This Day in History for 7th May

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 207

558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
1274 - 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
1355 - 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1416 - Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
1429 - English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc
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
1664 - Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles.
1697 - Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced by the current Royal Palace).
1700 - William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
1718 - The city of New Orleans was founded by 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 - Adm Nelsons flagship HMS Victory launched
1771 - Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
1775 - Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
First US President George Washington 1789 - 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in NYC)
1792 - Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
1800 - Indiana Territory organized
1824 - Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
1832 - Greece becomes independent republic
1832 - Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece
1836 - The settlement of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain.
1840 - Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317
1847 - American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
1848 - Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1856 - Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
1861 - Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
1862 - Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1862 - Much of Enschede Neth destroyed by fire
1864 - Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn 1864 - Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)
1866 - German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
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 - Cin Enquirer, 1st uses term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory
1885 - John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
1888 - Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys," premieres in Paris
1888 - George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1891 - Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
1895 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1902 - Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
1904 - Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1907 - Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
1909 - Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck 1910 - 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1913 - British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
1914 - US Congress establishes mother's day
1915 - Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
1917 - Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Wash Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1920 - USSR recognizes Georgia's independence
1921 - 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2
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 - Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
1925 - Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
1927 - SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
1927 - Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
1928 - The United Kingdom lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1928 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
1930 - Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins
1932 - 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2
1934 - Neth Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal
1934 - Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
1934 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)
1934 - World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1938 - 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8
1938 - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1939 - Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1941 - British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
1941 - Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
1941 - Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942 - Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
1943 - British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
1943 - Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
1943 - Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
1943 - US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
1943 - US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia
1944 - German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1945 - Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
1945 - British troops pull into Utrecht Neth
1945 - Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 - Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
1945 - Nazi generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
1945 - Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Neth
1945 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
1945 - SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
1946 - William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
1947 - "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
1947 - General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1947 - Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 207

1328 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365)
1530 - Louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots
1574 - Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)
1643 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)
1700 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch botanist
1704 - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer
1724 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)
1740 - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
1748 - Olympe de Gouges, playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)
1763 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general/marshal of France (d. 1813)
1767 - Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1820)
1769 - Giuseppe Farinelli, composer
1774 - William Bainbridge, American Commodore (d. 1833)
1787 - Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
1795 - Gerhard M Roentgen, industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord)
1803 - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer
1812 - Robert Browning, London England, poet (Pied Piper)
1826 - Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
1827 - Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1832 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist (Neumann-functions)
1833 - Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer
Composer Tchaikovsky (1840) 1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk, Russia, composer (1812 Overture, Swan Lake), (d. 1893) [NS]
1845 - Jacob van Stolk Azn, timber merchant/art collector
1847 - Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)
1857 - William A. MacCorkle, American politician (d. 1930)
1866 - Cornelis J K van Aalst, president (Dutch Trading Company)
1867 - Philippine "Pine" Belder, [Mary de Klerk], actress (Hope of Blessing)
1873 - Clarence Dickinson, composer
1882 - Willem Elsschot, [Alfons J de Ridder], Flemish writer (Mend)
1883 - Gino Roncaglia, composer
1883 - Martin Albertz, German theologist (Church Jesus Christ)
1885 - George "Gabby" Hayes, Wellesvile NY, actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso)
1887 - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
1890 - Billy House, Minn, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I)
1891 - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (d. 1988)
1892 - Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB)
1892 - Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
1893 - Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (d. 1985)
1897 - Kitty McKane, England, tennis (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-1920, 24)
1898 - Vera Chapman, writer
1900 - Bauke Tuinstra, Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur)
1900 - Ralph Truman, London England, actor (Web of Evidence)
1901 - Gary Cooper, Montana, actor (2 Acad Awards-Sgt York, High Noon)
1901 - L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
1901 - Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer
1902 - Sal Gliatto, baseball player
1903 - Basil Nield, judge/politician
1907 - Jef van Durme, composer
1908 - Ed MacDonald, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1908 - Wouter Paap, composer
1909 - Edwin H Land, inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
1911 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993)
1912 - Paul H F Brenneker, Neth/Antillian photographer/folklorist
1914 - Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (d. 1996)
1916 - Huw Wheldon, British broadcaster (d. 1986)
1917 - David Tomlinson, Scotland, actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter)
1917 - William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert
1918 - Argeliers Leon, composer
Actress/First Lady Eva Peron-Duarte (1919) 1919 - Eva Peron-Duarte [Evita], Argentina, 1st lady/actress, (d. 1952)
1921 - Gale Robbins, Chic, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex)
1922 - Darren McGavin, Spokane Wash, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182)
1922 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (d. 2006)
1922 - Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. 2007)
1923 - Anne Baxter, Mich City Ind, actr (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
1923 - Pete V Domenici, (Sen-R-NM, 1973- )
1924 - Albert Band, American film director (d. 2002)
1926 - Val Bisoglio, NYC, actor (Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME)
1927 - Jim Lowe, Springfield Mass, DJ (WNEW) "King of Trivia"
1927 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter
1927 - Jim Lowe, American singer
1928 - John Ingle, actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital), (d. 2012)
1928 - Marvin Mitchelson, attorney
1929 - Dick Williams, baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
1929 - Sally L Smith, educator/founder (Lab School of Wash)
1929 - Babe Parilli, American football player
1930 - Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets, Russia, cosmonaut
1930 - Horst Bienek, German poet
1930 - Totie Fields, American comedienne (d. 1978)
1931 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete)
1931 - Nel J Ginjaar-Maas, Dutch under-secretary of Education (VVD)
1931 - Teresa Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
1932 - Hans Boskamp, [Johan HG Hoelscher], actor/producer (Oh My Papa)
1932 - Pete Domenici, Republican senator from New Mexico
1933 - Johnny Unitas, NFL QB (Balt Colts, San Diego); one of the greats
1933 - Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer
1934 - Ben Smith, Atlanta GA, PGA golfer (Ralphs Senior Classic-4th)
1934 - Donald Russell Holler, composer
1934 - Heinz Marti, composer
1934 - Willard Scott, weatherman (Today)
1935 - Kevin O'Connor, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
1935 - Isobel Warren, Canadian author
1936 - Cornelius Cardew, composer
1937 - Claude Raymond, Quebec baseball player
1938 - Johnny Caldwell, Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1939 - Jimmy Ruffin, vocalist (What Becomes of Broken Hearted)
1939 - Johnny Maestro, NY rock vocalist (Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge)
1939 - Marco St John, New Orleans La, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
1939 - Rudolphus FM "Ruud" Lubbers, director Dutch/CDA-premier (1982-94)
1939 - Volker Braun, writer
1939 - Sidney Altman, Canadian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 11 of 11

1914 - 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in The White House
1958 - "The Mark of Zorro" actor Tyrone Power (44) weds Debbie Ann Minardos
1994 - Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)
1994 - Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
1995 - Eldest son of Shirley Jones and screenplay writer Shaun Cassidy (36) weds actress Susan Diol (30) in Westwood, California
2005 - "Growing Pains" actress Alan Thicke (58) weds model Tanya Callau at The One and Only Palmilla Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2005 - Country music singer Billy Dean (43) weds Stephanie Paisley at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens in Nashville, Tennessee
2005 - Lawyer Bobby Shriver (51) weds artist Malissa Feruzzi (41) in Los Angeles
2006 - Actress Tori Spelling (32) weds actor Dean McDermott (39) at Wakaya Club in Wakaya Island, Fiji
2011 - "The Amazing Race" winners Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney marry at the Hard Rock Hotel, San Diego
2012 - Former "Dexter" actress Julie Benz (40) weds marketing executive Rich Orosco (39) at the historic John Sowden house in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 104

685 - Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies
973 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60
1092 - Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown)
1166 - Willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)
1205 - Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6
1427 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
1523 - Franz von Sickingen, Germ knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42
1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
1539 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
1617 - David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53
1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist/singer/composer, dies at 50
1671 - Edward Montagu, English baron Kimbolton, dies at about 68
1671 - Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of Opperkrijgshof, dies at 62
1673 - Johannes Teellinck, Dutch vicar, dies at about 58
1682 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
1718 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658)
1736 - John Weldon, composer, dies at 60
1792 - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82
1793 - Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68
1793 - Pietro Nardini, composer, dies at 71
1800 - Laurens P van Spiegel, regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64
1800 - Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
1805 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
1814 - Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer, dies at 79
1818 - Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer, dies at 70
1825 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74
1836 - Norbert Burgmuller, composer, dies at 26
1840 - Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
1863 - Amiel Weeks Whipple, US Union gen-major, dies of injuries at 46
1868 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
1871 - Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies
1876 - Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
1876 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
1884 - Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72
1887 - C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
1896 - H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) , American serial killer (b. 1860)
1900 - Richard Storrs Willis, composer, dies at 81
1904 - Peter Hille, writer, dies
1914 - Edward Mollenhauer, composer, dies at 87
1915 - Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
1915 - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US Lusitania officer, dies
1915 - Charles Frohman, dies aboard Lusitania
1922 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
1925 - William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851)
1928 - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer, dies at 56
Gangster Al Capone (1929) 1929 - Albert Anselmi, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 - John Scalise, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 - Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1932 - Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies
1934 - Edward Naylor, composer, dies at 67
1940 - George Lansbury, Labour Party Leader (b. 1859)
1941 - David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
1941 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)
1942 - Felix Paul von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79
1946 - Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed
1946 - Joe Humphries, cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for Engld 1907-08), dies
1951 - Warner Baxter, dies at 62
1953 - Ormerod Pearse, cricketer (55 runs & 3 wkts in 3 Tests for S Af), dies
1958 - Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
1962 - Jimmy Conlin, dies at 77
1967 - Judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54
1967 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935)
1968 - Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41
1970 - Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
1977 - Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79
1982 - Alfred Adam, dies at 72
1983 - Peter Edel, writer, dies
1985 - Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
1986 - Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75
1986 - Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (b. 1949
1987 - Colin Blakely, dies at 56
1988 - Harris Glenn Divine, dies of natural causes at 42
1990 - Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60
1993 - Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
1994 - Clement Greenberg, US art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85
1994 - Margaret Skeete, oldest American, dies at 115
1995 - Ernest H Martin, impressario, dies at 75
1995 - Lawrence Josset, engraver, dies at 84
1995 - Maria Luisa Bemberg, fil maker, dies at 73
1995 - Ray McKinley, drummer, dies at 84
1996 - Albert Meltzer, anarchist, dies at 76
1996 - Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
1996 - Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76
1998 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)
1998 - Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
2002 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974)
2002 - Kevyn Aucoin, Makeup Artist and Photographer (b. 1962)
2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956)
2005 - Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971)
2005 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
2005 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
2006 - Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943)
2006 - Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918)
2006 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943)
2007 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
2007 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1926)
2007 - Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (b. 1935)