7th May anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1711
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of David Hume, Scottish philosopher and key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment." more
  • 1812
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Robert Browning, English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning." more
  • 1833
  • Germany
  • "Birth of Johannes Brahms, German composer ."
  • 1840
  • Russian Federation
  • "Birth Tchaikovsky, Russian composer of Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture and other much loved classics." more
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Birth of Edwin Land, American inventor of the Polaroid camera"
  • 1919
  • Argentina
  • "Birth of Eva Perón, actress who became First Lady of Argentina." more
• event
  • 1915
  • "RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland – 1,198 died "
  • 1940
  • Great Britain
  • Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister
  • 1945
  • Nazi Germany surrenders - VE Day
  • 1948
  • The Council of Europe was founded during the Hague Congress .
  • 1984
  • United States
  • US Vietnam veterans who had become ill after being exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange were awarded a $180 million settlement
  • 1998
  • Great Britain
  • "In a referendum, the people of London voted to elect their own mayor for the first time."
  • 1999
  • United States
  • American talk show The Jenny Jones Show was ordered to pay $25 million to the family of a man shot to death after revealing a crush on a male guest
• Death
  • 1986
  • Great Britain
  • "Mannie Shinwell, veteran politician, dies aged 101 "
  • 1998
  • United States
  • "Death of Eddie Rabbitt, American musician ."