Historical Events In May - 07

1960  On May - 07 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances  

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

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  On May - 07 michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship  

1960  USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy on this day in history.  

1962  On May - 07 pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)  

1962  On this day in history uS performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island  

1962  Jimmy Conlin, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1963  Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champion on May - 07.  

1963  SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km)) on this day in history.  

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

1967  On this day in history judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54  

1968  On this day in history lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41  

1969  On May - 07 lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA  

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

1970  Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60 on May - 07.  

1971  On this day in history willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83  

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

1973  On May - 07 uS President Nixon denies all knowledge of the Watergate affair  

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

1975  President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era" on May - 07.  

1975  Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays on May - 07.  

1977  On this day in history irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73  

1980  On May - 07 josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried  

1980  Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC on May - 07.  

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

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

1982  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on May - 07.  

1982  On this day in history alfred Adam, dies at 72  

1983  August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups on May - 07.  

1983  Peter Edel, writer, dies on May - 07.  

1984  $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit on May - 07.  

1984  On May - 07 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  On May - 07 birth of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365)  

1530  Louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots was born on May - 07.  

1574  Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55) was born on this day in history.  

1643  On this day in history birth of stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)  

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

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

1724  On this day in history birth of dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)  

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

0685  Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies on May - 07.  

0973  Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60 on May - 07.  

1092  On May - 07 death of remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown)  

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

1205  On May - 07 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 this day in history.  

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