May 7

is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian_calendar (128th in leap_years). There are 238 days remaining.

Events

558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia_Sophia collapses. Justinian immediately orders the dome rebuilt.

1274 - In France the Second_Council_of_Lyons opens to regulate the election of the pope.

1824 - A deaf Beethoven conducts the debut of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna.

1832 - Greece becomes independent. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.

1840 - The Great_Natchez_Tornado occurred. It is the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history. 317 people were killed.

1847 - In Philadelphia, the American_Medical_Association (AMA) is founded.

, under General Ulysses_S._Grant, breaks off from the Battle_of_the_Wilderness and moves southwards.

is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.

troops occupy Kiev.

Condor_Legion_Fighter_Group, equipped with Heinkel_He-51 biplanes arrive in Spain to assist Francisco_Franco's forces.

signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document will take effect the next day.

1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.

1947 - ''Kraft_Television_Theater'' debuts (ran for 11 years).

1948 - The Council_of_Europe is founded during the Hague_Congress.

1951 - The International_Olympic_Committee gives Russia permission to compete in the 1952_Summer_Olympics in Oslo.

1952 - The concept for the integrated_circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey_W.A._Dummer.

defeat (the battle began on March_13).

- Soviet premier Nikita_Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary_Powers.

1992 - Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United_States_Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the United_States_Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise.

1992 - Space_Shuttle_Endeavour launches on its maiden voyage.

1992 - 3 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.

1998 - Apple_Computer unveils the iMac.

1998 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

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 - embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

1999 - In Guinea-Bissau, President João_Bernardo_Vieira is ousted in a military coup.

2002 - A China_Southern_Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow_Sea killing 112.

Births

1812 - Robert_Browning, poet and husband to Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning (d. 1889)

1833 - Johannes_Brahms, composer (d. 1897)

1840 - Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky, composer (d. 1893)

1885 - George_'Gabby'_Hayes, actor (d. 1969)

1892 - Archibald_MacLeish, poet, Pulitzer_Prize winner (d. 1982)

1892 - Josip_Broz_Tito, president of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)

1901 - Gary_Cooper, actor (d. 1961)

1908 - Max_Grundig, industrialist (d. 1989)

1909 - Edwin_H._Land, inventor and founder of Polaroid (d. 1991)

1919 - Eva_Peron, wife of Argentina's President Juan_Peron (d. 1952)

1922 - Darren_McGavin, actor

1923 - Anne_Baxter, actress (d. 1985)

1927 - Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala, screenwriter

1930 - Totie_Fields, comedienne (d. 1978)

1931 - Teresa_Brewer, singer

1933 - Johnny_Unitas, American_football star (d. 2002)

1939 - Ruud_Lubbers, politician and Prime_Minister_of_the_Netherlands

1939 - Jimmy_Ruffin, singer

1940 - Angela_Carter, novelist, journalist (d. 1992)

1942 - Gerhard_Polt, German cabaretist

1946 - Thelma_Houston, singer

1946 - Bill_Kreutzmann, drummer (for Grateful_Dead)

1950 - Randall_'Tex'_Cobb, boxer, actor

1950 - Tim_Russert, host of NBC's ''Meet_the_Press''

1951 - Janis_Ian, singer/songwriter

1954 - Amy_Heckerling, director

1956 - Anne_Dudley, musician

1956 - Jan_Peter_Balkenende, Prime_Minister_of_the_Netherlands

1957 - Sinjin_Smith, volleyball player

1968 - Traci_Lords, actress

1969 - Eagle_Eye_Cherry, musician

Deaths

973 - Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (b. 912)

1539 - Guru_Nanak_Dev ji, The Founder of the Sikh religion (b. 1469)

1825 - Antonio_Salieri, composer (b. 1750)

1896 - H._H._Holmes, serial killer (b. 1861)

1951 - Warner_Baxter, actor (b. 1889)

1998 - Eddie_Rabbitt, musician

2000 - Douglas_Fairbanks_Jr., actor (b. 1909)

2002 - Seattle_Slew, Triple Crown-winning race_horse (b. 1974)

2004 - Waldemar_Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956)

Holidays and Observances

Recorded this date

1941 - "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" (w. Mack Gordon, m. Harry Warden) Glenn_Miller and his Orchestra ---- May_6 - May_8 - April_7 - June_7 -- listing of all days

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