Page 8: 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 May - 07.   

1960  Leonid Brezhnev becomes the President of the USSR on May - 07.   

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

1962  On May - 07 jimmy Conlin, dies at 77   

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

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

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

1967  Judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1970  On May - 07 "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release   

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

1971  Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83 on May - 07.   

1973  Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) on May - 07.   

1973  On this day in history uS President Nixon denies all knowledge of the Watergate affair   

1974  Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) on this day in history.   

1975  On this day in history president Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"   

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

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

1980  On this day in history josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried   

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

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

1982  On May - 07 iBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1   

1982  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

1982  On May - 07 alfred Adam, dies at 72   

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

1983  Peter Edel, writer, dies on this day in history.   

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

1984  In Southern Italy a 5.8 earthquake killed three people and at least 100 injured, and extensive damage in the Abruzzo area on May - 07.   

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1328  Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365) was born on May - 07.   

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

1700  On May - 07 birth of gerard van Swieten, Dutch botanist   

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  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  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 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  On May - 07 death of thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman   

1523  On this day in history 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.