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 this day in history.   

1960  On May - 07 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 this day in history 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  Jimmy Conlin, dies at 77 on May - 07.   

1963  On this day in history bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champion   

1963  SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km)) on May - 07.   

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

1967  On May - 07 judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54   

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

1970  On this day in history carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60   

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

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

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

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

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

1980  On May - 07 josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried   

1980  On May - 07 samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC   

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

1982  IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1 on May - 07.   

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  On May - 07 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 this day in history birth of louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots   

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

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  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  Death of Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown) on this day in history.   

1166  On this day in history death of willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)   

1205  On this day in history ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6   

1427  On this day in history death of thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman   

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.