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Thursday, 07 May 2026
1983 Propane gas fire devastated 16 blocks of Buffalo. 
1983 Walter Scott, rocker, dies
1985 Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports. President Reagan blamed Libyan leader Momar Qadhafi
1985 Dian Fossey, US naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), are discovered dead in Rwanda
1986 Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, composer, dies at 78
1987 Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91.
1988 Bulgaria formally ends jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades.
1988 Fox Harris, actor (Alienator, Warlords, Sid and Nancy), dies.
1989 Egypt resumes full diplomatic relations with Syria, after a ten year break
1990 Barbara McDougall announces a five-year $332 million agreement to give Quebec control of cultural integration of immigrants to the province
1990 San Francisco became the inaugural city to adopt regulations regarding video display terminals in the workplace.
1991 Edward M Love, choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43.
1992 Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, Engl comedian (Alfie), dies at 75
1993 Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50.
1994 Hans Berghuis, author/poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70.
1995 Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster, dies at 39.
1997 Brendan Gill, journalist, dies at 83.
2007 Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, and at least 20 others are killed by a bomb blast at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
2007 Presidential and parliamentary elections took place in Kenya.
2012 NASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025.
2019 Corporate defaults on corporate bonds in China reach a new record.
2019 At least 12 die in a plane crash in Kazakhstan.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 80 million worldwide.
2024 Acting President of South Korea Han Duck-soo is impeached by MPs for failing to promulgate two bills related to president Yoon's legal proceedings. He is succeeded by deputy prime minister Choi Sang-mok.
