This Day in History for May 7th:
1429 -- English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc.
1660 -- Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni.
1700 -- William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation.
1763 -- Indian chief Pontiac began all out war on the British in New York.
1765 -- Admiral Nelson's sailboat HMS Victory runs aground.
1800 -- Indiana Territory organized.
1832 -- Greece becomes independent republic.
1840 -- Tornado strikes Natchez MS, kills 317.
1847 -- American Medical Association organizes (Philadelphia)
1864 -- Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500).
1873 -- US marines attack Panamá.
1888 -- George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera".
1902 -- Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000.
1912 -- The first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over College Park, MD.
1912 -- Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer.
1914 -- US Congress establishes mother's day.
1915 -- Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost.
1928 -- England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21.
1934 -- World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines.
1942 -- In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attacked each other with carrier planes. It was the first time in the history of naval warfare where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other.
1942 -- Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed.
1945 -- German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe.
1953 -- Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by L E Marron, in Chile.
1954 -- US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO.
1960 -- USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy.
1975 -- President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
1983 -- August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups.
1984 -- $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit.
1992 -- 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine.
1995 -- Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election.
1998 -- Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40 billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record.
1998 -- Residents of London voted to elect their own mayor for the first time in history. The vote would take place in May 2000.
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