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May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). There are 238 days remaining.

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558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
1274 - In France the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
1763 - Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins - Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
1824Events January 22 Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast Cimetiere du Montparnasse established The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War March 17 signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824. March 11 The Un - A deaf Beethoven conducts the debut of his Ninth SymphonyThe Symphony No. 9 in D minor is the final symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven, his Opus 125. Completed in 1824, it includes part of the ode An die Freude (" Ode To Joy") by Friedrich Schiller, as text sung by soloists and a chorus in the last movement. in ViennaThis article is about the city and federal state in Austria. For other places or things called Vienna, see Vienna (disambiguation). Vienna ( German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austria's nine federal states Bundesland Wi.
1832Events February 12 Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands February 12 serious cholera epidemic begins in London from the East London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. At least 3000 victims March 24 In Hiram, Ohio a group of - GreeceGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania becomes independent. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of BavariaOtto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria and King of Greece (Salzburg, June 1, 1815 Bamberg, July 26, 1867) was made the first modern king of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London, where Greece became a new independent kingdom under the protection o is chosen KingThese are the Kings of Greece: House of Wittelsbach. Otto ( 1832- 1862) a Bavarian prince who had been offered the throne House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg George I ( 1863 1913) a Danish prince who had been offered the throne Constantine I.
1840 - The Great Natchez Tornado occurred. It is the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history. 317 people were killed.
1847 - In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
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.
1915 - World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198 people.
1920 - Polish-bolshevik war: Polish- Ukrainian troops enter Kyiv.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group , equipped with Heinkel He-51 biplanes arrive in Spain to assist Franco's forces.
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.
1947 - Kraft Television Theater debuts (ran for 11 years).
1948 - The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
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).
1960 - Cold War: U-2 Crisis - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1992 - Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the United States 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.
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.
2002 - A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea killing 112 people.

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