Page 8: Historical Events In May - 07

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

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

1960  Leonid Brezhnev becomes the President of the USSR on this day in history.   

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

1960  On this day in history michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship   

1960  On this day in history uSSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy   

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

1962  On May - 07 uS performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island   

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

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

1967  On May - 07 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 this day in history.   

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

1973  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)   

1973  US President Nixon denies all knowledge of the Watergate affair on May - 07.   

1974  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)   

1975  On May - 07 president Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"   

1975  Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays on this day in history.   

1977  Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73 on May - 07.   

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

1980  Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1981  Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79 on May - 07.   

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  On May - 07 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  On May - 07 $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit   

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  Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365) was born on this day in history.   

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

1574  On this day in history birth of innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)   

1643  Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700) was born on May - 07.   

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

1704  Carl Heinrich Graun, composer was born on May - 07.   

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 May - 07.   

0685  Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies on this day in history.   

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

1092  On this day in history death of remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown)   

1166  On May - 07 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 this day in history.   

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

1539  Death of Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469) on May - 07.