Page 8: Historical Events In May - 07

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

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

1960  On May - 07 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  On May - 07 uSSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy   

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

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

1962  On May - 07 jimmy Conlin, dies at 77   

1963  On May - 07 bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champion   

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

1966  Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1 on May - 07.   

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

1968  Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

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  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  Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried   

1980  On this day in history 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  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on May - 07.   

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

1983  On May - 07 august Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups   

1983  On May - 07 peter Edel, writer, dies   

1984  On May - 07 $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 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 May - 07.   

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

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

1704  On this day in history birth of carl Heinrich Graun, composer   

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

1740  On May - 07 birth of nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)   

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

0973  On this day in history 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 May - 07.   

1523  On this day in history franz von Sickingen, Germ knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42   

1539  On this day in history death of guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)