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On this day: May 7th

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351 The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.

558 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.

1274 In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope.

1487 The Siege of Málaga (1487) commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

1544 The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.

1625 Death and funeral of James VI and I of James VI and I (1566-1625) is held at Westminster Abbey.

1664 Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV of France's new Palace of Versailles.

1685 Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.

1697 Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to Middle Ages times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Stockholm Palace.

1718 The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.

1763 Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac (Ottawa leader)'s attempt to Siege of Fort Detroit Fort Detroit from the British.

1765 HMS Victory is launched at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. She is not commissioned until 1778.

1794 French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

1798 French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf.

1824 World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.

1832 Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London, 1832.

1840 The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.

1846 The ''Cambridge Chronicle'', America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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.

1864 The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the ''City of Adelaide (1864)'' is launched by William Pile (shipbuilder) in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.

1895 In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.

1915 World War I: German submarine Sinking of the RMS Lusitania RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.

1915 The Republic of China (1912–1949) accedes to 13 of the Twenty-One Demands # Japanese ultimatum, extending the Empire of Japan control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.

1920 Polish–Soviet War: Kiev offensive (1920): Second Polish Republic troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian People's Republic force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.

1920 Treaty of Moscow (1920): Russian SFSR recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

1930 The 7.1 1930 Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale of IX (''Violent''). Up to three-thousand people were killed.

1931 The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.

1937 Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.

1940 World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.

1942 World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

1945 World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

1945 World War II: ''Generalfeldmarschall'' Wilhelm Keitel signs German Instrument of Surrender at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.

1946 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.

1948 The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress (1948).

1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

1954 Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).

1960 Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American Lockheed U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

1964 Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.

1986 Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.

1991 A Bright Sparklers Fireworks disaster at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.

1992 Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution law. This amendment bars the United States Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.

1992 Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle ''Space Shuttle Endeavour'' is launched on its first mission, STS-49.

1992 Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are Sydney River McDonald's murders and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.

1994 Edvard Munch's painting ''The Scream'' is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.

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

1999 Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox Church country since the East–West Schism in 1054.

1999 Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in Belgrade.

1999 In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.

2000 Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.

2002 An EgyptAir Flight 843 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.

2002 A China Northern Airlines Flight 6136 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

2004 American businessman Nick Berg is decapitation by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.

Before 160 Julia Maesa, Roman noblewoman (d. 224)

1488 John III of the Palatinate, archbishop of Regensburg (d. 1538)

1530 Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569) (d. 1569)

1553 Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (d. 1618)

1605 Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (d. 1681)

1643 Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (d. 1700)

1700 Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (d. 1772)

1701 Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (d. 1759)

1711 David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1776)

1724 Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (d. 1797)

1740 Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police officer and general (d. 1814)

1748 Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and philosopher (d. 1793)

1751 Stephen Badlam, American artisan and military officer (d. 1815)

1763 Józef Poniatowski, Polish general (d. 1813)

1767 Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820)

1774 William Bainbridge, American commodore (d. 1833)

1787 Jacques Viger (1787–1858), Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)

1812 Robert Browning, English poet and playwright (d. 1889)

1833 Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (d. 1897)

1836 Joseph Gurney Cannon, American lawyer and politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1926)

1837 Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (d. 1875)

1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator (d. 1893)

1845 Mary Eliza Mahoney, American nurse and activist (d. 1926)

1847 Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929)

1857 William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930)

1860 Tom Norman, English businessman (d. 1930)

1861 Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1941)

1867 Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1925)

1875 William Hoyt (athlete), American pole vaulter (d. 1951)

1880 Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (d. 1972)

1881 George E. Wiley, American cyclist (d. 1954)

1882 Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet (d. 1960)

1885 George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (d. 1969)

1889 Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (d. 1943)

1891 Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)

1892 Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (d. 1982)

1892 Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)

1893 Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1985)

1896 Kathleen McKane Godfree, English tennis and badminton player (d. 1992)

1899 Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (d. 1998)

1901 Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)

1903 Nikolay Zabolotsky, Russian-Soviet poet and translator (d. 1958)

1905 Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (d. 1989)

1909 Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (d. 1991)

1909 Dorothy Sunrise Lorentino, Native American teacher (d. 2005)

1911 Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)

1913 Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer (d. 2016)

1917 Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (d. 2013)

1917 Lenox Hewitt, Australian public servant (d. 2020)

1917 David Tomlinson (actor), English actor (d. 2000)

1919 Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)

1920 Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (d. 1985)

1922 Darren McGavin, American actor and director (d. 2006)

1923 Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)

1927 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)

1929 Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2011)

1930 Babe Parilli, American football player and coach (d. 2017)

1931 Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007)

1931 Gene Wolfe, American author (d. 2019)

1932 Pete Domenici, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Albuquerque (d. 2017)

1932 Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (d. 1997)

1933 Johnny Unitas, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2002)

1935 Michael Hopkins (architect), English architect (d. 2023)

1936 Tony O'Reilly, Irish rugby player and businessman

1939 Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2022)

1939 Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2022)

1939 Ruud Lubbers, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)

1939 Johnny Maestro, American pop/doo-wop singer (d. 2010)

1940 Angela Carter, English novelist and short story writer (d. 1992)

1943 Terry Allen (artist), American singer and painter

1943 John Bannon, Australian academic and politician, 39th Premier of South Australia (d. 2015)

1943 Peter Carey (novelist), Australian novelist and short story writer

1945 Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist

1945 Robin Strasser, American actress

1946 Thelma Houston, American R&B/disco singer and actress

1946 Marv Hubbard, American football player (d. 2015)

1946 Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer

1946 Michael Rosen, English author and poet

1950 John Coates (sports administrator), Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman

1950 Tim Russert, American television journalist and lawyer (d. 2008)

1954 Amy Heckerling, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1956 Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch jurist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

1956 Anne Dudley, English pianist and composer

1956 Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer

1956 Jean Lapierre, Canadian talk show host and politician (d. 2016)

1958 Anne Marie Rafferty, English nurse and academic

1960 Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, Iraqi-English surgeon and academic

1960 Almudena Grandes, Spanish author (d. 2021)

1961 Sue Black (forensic anthropologist), Scottish anthropologist and academic

1965 Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1999)

1965 Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer and manager

1967 Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer

1967 Joe Rice, American colonel and politician

1968 Traci Lords, American actress and singer

1968 Lisa Raitt, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Minister of Transport (Canada)

1969 Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter

1971 Thomas Piketty, French economist

1972 Frank Trigg, American mixed martial artist and wrestler

1974 Breckin Meyer, American actor, writer, and producer

1976 Calvin Booth, American basketball player and executive

1976 Stacey Jones, New Zealand rugby league player

1976 Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2005)

1976 Ayelet Shaked, former Israeli Minister of Justice

1978 Shawn Marion, American basketball player

1979 Katie Douglas (basketball), American basketball player

1984 James Loney, American baseball player

1984 Kevin Owens, Canadian wrestler

1984 Alex Smith, American football player

1985 J Balvin, Colombian singer-songwriter and producer

1986 Matt Helders, English drummer

1987 Aidy Bryant, American actress and comedian

1987 Mark Reynolds (footballer, born 1987), Scottish footballer

1989 Earl Thomas, American football player

1990 Sydney Leroux, Canadian-American footballer

1992 Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor and musician

1993 Will Ospreay, English wrestler

1993 Ajla Tomljanovic, Australian tennis player

1995 Seko Fofana, Ivorian international footballer

1996 Faker (gamer), South Korean ''League of Legends'' gamer

1997 Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player

1997 Youri Tielemans, Belgian footballer

1997 Cameron Young, American golfer

1998 MrBeast, American YouTuber

1998 Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer

1998 Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player

1999 Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer

2004 Ashlyn Krueger, American tennis player

721 John of Beverley, bishop of Diocese of York

833 Ibn Hisham, Egyptian Muslim historian

973 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)

1014 Bagrat III of Georgia, 1st King of Georgia (b. 960)

1092 Remigius de Fécamp, English monk and bishop

1166 William I of Sicily

1202 Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey

1205 Ladislaus III of Hungary (b. 1201)

1234 Otto I, Duke of Merania (b. c. 1180)

1243 Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel

1427 Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English priest (b. 1352)

1494 Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1471)

1523 Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481)

1539 Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)

1617 David Fabricius, German astronomer and theologian (b. 1564)

1667 Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer (b. 1616)

1682 Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)

1685 Bajo Pivljanin (b. 1630)

1718 Mary of Modena (b. 1658)

1793 Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1722)

1800 Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)

1805 William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1737)

1815 Jabez Bowen, American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1739)

1825 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1750)

1840 Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and educator (b. 1774)

1868 Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor (b. 1778)

1872 Alexander Loyd, American carpenter and politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)

1876 William Buell Sprague, American clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1795)

1887 C. F. W. Walther, German-American religious leader and theologian (b. 1811)

1896 H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861)

1902 Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (b. 1818)

1917 Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)

1922 Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)

1924 Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)

1925 William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)

1937 Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)

1938 Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)

1940 George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)

1941 James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)

1942 Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)

1943 Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd List of Prime Ministers of Turkey (b. 1880)

1946 Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)

1951 Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)

1967 Margaret Larkin, American writer and poet (b. 1899)

1958 Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1880)

1976 Alison Uttley, English children's book writer (b. 1884)

1978 Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (b. 1915)

1986 Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (b. 1915)

1987 Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)

1987 Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (b. 1941)

1990 Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1932)

1994 Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)

1995 Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)

1998 Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1924)

1998 Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)

2000 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)

2001 Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (b. 1912)

2004 Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist (b. 1956)

2005 Tristan Egolf, American author and activist (b. 1971)

2005 Peter W. Rodino, American captain and politician (b. 1909)

2005 Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)

2006 Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)

2006 Joan C. Edwards, American singer and philanthropist (b. 1918)

2007 Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (b. 1958)

2007 Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)

2007 Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1926)

2007 Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader, founded the Nation of Yahweh (b. 1935)

2009 David Mellor (designer), English designer (b. 1930)

2009 Danny Ozark, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1923)

2011 Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)

2011 Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1924)

2011 Big George, English songwriter, producer, and radio host (b. 1957)

2011 Victor Nosach, Soviet historian (b. 1929)

2012 Sammy Barr, Scottish trade union leader (b. 1931)

2012 Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist and politician (b. 1943)

2012 Dennis E. Fitch, American captain and pilot (b. 1942)

2013 Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1948)

2013 George Sauer, Jr., American football player (b. 1943)

2014 Neville McNamara, Australian air marshal (b. 1923)

2014 Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (b. 1943)

2014 Dick Welteroth, American baseball player (b. 1927)

2015 Frank DiPascali, American businessman (b. 1956)

2015 John Dixon (cartoonist), Australian-American author and illustrator (b. 1929)

2023 Aase Foss Abrahamsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1930)

2024 Steve Albini, American musician, record producer, audio engineer, and music journalist (b. 1962)

Christian feast day:

- Agathius

- Agostino Roscelli

- Pope Benedict II

- Flavia Domitilla (saint)

- Gisela of Hungary

- Harriet Starr Cannon (Episcopal Church (USA))

- John of Beverley

- Rose Venerini

- Stanislaus of Szczepanów (Roman Martyrology)

- May 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)

Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)

Radio Day, commemorating the work of Alexander Stepanovich Popov (Russia, Bulgaria)

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