousted in a military coup
• 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 Amedure's family $25 million
• 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

• 2002 A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
• 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

• 2007 Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University announces he has discovered the tomb of Herod the Great at Herodium, West Bank

• 2012 NATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province
• 2012 Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth

• 2013 20 people are killed and 36 are injured after a gas tanker explodes in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico
• 2013 4 people are killed after the Mayon Volcano erupts in the Philippines
• 2013 55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
• 2013 8 people are killed and a dozen are injured after bear attacks in Orissa, India
• 2013 Delaware becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage
• 2013 Jolly Nero, an Italian cargo ship, crashes into the port of Genoa, killing seven people
• 2013 The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set record highs
• 2014 Fighting between pro-Russian and Kiev forces continue amid fears internationally of a civil war in Ukraine

• 2017 “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” becomes the highest grossing Indian box office film ever earning $120 million
• 2018 Global tourism accounts for 8% of the world's carbon emissions according to a University of Sydney study

• 2018 More mudslides in Rwanda kill 18 people bringing the year's death toll to 200
• 2018 Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years
• 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
• 2019 Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin "magic mushrooms"

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