Historical Events In May - 07

2005  Plane Crash in Lockhart River, Australia kills 15 people on this day in history.  

2006  On May - 07 richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943)  

2007  On this day in history chinese slave scandal.  

2010  Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred on this day in history.  

2012  On this day in history nATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province  

2013  55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria on this day in history.  

2014  Fighting between pro-Russian and Kiev forces continue amid fears internationally of a civil war in the Ukraine on this day in history.  

2017  Emmanuel Macron wins France's presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen on May - 07.  

2017  MTV becomes 1st major awards show to adopt gender-neutral categories - Emma Watson best film actor, Millie Bobby Brown best TV actor on May - 07.  

2017  On this day in history “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” becomes the highest grossing Indian box-office film ever earning $120 million  

2018  On this day in history vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years  

2018  On this day in history more mudslides in Rwanda kill 18 people bringing the year's death toll to 200  

2018  Global tourism accounts for 8% of the world's carbon emissions according to a University of Sydney study on May - 07.  

2018  World Snooker Championship: Welshman Mark Williams wins beating John Higgins 18-16 in Sheffield and, as promised, does his press conference in the nude on this day in history.  

2018  Iran-Contra figure Oliver North announced as the new President of the US National Rifle Association on May - 07.  

2018  Met Gala 2018 "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination' is hosted by Anna Wintour , Amal Clooney, Donatella Versace and Rihanna wearing a Pope-inspired outfit on May - 07.  

2020  Eleven people die and over 5,000 fall ill from a styrene gas leak from an LG Polymers chemical plant in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, India on May - 07.  

2021  On this day in history philadelphia Museum of Art unveils major interior renovation and expansion designed by American architect Frank Gehry  

2021  COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization gives emergency use listing to the Sinopharm BIBP COVID-19 vaccine, the first non–Western vaccine to be authorized on May - 07.  

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1328  Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365) was born on May - 07.  

1530  On this day in history birth of louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots  

1574  Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55) was born on May - 07.  

1643  Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700) was born on this day in history.  

1700  On this day in history birth of gerard van Swieten, Dutch botanist  

1704  On May - 07 birth of carl Heinrich Graun, composer  

1724  Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797) was born on this day in history.  

1740  Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814) was born on this day in history.  

0685  On May - 07 marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies  

0973  On this day in history otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60  

1092  Death of Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown) on May - 07.  

1166  On this day in history death of willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)  

1205  Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6 on May - 07.  

1427  On this day in history death of thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman  

1523  On May - 07 franz von Sickingen, Germ knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42  

1539  On May - 07 death of guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)