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).
• 1092 - Remigius de Fécamp dies (b. unknown). First bishop of Lincoln.
• 1274 - In France the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
• 1298 - Colocation of the first stone of Barcelona's Cathedral.
• 1328 - Louis VI the Roman was born (d. 1365). Duke of Bavaria.
• 1342 - Início do pontificado do Papa Clemente VI.
• 1348 – Charles University in Prague (Universitas Carolina/Univerzita Karlova) is established as the first university in Central Europe.
• 1348 - Fundation of the Carolina University in Prague.
• 1427 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr was born. English churchman.
• 1429 - Joan of Arc leads a French attack on English bridgeheads on the south side of the Loire River.
• 1523 - Franz von Sickingen dies (b. 1481). German soldier.
• 1530 - Louis I de Bourbon was born (d. 1569). Prince de Condé, Huguenot general.
• 1539 - Guru Nanak Dev dies (b. 1469). Pakistani founder of the Sikh religion.
• 1539 - Ottaviano Petrucci dies (b. 1466). Italian printer.
• 1615 - Sanada Yukimura dies (b. 1567). Japanese samurai.
• 1617 - David Fabricius dies (b. 1564). German astronomer.
• 1643 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt was born (d. 1700). American politician.
• 1664 - Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles.
• 1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger dies (b. 1616). German composer.
• 1682 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia dies (b. 1661).
• 1697 - Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed in a huge fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced with the current Royal Palace).
• 1700 - Gerard van Swieten was born (d. 1772). Dutch-born physician.
• 1711 - David Hume was born (d. 1776). Scotish philosopher.
• 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
• 1718 - Mary of Modena dies (b. 1658). Queen of James II of England.
• 1724 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser was born (d. 1797). Austrian general.
• 1740 - Nikolai Arkharov was born (d. 1814). Russian general.
• 1748 - Olympe de Gouges was born (d. 1793). Playwright and feminist revolutionary.
• 1763 - Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins - Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
• 1763 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski was born (d. 1813). Polish prince.
• 1767 - Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia was born (d. 1820). Duchess of York and Albany.
• 1774 - William Bainbridge was born (d. 1883). American Commodore.
• 1787 - Jacques Viger was born (d. 1858). French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal.
• 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.
• 1805 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne dies (b. 1737). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1812 - Robert Browning was born (d. 1889). English poet and husband to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
• 1824 - World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. Work was conducted by Michael Umlauf, under the deaf composer's supervision.
• 1825 - Antonio Salieri dies (b. 1750). Italian composer.
• 1832 – The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
• 1832 - Greece becomes independent. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
• 1833 - Johannes Brahms was born (d. 1897). German composer.
• 1836 - The settlement of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain.
• 1840 - The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
• 1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born (d. 1893). Russian composer.
• 1840 - Caspar David Friedrich dies (b. 1774). German painter.
• 1843 - José Tomás de Sousa Martins was born in Alhandra (d. 18 Aug 1897). Portuguese physician. See Sousa Martins Monument in Lisbon.
  
• 1847 - In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
• 1847 - Archibald Primrose was born (d. 1929). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1857 - Fialho de Almeida was born in Vila de Frades (d. 1911). Portuguese writer and physician.
• 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.
• 1867 - Władysław Reymont was born (d. 1925). Polish writer, Nobel laureate.
• 1868 - Henry Peter Brougham dies (b. 1778). Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
• 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)].
• 1876 - William Buell Sprague dies (b. 1975). American clergyman and author.
• 1879 - Charles Théodore Henri de Coster dies in Brussels (b. 20 Aug 1827). Belgian novelist.
• 1880 - Morte no Rio de Janeiro do Duque de Caxias (Luiz Alves de Lima e Silva), o glorioso 'soldado' brasileiro.
• 1882 - Willem Elsschot was born (d. 1960). Flemish writer.
• 1885 - António Albino da Fonseca Benevides dies (b. 11 Fev 1816). Portuguese physician.
• 1885 - George 'Gabby' Hayes was born (d. 1969). American 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.
• 1887 - C. F. W. Walther dies (b. 1811). American Lutheran theologian.
• 1891 - Harry McShane was born (d. 1988). Scottish socialist.
• 1892 - Archibald MacLeish was born (d. 1982), American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress, Pulitzer Prize winner (three times).
• 1892 - Josip Broz Tito was born (d. 19870). President of Yugoslavia.
• 1893 - Frank J. Selke was born (d. 1985). Canadian ice hockey manager.
• 1893 - Orestes Barbosa was born (d. 15 Aug 1966). Brazilian poet and journalist.
• 1895 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the first in the world radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union this day is celebrated as Day of Radio.
• 1896 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov was born (d. 1982). Russian mathematician.
• 1896 - H. H. Holmes dies (b. 1861). American serial killer.
• 1901 - Gary Cooper was born (d. 1961). American actor.
• 1908 - Max Grundig was born (d. 1989). German engineer and industrialist who was the founder of electronics company Grundig AG.
• 1909 - Edwin H. Land was born (d. 1991). American inventor.
• 1911 - Ishiro Honda was born (d. 1993). Japanese film director.
• 1911 - José Marmelo e Silva was born in Paul, Serra da Estrela (d. 11 Oct. 1991, Espinho). Portuguese writer.
• 1914 - Sir Arthur Snelling was born (d. 1996). British Ambassador.
• 1915 – World War I: German submarine SM U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• 1916 - Argentina, Futbol - 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.
• 1916 - Huw Wheldon was born (d. 1986). British broadcaster.
• 1917 - David Tomlinson was born (d. 2000). English film actor.
• 1919 - Eva Peron was born (d. 1952). Wife of Argentine President Juan Peron.
• 1919 - É decretada a lei das 8 horas de trabalho.
• 1920 - Kiev Offensive (1920): Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudskiand Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force captured Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
• 1920 - Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
• 1922 - Darren McGavin was born. American actor.
• 1922 - Lew Anderson was born (d. 2006). American actor and bandleader.
• 1922 - Joe O'Donnell was born (d. 2007). American documentary photographer, photojournalist.
• 1922 - Max Wagenknecht dies (b. 1857). German composer.
• 1922 - Urbano Santos dies (b. 1859). Brazilian politician and Vice-President of Brazil (1914 -1918).
• 1923 - Anne Baxter was born (d. 1985). American actress.
• 1924 - Albert Band was born (d. 2002). American film director.
• 1925 - Luiz Pacheco was born in Lisbon (d. 5 Jan. 2008). Portuguese writer and editor.
  
• 1925 - William Hesketh Lever dies (b. 1851). First Viscount Leverhulme.
• 1927 - Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
• 1927 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born. German screenwriter.
• 1927 - Jim Lowe was born. American singer.
• 1928 – Dixie Dean scores a hat trick for Everton F.C. against Arsenal F.C. to set a new goal scoring record of 60 goals in a season.
• 1928 - Vicente da Câmara was born. Portuguese singer (fado).
• 1929 - Babe Parilli was born. American football player.
• 1929 - Dick Williams was born. American baseball player, manager and coach.
• 1930 - Totie Fields was born (d. 1978). American comedienne.
• 1931 - Teresa Brewer was born. American singer.
• 1932 - Pete Domenici was born. Republican senator from New Mexico.
• 1933 - Johnny Unitas was born (d. 2002). American football star.
• 1933 - Nexhmije Pagarusha was born. Albanian singer.
• 1935 - Isobel Warren was born. Canadian author.
• 1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He-51 biplanes, arrive in Spain to assist Franco's forces.
• 1937 - Claude Raymond was born. Quebec baseball player.
• 1939 - Johnny Maestro was born. American pop singer.
• 1939 - Jimmy Ruffin was born. American singer.
• 1939 - Ruggero Deodato was born. Italian film director, actor and screen writer.
• 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.
• 1940 - Angela Carter was born (d. 1992). English novelist and journalist.
• 1940 - Jim Connors was born (d. 1987). Legendary Radio personality.
• 1940 - George Lansbury dies (b. 1859). British Labour Party Leader.
• 1941 - Catherine P. Saxton was born. British-born American public relations executive.
• 1941 - Sir James George Frazer dies (b. 1854). Scottish anthropologist.
• 1942 – During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• 1942 - Gerhard Polt was born. German cabaretist.
• 1942 - Felix Weingartner dies (b. 1863). Yugoslavian conductor.
• 1943 - Harvey Andrews was born. English singer and songwriter.
• 1943 - Terry Allen was born. American country music singer.
• 1944 - Eva Norvind was born (d. 2006). Mexican actress.
• 1944 - Richard O'Sullivan was born. British actor.
• 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.
• 1945 - Christy Moore was born. Irish folk artist.
• 1945 - Robin Strasser was born. American TV soap opera actress.
• 1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.
• 1946 - Thelma Houston was born. American singer.
• 1946 - Bill Kreutzmann was born. American drummer (Grateful Dead).
• 1946 - Brian Turner was born. English celebrity chef.
• 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. American boxer and actor.
• 1950 - Tim Russert was born. American television host (Meet the Press).
• 1951 - Janis Ian was born. Singer and songwriter.
• 1951 - The International Olympic Committee gives Russia permission to compete in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
• 1951 - Robert Hegyes was born. American actor.
• 1951 - Warner Baxter dies (b. 1889). American actor.
• 1952 - The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
• 1953 - Pat McInally was born. Former National Football League player.
• 1953 - Ian McKay was born (d. 1982). British soldier (VC recipient).
• 1953 - Peryassu Ribeiro de Souza was born. Brazilian architect.
• 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.
• 1954 - Philippe Geluck was born. Belgian cartoonist.
• 1955 - Ben Poquette was born. American basketball player.
• 1955 - Tim Richmond was born. American race car driver.
• 1955 - Kevin Reed was born. American theologian.
• 1956 - Anne Dudley was born. British composer.
• 1956 - Jan Peter Balkenende was born. Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
• 1956 - Jean Lapierre was born. Canadian politician and television host.
• 1957 - Sinjin Smith was born. American profissional Beach Volleyball player.
• 1957 - Ray Fernandez was born (d. 2004). Wrestler.
• 1959 - Barbara Yung Mei-ling was born (d. 1985). Hong Kong actress.
• 1959 - Michael E. Knight was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Cold War: U-2 Crisis - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• 1960 - Almudena Grandes was born. Spanish novelist.
• 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.
• 1961 - Phil Campbell was born. British musician (Motörhead).
• 1963 - Johnny Lee Middleton was born. American musician (Savatage & Trans-Siberian Orchestra).
• 1964 - Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
• 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). Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1965 - Norman Whiteside was born. Northern Irish Footballer.
• 1967 - Joe Rice was born. Legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado.
• 1967 - Lorenzo Bandini dies (b. 1935). Italian Formula One pilot.
• 1968 - Traci Lords was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry was born. Swedish musician.
• 1969 - Rick Porras was born. American co-producer.
• 1970 - Carlos Estrada dies. Uruguyan composer.
• 1971 - Horgh (Reidar Horghagen) was born. Norwegian drummer (Immortal/Hypocrisy).
• 1972 - Felix Da Housecat was born. House music DJ and record producer.
• 1972 - Frank Trigg was born. Mixed Martial Arts Fighter.
• 1973 - The Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for its investigacion of Watergate Scandal.
• 1973 - Kristian Lundin was born. Swedish songwriter.
• 1973 - Paolo Savoldelli was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1974 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
• 1974 - Breckin Meyer was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Ian Pearce was born. English footballer.
• 1975 - O brasileiro Miguel de Oliveira conquista o título mundial dos médios ligeiros em boxe.
• 1975 - Jason Tunks was born. Canadian Olympic discus thrower.
• 1975 - Nicole Sheridan was born. American porn star.
• 1975 - Zee was born. American hip hop artist.
• 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).
• 1977 - Lisa Kelly was born. Irish singer.
• 1978 - Brian Clevinger was born. American author.
• 1978 - Shawn Marion was born. American basketball player.
• 1978 - Stian Arnesen was born. Norwegian Black Metal musician (Nagash/Lex Icon).
• 1979 - Katie Douglas was born. American basketball player.
• 1980 - Johan Kenkhuis was born. Dutch swimmer.
• 1980 - Kate Lawler was born. English reality television personality and disc jockey.
• 1982 - Akos Buzsaky was born. Hungarian football player.
• 1983 - É inaugurada em, Lisboa, Portugal a XVII Exposição Europeia de Arte, Ciência e Cultura do Conselho da Europa, subordinada ao tema Os Descobrimentos Portugueses e a Europa do Renascimento.
• 1984 - Alex Smith was born. American football player.
• 1984 - Drew Stanton was born. American football player.
• 1984 - James Loney was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 – May7ven was born. Nigerian born, British singer-songwriter and dancer.
• 1985 – Dan Sweetman was born. Australian television host.
• 1985 - Drew Neitzel was born. American college basketball player.
• 1985 - Carlos Mota Pinto dies (b. 1936). Portuguese professor and politician.
• 1986 – Canadian Patrick Morrow became the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
• 1986 - Mark Furze was born. Australian actor.
• 1986 - Matt Helders was born. Musician, Drummer for Arctic Monkeys.
• 1986 - Jeffrey Mylett dies (b. 1949). American actor.
• 1987 - Dennis Mak was born. Chinese singer (Sun Boy'z).
• 1987 - Michael Maidens was born (d. 2007). English footballer.
• 1987 - Colin Blakely dies (b. 1930). British actor.
• 1988 – Natalie Mejia was born. American dancer and singer (Girlicious)
• 1989 – Master Shortie was born. British hip-hop and R&B singer-songwriter and rapper.
• 1989 - Guy Williams dies (b. 1924). American actor.
• 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.
• 1992 – Latvia conducted its first post-Soviet monetary reform and began issuing Latvian rublis, a temporary currency in use until the introduction of Latvian lats. The move reduced the pressure on Latvian economy caused by shortage of cash and hyperinflation of rouble, and led way to ultimately successful economic reforms.
• 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 – Alexander Ludwig was born. American actor.
• 1995 - Jacques Chirac is elected President of France.
• 1995 - Ray McKinley dies (b. 1910). American jaz drummer, singer and bandleader.
• 1998 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• 1998 - Eddie Rabbitt dies (b. 1941). American musician
• 1998 - Allan McLeod 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 - Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope that had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
• 1999 - In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
• 2000 – Maxwell Perry Cotton was born. American child actor.
• 2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. dies (b. 1909). American actor.
• 2002 - Seattle Slew dies. American race horse.
• 2002 - A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea killing 112 people.
• 2002 - Seattle Slew dies (b. 1974). American racehorse.
• 2002 - Kevyn Aucoin dies (b. 1962). Makeup artist and photographer.
• 2004 - Waldemar Milewicz dies (b. 1956). Polish reporter.
• 2004 - Chileans granted right to divorce: President Lagos has signed a new law giving Chileans the right to divorce, despite opposition from the Catholic Church.
• 2005 - Former Lebanese Prime Minister, General Michel Aoun returns to Lebanon after 15 years in exile.
• 2005 - Tristan Egolf dies (b. 1971). American writer.
• 2005 - Otilino Tenorio dies (b. 1980). Ecuadorian football (soccer) player.
• 2005 - Peter W. Rodino dies (b. 1909). American politician.
• 2006 - Richard Carleton dies (b. 1943). Australian news reporter.
• 2006 - Joan C. Edwards dies (b. 1918). American philanthropist.
• 2006 - Machiko Soga dies (b. 1943). Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend.
• 2006 - António de Vasconcelos Xavier dies (b. 1943). Portuguese biochemist.
• 2006 - Rolling Stone magazine publishes its 1000th issue.
• 2007 - The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
• 2007 - Diego Corrales dies (b. 1977). American boxer.
• 2007 - Octavian Paler dies (b. 1926). Romanian writer and journalist.
• 2007 - Yahweh ben Yahweh dies (b. 1935). American cult leader.
• 2009 – David Mellor dies (b. 1930). English cutlery designer.
  
• Russia -День радио Radio Day (commemorating the work of Alexander Popov).
• Bulgaria - Radio and Television Day.
• Pahang (Malaysia): Hari Hol.