May 7

Holidays

• Saint Flavia Domitilla
• USA - National Masturbation Day (Declared by Good_Vibrations_(sex_toy_business)) Now in its 11th year - [1][2][3][4][5]
• Blessed Gisela (died 1060)
• Saint Domitian of Huy, apostle of the Meuse valley
• Bulgaria - Radio and Television Day (see above)
• Russia - Radio Day (commemorating the work of Alexander Popov)
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Events

• 2019 Second Libyan Civil War 2019, 2019 Western Libya offensive: A pro-GNA Mirage F1 fighter plane was shot down by the Libyan National Army over Tripoli. The pilot, who claimed to be Portuguese but his identity could not be confirmed by the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was captured and taken into custody. The LNA's media outlet released photos showing the injured pilot flanked and assisted by LNA officials.
• 2018 Yemeni Civil War (2015)-present: Saudi-led Coalition airstrikes destroy Sana'a Presidential Palace, Yemen. At least six people were killed and 30 injured. Officials from the coalition claim that they targeted high-ranking Houthi officials.
• 2017 After a collision between a truck and bus in Vietnam's Gia Lai Province, at least 11 people have been killed.
• 2016 War in Afghanistan (2001-present: Resolute Support mission: Two Romanian soldiers were killed in an insider attack on Afghanistan.
• 2015 Boko Haram: A Boko Haram attack in the southwest Niger village leaves at least five dead.
• 2014 Islamist insurgency: At least 125 people killed in massacre in Gamboru Ngala (Borno State).
• 2013 Syrian civil war: Four Filipino UN peacekeepers have been kidnapped while they were patrolling the demilitarized zone between Syria and the Israeli-annexed Golan Height. (Al Jazeera),
• 2012 A NATO air strike in Badghis Province results in at least 14 civilians being killed and 6 more civilians being injured.
• 2011 2011 Syrian uprising
• 2010 Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred.ref name=quotPinkowskiquot
• 2009 A 40-hour siege in Napier by a single gunman begins with over 100 New Zealand Police officers.
• 2008 Dmitry Medvedev is elected Russia's president.
• 2007 Israeli archaeologists find the tomb of Herod The Great south of Jerusalem.
• 2006 Disgruntled bus driver sets out on a rampage through Dublin, Ireland. He smashes through oncoming and stopped vehicles, drives across tram lines, and takes the wrong side of a dual carriageway. One woman is killed, and 13 others are injured, including five Gardai. Three times, armed Gardai opened fire to stop the bus.
• 2005 David Trimble, 1998 Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, has resigned from his leadership position. He had lost his seat in the British general elections the day before.
• 2004 American businessman Nick Berg is executed by Islamic militants. The videotape recording of the act is made and then released online.
• 2003 U.S. Customs agents in Iraq have recovered nearly 40,000 manuscripts as well 700 artifacts from the National Museum of Iraq. Some looters returned items with promises of reward and amnesty. Many items reported as missing were actually hidden in secret storage vaults at this museum before the war broke out.
• 2002 One hundred and two people were killed when a China Northern Airlines MD-82 crashed into the Yellow Sea.
• 2000 Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia
• 1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• 1997 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
• 1996 Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
• 1995 On the Waterfront closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 performances
• 1994 Edvard Munchs painting The Scream recovered 3 months after stolen
• 1993 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections.
• 1992 Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
• 1989 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic.
• 1988 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2.
• 1986 In Andreanof Islands, Alaska, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurs. Tsunami generated with observed wave heights up to 175 cm.
• 1984 Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic.
• 1983 August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups.
• 1982 Is There Life after High School? opens at Barrymore NYC for 12 performances
• 1980 Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried
• 1979 Gary Roenicke hits into Baltimore Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland Athletics).
• 1977 Happy End opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 75 performances
• 1975 Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT) - Semifinals - Flyers hold 3-1 lead
• 1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin).
• 1972 Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic.
• 1969 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, US Marine Corp, becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
• 1967 Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open.
• 1966 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02.
• 1965 WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1964 Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
• 1963 Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ
• 1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
• 1961 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open.
• 1960 Christine closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 12 performances
• 1958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
• 1957 Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles
• 1956 New York Giants' Bill White homers in his first at bat.
• 1955 West Europe Union established.
• 1954 US, Great Britain, and France reject Russian membership in NATO.
• 1953 Can Can opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances
• 1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter
• 1949 75th Kentucky Derby: Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 2:04.2.
• 1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death.
• 1947 Paraguayian Government unleashes contra revolt.
• 1946 William H Hastie inaugurated as (first black) governor of Virgin Islands.
• 1945 British troops pull into Utrecht Neth
• 1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
• 1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
• 1941 Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
• 1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
• 1939 Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
• 1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany undesired strangers
• 1937 Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
• 1936 Italy annexes Ethiopia.
• 1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley
• 1932 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2
• 1930 Duleepsinhji scores 333 in cricket for Sussex versus Northants in 330 minutes.
• 1929 quotThe Battle Of Blood Alleyquot is fought in Sydney, Australia
• 1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for
• 1927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
• 1924 Peruvian Torre forms 004A, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana.
• 1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad.
• 1922 New York Giants Jesse Barnes no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 2-0.
• 1921 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2.
• 1920 Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Jozef Pi?sudski and Edward Rydz-Smig?y and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
• 1915 World War I: German submarine SM U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• 1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer.
• 1910 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6.
• 1909 Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv).
• 1907 Charles Collier wins first Isle of Man TT Race (38.22 mph).
• 1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered.
• 1902 Soufriere volcano on Saint Vincent kills 2-5,000.
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Famous Birthday

Who was born on May 7?

• Traci Lords

  American noted porno actress who took her name from her idol, Jack Lord in TV's "Hawaii Five-O.

• Gary Cooper

  American actor who became a major star after his 1941 appearance in "Sergeant York.

• Véronique Jannot

  French singer and actress discovered by Alain Delon with whom she played in "The Medic" directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, in 1979.

• Anne Baxter

  American author, actress and noted family, the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright.

• Breckin Meyer

  American actor.

• David Tomlinson

  Scotland, United Kingdom -- Actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter).

• Amy Heckerling

  American director producer and screenwriter.

• Alexander Ludwig

  Canadian actor.

• Darren McGavin

  American actor and director (d. 2006).

• Jimmy Ruffin

  soloist ("What Becomes of the Broken Hearted").

• Roger Perry
• Robin Strasser

  American actress.

• Gale Robbins

  Chicago, Illinois -- Actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex).

• Teresa Brewer

  American pop and jazz singer (Born 1931).

• Amyra Dastur
• Nicholas Hytner

  English director and producer.

• Aidy Bryant
• Pierre Boulanger

  St Mihiel Military man.

• Jaime Winstone

  Actress.

• Emily Alyn Lind

  Actress.

• Richard O'Sullivan

  English actor and singer.

• Frank Trigg

  American mixed martial artist and wrestler.

• Rudolph Valentino

  Actor.

• Peter Wingfield

  Wales, United Kingdom -- Rocker / actor (Methos-Highlander).

• April Wilkner
• Eva Peron

  Argentine First Lady (Born 1919).

• Susan Atkins

  American homicide perpetrator.

• Sophie Thalmann
• Marie-George Buffet

  French politician who was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 2001 to 2010.

• Vincent Clerc
• Fili Houtteman

  Belgian exotic dancer, a stripper who had won the beauty title of Miss Belgium in 1996.

• French presidential election 1995
• Philippe Geluck

  Belgian comedian, humorist and cartoonist.

• Zoé Félix

  French actress discovered by an agent, Myriam Bru, in a bus at the age of 17.

• Sylvain Augier

  French journalist, 1977-80, working for France-Inter from 1980, and television host noted in France.

• Michael E Knight

  American actor.

• Franck Michael
• Jérémy Menez
• Eagle-Eye Cherry

  Swedish singer-songwriter.

• Ivan Sergei

  American actor.

• Gaston Rébuffat

  French alpinist and mountain guide.

• Marko Milic

  NBA guard (Phoenix Suns).

• Céleste Lett
• Lars Sjösten
• Emilie Deleuze
• Robert Hegyes
• Hamburg (Germany)
• Jean-Sébastien Fecteau
• Thelma Houston

  American singer-songwriter and actress (Sisters of Glory).

• Edwin H Land

  American scientist and inventor (Polaroid Corporation) (Born 1909).

• André du Bouchet
• François Scellier
• Googoosh
• Jean Gandois

  French engineer of roads and bridges in Guinea, Brazil and Peru.

• Arlenis Sosa
• Kamal Ahmed
• Jean-Paul Alduy
• Tony Auth

  American cartoonist, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his editorial cartoons.

• Marjorie Boulton

  British writer, critic and lyric poet, the latter in Esperanto.

• Jean Cornec

  Logonna-Daoulas EXecutives.

• Johnny Unitas

  Football Player.

• Félicité Wouassi
• Daniela Ferolla

  Italian beauty queen, voted Miss Italy 2001.

• Dominique Aubier

  French author.

• Betsy Rodden
• Harvey Andrews

  English singer-songwriter and poet.

• Emmanuel Krivine

  French musician and conductor, a violinist by training.

• Elisabeth Söderström
• Ruud Lubbers

  Dutch economist, entrepreneur, politician and premier minister.

• Jacques Duby

  French stage, film and television actor.

• David Marshall

  Scottish politician and Member of Parliament, returned by General Election 6/11/1987.

• Jan Peter Balkenende

  Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

• Luiz Pacheco

  Portuguese writer, a neo-abjectionist, advocate and publisher of the early writings of the Portuguese surrealists.

• Dominique Lefebvre

  French politician, the Socialist deputy of the tenth district of Val-d'Oise, Member of the Finance Committee since June 2012, vice president...

• Paolo Savoldelli

  Italian cyclist.

• Heinz Marti

  Composer.

• Johnny Maestro

  American singer (Born 1939).

• Gila Goldstein
• Katerina Maleeva

  in Bulgaria; tennis player (US Open Junior 1984).

• Calum MacDonald

  Scottish politician and Member of Parliament, the Labour representative of the Western Isles, returned at General Election 6/11/1987.

• Axel Zwingenberger

  German pianist and songwriter.

• Cornelius Cardew

  Composer, dies at 45.

• Reuben Davis (American football)
• Robert Chapuis
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  German screenwriter.

• Owen Hart

  Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1965).

• Marvin Mitchelson

  American attorney, famous for palimony cases, self-promotion and personal flamboyance, once the world’s highest-paid lawyer.

• Hamilton (Bermuda)
• Richard Pinhas
• Hedley Mattingly
• Jean-Philippe Lauer

  French architect and Egyptologist.

• Thomas Piketty

  French economist who works on wealth and income inequality.

• Rianne ten Haken
• Marcel Poot

  Belgian composer, music theorist and Conservatory Director in Brussels 1949-66.

• Prairie Prince

  rocker (Tubes).

• Simon Ramo

  Salt Lake City EXecutives.

• Robert Cole

  American astrologer and author.

• Ruggero Deodato

  Italian film director, actor and screen writer.

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Famous Deaths

• Guy Williams

  Actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65.

• Dawn Addams

  British actress on-screen from 1951 in international films with three years in Hollywood.

• Colin Blakely

  Bangor, North Ireland -- Actor (Shattered, Equus, King Lear).

• Machiko Soga

  Japanese voice actress and actress (d. 2006).

• Mary Philbin

  Actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89.

• Warner Baxter

  American actor from 1918 who had a long and successful career.

• Douglas Fairbanks

  American actor and noted family, the son of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

• Seve Ballesteros

  Spanish golfer, arguably one of the best Europeans to ever play the game.

• Alfred Adam

  French actor, on stage and in films, known as a character actor who often plays in treacherous roles.

• Tristan Egolf

  American writer (Born 1971).

• Kevyn Aucoin

  American makeup artist and photographer (Born 1962).

• Richard Storrs Willis composer

  dies at age 81.

• Peter Hille writer

  dies.

• John Scalise

  US gangster, is murdered by Al Capone.

• Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta

  US gangster, murdered by Al Capone.

• Albert Anselmi

  US gangster, is murdered by Al Capone.

• David Wijnkoop

  revolutionary socialist, dies.

• Felix Paul von Weingartner

  Austria conductor/composer, dies at age 79.

• Lurleen Burns

  wife of George Wallace/Governor of Alabama, dies at age 41.

• Willem Banning

  Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at age 83.

• Ernest H Martin

  impressario, dies at age 75.

• Maria Luisa Bemberg

  film maker, dies at age 73.

• Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan

  Composer, dies at 56.

• George Webley

  British broadcaster, composer, bandleader and musician (Born 1957).

• George Lansbury

  British Labour Party leader (Born 1859).

• Peter W Rodino

  American politician (Born 1909).

• Yahweh ben Yahweh

  American cult leader (Born 1935).

• Allyson Hennessy

  Trindadian television presenter.

• David Mellor

  English journalist lawyer and politician Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

• Jeffrey Mylett

  American actor (Born 1949).

• Max Wagenknecht

  German organist composer and educator (d. 1922).

• Diego Corrales

  American boxer (Born 1977).

• Charles Frohman

  Dies aboard Lusitania.

• Jimmy Conlin

  American actor and singer (d. 1962).

• Lawrence Josset

  engraver, dies at age 84.

• Mieczyslaw Kolinski

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Harris Glenn Divine

  Dies of natural causes at 42.

• Jessica James

  Actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60.

• Joan C Edwards

  American philanthropist (Born 1918).

• Richard Carleton

  Australian news reporter (Born 1943).

• Carlos Estrada

  Composer, dies at 60.

• Irwin Fischer

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Peter Edel

  Writer.

• Clement Greenberg

  American art critic (Art and Culture), dies at age 85 (born 1909).

• William Hesketh Lever

  First Viscount Leverhulme (Born 1851).

• Sir James George Frazer

  Scottish anthropologist (Born 1854).

• Waldemar Milewicz

  Polish reporter (Born 1956).

• Edward Mollenhauer composer

  dies at age 87.

• Alfred G Vanderbilt

  US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania.

• Gaston Deferre

  French politician, dies at age 75.

• Margaret Skeete

  oldest American, dies at age 115.

• Albert Meltzer

  anarchist, dies at age 76.

• Henry Diamond

  Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament, dies at age 87.

• Howard Frank Trayton Smith

  diplomat/head of MI5, dies at age 76.

• Felix Weingartner

  Austrian-Hungarian conductor and composer who conducted the Royal Symphony in Berlin from 1891-1907, also performed in posts in Munich,...

• Ray McKinley

  American singer drummer and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (d. 1995).

• Octavian Paler

  Romanian journalist and politician (d. 2007).

• Nyogen Senzaki

  first Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at age 81.

• Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr

  US Lusitania officer.

• Edward Naylor

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Anton A Mussert

  Engineer / NSB leader, executed.

• Judith Evelyn

  Dies of cancer at 54.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 Kendrick Lamar - Humble.
• 2016 Desiigner - Panda
• 2015 Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 P!nk - Just Give Me A Reason
• 2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Katy Perry - E.T.
• 2010 B.o.B. - Nothin' On You
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• 2008 Lil Wayne - Lollipop
• 2007 Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
• 2006 Daniel Powter - Bad Day
• 2005 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Ashanti - Foolish
• 2001 Janet - All For You
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
• 1998 Next - Too Close
• 1997 The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
• 1996 Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby
• 1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
• 1994 Ace Of Base - The Sign
• 1993 Silk - Freak Me
• 1992 Kris Kross - Jump
• 1991 Amy Grant - Baby Baby
• 1990 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
• 1989 Madonna - Like A Prayer
• 1988 Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well
• 1987 Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms
• 1986 Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
• 1985 USA for Africa - We Are The World
• 1984 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Beat It
• 1982 Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire - Titles
• 1981 Sheena Easton - Morning Train (Nine To Five)
• 1980 Blondie - Call Me
• 1979 Peaches & Herb - Reunited
• 1978 Bee Gees - Night Fever
• 1977 Eagles - Hotel California
• 1976 Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow
• 1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
• 1974 Grand Funk - The Loco-Motion
• 1973 Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
• 1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
• 1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
• 1970 The Jackson 5 - ABC
• 1969 The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
• 1968 Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
• 1967 Nancy Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
• 1966 The Mamas & The Papas - Monday, Monday
• 1965 Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
• 1964 The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
• 1963 Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
• 1962 The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
• 1961 Del Shannon - Runaway
• 1960 Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
• 1959 The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
• 1958 David Seville - Witch Doctor
• 1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Gotye Featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Stone Temple Pilots - Between The Lines