Historical events on May 7
MAY 7, 1999
Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought
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MAY 7, 1960
Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their
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MAY 7, 1940
A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).
The Norway Debate, sometimes called the Narvik Debate, was a momentous debate in the British House of Commons from 7 to 9
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MAY 7, 1931
New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within
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MAY 7, 1798
War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast, inflicting heavy losses.
The War of the First Coalition was a set of wars that several European powers fought between 1792 and 1797, initially against
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MAY 7, 1794
French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France which began with the Estates General of 1789 and
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MAY 7, 1954
A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
Dungannon is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the county and had a population of
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MAY 7, 1487
Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
The Granada War was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492 during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I
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MAY 7, 1895
Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.
Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device.
MAY 7, 2009
Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
Napier is a city on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Hawke's Bay
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MAY 7, 1946
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.
MAY 7, 2010
A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
Neanderthals are an extinct group of archaic humans who inhabited Europe and Western and Central Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene.
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MAY 7, 1763
Pontiac, a Native American chief of the Odawa tribe, led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.
Pontiac or Obwaandi'eyaag was an Odawa war chief known for his role in the war named for him, from 1763 to 1766
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MAY 7, 1697
The 13th-century castle of Tre Kronor in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace were presented within the year.
Tre Kronor or Three Crowns Castle was a castle located in Stockholm, Sweden, on the site where Stockholm Palace is today. It
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MAY 7, 1937
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.
Fleischer Studios was an American animation studio founded in 1929 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who ran the pioneering company from
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