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2005-05-07

On this day in History - May 7

0558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
0973 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 0912)
1274 - In France the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
1342 - Início do pontificado do Papa Clemente VI
1429 - Joan of Arc leads a French attack on English bridgeheads on the south side of the Loire River.
1530 - Louis I de Bourbon, was born (d. 1569). Prince de Condé, Huguenot general
1539 - Guru Nanak Dev dies (b. 1469) ji, founder of the Sikh religion.
1711 - David Hume was born. Scotish philosopher.
1718 - Mary of Modena, dies (b. 1658). Queen of James II of England
1763 - Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins - Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
1793 - Pietro Nardini dies (b. 1722). Italian violinist and composer.
1800 - Foi instituida a profissão de carteiro. O Superintendente-Geral dos Correios de Portugal, José Diogo de Mascarenhas, criou o lugar de "portador", hoje designado por carteiro.
1800 - Niccolò Piccinni dies (b. 1728). Italian composer.
1812 - Robert Browning, was born (d. 1889). English poet and husband to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1824 - A deaf Beethoven conducts the debut of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna.
1825 - Antonio Salieri, dies (b. 1750). Composer.
1832 - Greece becomes independent. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
1833 - Johannes Brahms, was born (d. 1897). German composer.
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born (d. 1893). Russian composer.
1840 - The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
1840 - Caspar David Friedrich, dies (b. 1774). Painter.
1847 - In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
1857 - William A. MacCorkle, was born (d. 1930). Governor of West Virginia
1861 - Rabindranath Tagore, was born (d. 1941). Indian writer.
1864 - American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
1868 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
1874 - Lyman James Briggs was born. American physicist.
1876 - Paul Rivet was born (d. 25 Mar 1958). French ethnologist who was an authority on South American Indian cultures. ["Les Origènes de l'Homme Americain" (1943)].
1879 - Charles Théodore Henri de Coster dies. Author.
1880 - Morte no Rio de Janeiro do Duque de Caxias (Luiz Alves de Lima e Silva), o glorioso 'soldado' brasileiro.
1885 - Morte do médico português António Albino da Fonseca Benevides (n. 11 Fev 1816).
1885 - George 'Gabby' Hayes, was born (d. 1969). Actor.
1887 - Nascimento em Estancia - SE, Brasil de Gilberto Amado, jornalista, político, diplomata, poeta, ensaísta, cronista, romancista e memorialista, membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras, 1892 - Archibald MacLeish, was born (d. 1982). American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner.
1892 - Josip Broz Tito, was biorn (d. 19870). President of Yugoslavia.
1896 - H. H. Holmes, dies (b. 1861). Serial killer.
1901 - Gary Cooper,was born (d. 1961). American actor.
1908 - Max Grundig, was born (d. 1989). Industrialist.
1909 - Edwin H. Land, was born (d. 1991). American inventor.
1915 - World War I: a German U-boat sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people.
1916 - Futbol-Argentina - San Lorenzo juega su primer partido oficial en su primera cancha, construída en el mismo predio de avenida La Plata donde luego levantaría su histórico Gasómetro, pocos años después. Este día jugó contra Estudiantes de La Plata, a quien venció por 2 a 1, con goles de Antonio Moggio y E. Fernández para el local y Lamás para el visitante.
1919 - Eva Peron, was born (d. 1952). Wife of Argentine President Juan Peron.
1919 - É decretada a lei das 8 horas de trabalho
1920 - Polish-Bolshevik War: Polish-Ukrainian troops captured Kyiv during the Kiev Offensive.
1922 - Darren McGavin, was born. Actor
1923 - Anne Baxter, was born (d. 1985). Actress.
1927 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, was born. Screenwriter
1930 - Totie Fields, was born (d. 1978). Comedienne.
1931 - Teresa Brewer, was born. Singer.
1933 - Johnny Unitas, was born (d. 2002). American football star.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He-51 biplanes, arrive in Spain to assist Franco's forces.
1939 - Sidney Altman was born. Canadian-American molecular biologist who, with Thomas R. Cech, received the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discoveries concerning RNA, or ribonucleic acid.
1939 - Ruud Lubbers, was born. Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
1939 - Jimmy Ruffin, was born. Singer.
1940 - Angela Carter, was born (d. 1992). Novelist and journalist.
1942 - Gerhard Polt, was born. German cabaretist.
1942 - Felix Weingartner, dies (b. 1863). Yugoslavian conductor.
1943 - Harvey Andrews, was born. Singer and songwriter
1945 - World War II: General Alfred Jodl 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.
1946 - Thelma Houston, was born. Singer.
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann, was born. Drummer (Grateful Dead).
1947 - Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years).
1948 - The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1950 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb, was born. Boxer and actor.
1950 - Tim Russert, was born. American television host (Meet the Press)
1951 - Janis Ian, was born. Singer and songwriter.
1951 - Warner Baxter, dies (b. 1889). Actor.
1951 - The International Olympic Committee gives Russia permission to compete in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
1952 - The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
1954 - Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
1954 - Amy Heckerling, was born. American film director.
1956 - Anne Dudley, was born. Musician.
1956 - Jan Peter Balkenende, was born. Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1957 - Sinjin Smith, was born. Volleyball player.
1960 - Cold War: U-2 Crisis - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1961 - Futbol - Colombia clasifica por primera vez a una Copa del Mundo al empatar frente a Perú a un gol en el Estadio Nacional de Lima.
1964 - Three people are killed at a show of post rockets at Gerhard Zucker on Mount Hasselkopf near Braunlage, (Lower Saxonia, Germany) .
1965 - Owen Hart, was born (d. 1999). Professional wrestler.
1968 - Traci Lords, was born. Actress.
1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry, was born. Musician .
1970 - Morte do compositor uruguaio Carlos Estrada.
1973 - The Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for its investigacion of Watergate Scandal.
1974 -Nascimento de Breckin Meyer astro do cinema internacional, em Minneapolis, Minnesota-EUA.
1975 - O brasileiro Miguel de Oliveira conquista o título mundial dos médios ligeiros em boxe.
1977 - In London, United Kingdom, Marie Myriam wins the twenty-second Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "L'oiseau et l'enfant" (The bird and the child).
1983 - Exposição Europeia de Arte, Ciência e Cultura em Lisboa - Portugal
1992 - Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay rise.
1992- Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage.
1992 - Three 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.
1998 - Eddie Rabbitt, dies. Musician
1998 - Allan MacLeod Cormack dies (b. 23 Feb 1924) .South African-born American physicist who formulated the mathematical algorithms that made possible the development of a powerful new diagnostic technique, the cross-sectional X-ray imaging process known as computerized axial tomography (CAT) scanning. For this work, he was awarded a share of the 1979 Nobel Prize
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 - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese 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.
2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., dies (b. 1909). Actor.
2002 - Seattle Slew, dies. American race horse .
2002 - A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea killing 112 people.
2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, dies (b. 1956). Polish reporter .
2004 - O divórcio é aprovado no Chile.
Russia - Radio Day (see Alexander Popov) .

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