Page 8: Historical Events In May - 07

1960  "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances on this day in history.   

1960  On May - 07 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances   

1960  On this day in history leonid Brezhnev becomes the President of the USSR   

1960  On this day in history leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR   

1960  Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship on May - 07.   

1960  USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy on May - 07.   

1962  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)   

1962  US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island on May - 07.   

1962  Jimmy Conlin, dies at 77 on May - 07.   

1963  Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champion on this day in history.   

1963  On this day in history sETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))   

1966  On this day in history mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1   

1967  Judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54 on this day in history.   

1968  On May - 07 lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41   

1969  Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA on May - 07.   

1970  On this day in history "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release   

1970  On May - 07 carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60   

1971  Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1973  Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) on this day in history.   

1973  US President Nixon denies all knowledge of the Watergate affair on this day in history.   

1974  Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) on May - 07.   

1975  On this day in history president Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"   

1975  On this day in history small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays   

1977  Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1980  Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried on May - 07.   

1980  On May - 07 samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC   

1981  On May - 07 mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79   

1982  IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1 on this day in history.   

1982  On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1982  Alfred Adam, dies at 72 on May - 07.   

1983  On this day in history august Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups   

1983  Peter Edel, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1984  On this day in history $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit   

1984  On this day in history in Southern Italy a 5.8 earthquake killed three people and at least 100 injured, and extensive damage in the Abruzzo area   

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

1530  On May - 07 birth of louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots   

1574  On May - 07 birth of innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)   

1643  On May - 07 birth of stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)   

1700  Gerard van Swieten, Dutch botanist was born on this day in history.   

1704  Carl Heinrich Graun, composer was born on this day in history.   

1724  Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797) was born on May - 07.   

1740  On this day in history birth of nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)   

0685  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1166  Death of Willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66) on this day in history.   

1205  On this day in history ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6   

1427  Death of Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman on May - 07.   

1523  Franz von Sickingen, Germ knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42 on May - 07.   

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