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May 7, 2005 The Huffington Post weblog makes it's debut
May 7, 2002 China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112
May 7, 1997 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
May 7, 1997 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)
May 7, 1996 Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
May 7, 1995 "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater New York City after 8 performances
May 7, 1995 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
May 7, 1995 Michelle McGann wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
May 7, 1995 Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours and 36 minutes
May 7, 1994 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6
May 7, 1994 Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle)
May 7, 1994 Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen
May 7, 1994 Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)
May 7, 1994 Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
May 7, 1993 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
May 7, 1992 5 New York City cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
May 7, 1992 Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
May 7, 1992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
May 7, 1992 U.S. space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
May 7, 1991 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
May 7, 1991 Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
May 7, 1989 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
May 7, 1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet
May 7, 1989 Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
May 7, 1988 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2
May 7, 1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
May 7, 1987 105 degrees F in Sacramento, California
May 7, 1987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
May 7, 1986 Bucharest wins 31st Europe Cup I
May 7, 1986 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
May 7, 1984 $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
May 7, 1984 Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic
May 7, 1983 109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Sunny's Halo wins in 2:02.2
May 7, 1983 August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
May 7, 1983 Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles win series 4-2
May 7, 1982 "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore New York City for 12 performances
May 7, 1982 Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing
May 7, 1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
May 7, 1982 Oakland Raiders to move to Los Angeles
May 7, 1982 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 7, 1980 Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried
May 7, 1980 Samm-Art Williams' "Home," premieres in New York City
May 7, 1979 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
May 7, 1979 Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
May 7, 1977 "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 75 performances
May 7, 1977 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2
May 7, 1975 Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
May 7, 1975 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
May 7, 1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
May 7, 1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
May 7, 1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
May 7, 1972 26th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1
May 7, 1972 Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic
May 7, 1970 "Long and Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
May 7, 1969 2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1
May 7, 1969 Robert E. Cushman, Jr., becomes deputy director of CIA
May 7, 1967 Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
May 7, 1966 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
May 7, 1966 Mamas and Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
May 7, 1966 Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
May 7, 1965 WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting
May 7, 1963 Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ
May 7, 1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
May 7, 1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
May 7, 1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
May 7, 1961 "Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 27 performances
May 7, 1961 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
May 7, 1960 "Christine" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 12 performances
May 7, 1960 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 602 performances
May 7, 1960 "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 21 performances
May 7, 1960 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
May 7, 1960 Dodgers Larry and Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
May 7, 1960 Los Angeles Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry
May 7, 1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of U.S.S.R.
May 7, 1960 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12 -8 for world chess championship
May 7, 1960 U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
May 7, 1958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
May 7, 1957 Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald
May 7, 1957 Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K)
May 7, 1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
May 7, 1956 New York Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat
May 7, 1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
May 7, 1955 81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8
May 7, 1955 U.S.S.R. signs peace treaty with France and Great-Britain
May 7, 1955 West Europe Union established
May 7, 1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
May 7, 1954 U.S., Great Britain and France reject Russian membership in NATO
May 7, 1953 "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 892 performances
May 7, 1953 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile
May 7, 1951 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
May 7, 1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
May 7, 1949 75th Kentucky Derby: Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 2:04.2
May 7, 1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death
May 7, 1947 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
May 7, 1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
May 7, 1947 Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt
May 7, 1946 William H. Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
May 7, 1945 Branch Rickey announces formation of the U.S. Negro Baseball League
May 7, 1945 British troops pull into Utrecht, Netherlands
May 7, 1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
May 7, 1945 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
May 7, 1945 Nazi generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender
May 7, 1945 Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Neth
May 7, 1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
May 7, 1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
May 7, 1944 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
May 7, 1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
May 7, 1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
May 7, 1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
May 7, 1943 U.S. 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia
May 7, 1943 U.S. 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia
May 7, 1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
May 7, 1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
May 7, 1941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
May 7, 1941 Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
May 7, 1941 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
May 7, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
May 7, 1939 Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
May 7, 1938 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8
May 7, 1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
May 7, 1934 Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal
May 7, 1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
May 7, 1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)
May 7, 1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
May 7, 1932 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2
May 7, 1930 Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex vs. Northants in 330 mins
May 7, 1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
May 7, 1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
May 7, 1927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
May 7, 1925 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
May 7, 1925 Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
May 7, 1924 Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
May 7, 1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
May 7, 1922 Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2
May 7, 1922 New York Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
May 7, 1921 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2
May 7, 1920 U.S.S.R. recognizes Georgia's independence
May 7, 1917 Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
May 7, 1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
May 7, 1914 U.S. Congress establishes mother's day
May 7, 1914 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in White House
May 7, 1913 British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
May 7, 1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
May 7, 1910 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6
May 7, 1909 Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
May 7, 1907 Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
May 7, 1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
May 7, 1902 Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent kills 2-5,000
May 7, 1891 Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
May 7, 1888 Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys," premieres in Paris
May 7, 1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
May 7, 1885 John E. W. Thompson, named minister to Haiti
May 7, 1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
May 7, 1873 U.S. Marines attack Panama
May 7, 1867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
May 7, 1866 German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
May 7, 1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
May 7, 1864 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)
May 7, 1862 Battle of West Point, Virginia (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
May 7, 1862 Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire
May 7, 1861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist and Union supporters in Knoxville TN
May 7, 1856 Argentine and Brazilian sign a navigation pact
May 7, 1848 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
May 7, 1847 American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
May 7, 1840 Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317
May 7, 1832 Greece becomes independent republic
May 7, 1832 Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece
May 7, 1824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
May 7, 1800 Indiana Territory organized
May 7, 1792 Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
May 7, 1789 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in New York City)
May 7, 1775 Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
May 7, 1771 Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
May 7, 1765 Adm Nelsons sailboat HMS Victory runs aground
May 7, 1748 French troops conquer Maastricht
May 7, 1727 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
May 7, 1700 William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
May 7, 1663 Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens
May 7, 1660 Isaack B. Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
May 7, 1638 Cornelis S. Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
May 7, 1624 Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
May 7, 1579 Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
May 7, 1429 English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc
May 7, 1416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
May 7, 1355 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
May 7, 1274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens



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