Historical Events In May - 07

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

1960  "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances on this day in history.  

1960  On May - 07 leonid Brezhnev becomes the President of the USSR  

1960  Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR on this day in history.  

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  Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) on this day in history.  

1962  US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island on this day in history.  

1962  On this day in history jimmy Conlin, dies at 77  

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

1963  On May - 07 sETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))  

1966  On May - 07 mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1  

1967  Judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54 on May - 07.  

1968  On this day in history 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  "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release on May - 07.  

1970  On this day in history 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 May - 07.  

1974  On May - 07 pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)  

1975  President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era" on this day in history.  

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

1977  On May - 07 irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73  

1980  Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried on this day in history.  

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

1981  Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1982  On this day in history iBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1  

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

1982  Alfred Adam, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1983  August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups on this day in history.  

1983  On this day in history peter Edel, writer, dies  

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

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

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1328  On this day in history birth of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365)  

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

1700  Gerard van Swieten, Dutch botanist was born on May - 07.  

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

1724  On May - 07 birth of dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)  

1740  Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814) was born on May - 07.  

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

0973  On May - 07 otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60  

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

1166  Death of Willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66) on May - 07.  

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

1427  Death of Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman on this day in history.  

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)