Editing May 7 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[351]] &ndash; The [[Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus]] breaks out after his arrival at [[Antioch]].<ref>Socrates Scholasticus, ''Historia ecclesiastica'' ii.28.2</ref>
* [[558]] &ndash; In [[Constantinople]], the [[dome]] of the [[Hagia Sophia]] collapses, twenty years after its construction.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nadine Schibille|title=Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n-oGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|date=22 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-12415-3|pages=50}}</ref> [[Justinian I]] immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
*[[1274]] &ndash; In France, the [[Second Council of Lyon]] opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the [[Pope]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Generals of the Order of Friars Minor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wshYVi3KM4C&pg=RA3-PA77|publisher=Ordo Fratrum Minorum|pages=3}}</ref>
*[[1342]] &ndash; In [[Avignon]], France, Cardinal Pierre Roger is [[1342 papal conclave|elected]] [[Pope]] and takes the name [[Pope Clement VI|Clement VI]].<ref>{{cite web |author-link=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=Conclave of May 5 - 7, 1342 (Clement VI) |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/conclave-xiv.htm#1342 |work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |publisher=[[Florida International University]] |oclc=53276621 }}</ref>
*[[1487]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Málaga (1487)|Siege of Málaga]] commences during the Spanish [[Reconquista]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Harry W. Hazard|author2=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6v9jhUd-r8C&pg=PA452|year=1975|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-06670-3|pages=452}}</ref>
*[[1544]] &ndash; The [[Burning of Edinburgh]] by an English army is the first action of the [[Rough Wooing]].<ref>Joseph Bain, ''Hamilton Papers'', vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 369.</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1625]] &ndash; [[Death and funeral of James VI and I|State funeral]] of [[James VI and I]] (1566–1625) is held at [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>Jennifer Woodward, ''The Theatre of Death: The Ritual Management of Royal Funerals in Renaissance England ''(Boydell, 1997), p. 175.</ref>
*[[1664]] &ndash; Inaugural celebrations begin at [[Louis XIV of France]]'s new [[Palace of Versailles]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Varick Dock|title=Costume & Fashion in the Plays of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière: A Seventeenth-century Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7tcAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Slatkine|isbn=978-2-05-101196-9|page=114}}</ref>
*[[1685]] &ndash; [[Battle of Vrtijeljka]] between rebels and Ottoman forces.
*[[1697]] &ndash; [[Stockholm]]'s royal castle (dating back to [[Middle Ages|medieval]] times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current [[Stockholm Palace|Royal Palace]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Mårten Snickare|title=Tessin: Nicodemus Tessin the Younger : Royal Architect and Visionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TBzqAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Nationalmuseum|isbn=978-91-7100-671-4|page=111}}</ref>
*[[1718]] &ndash; The city of [[New Orleans]] is founded by [[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Ambe J. Njoh|title=French Urbanism in Foreign Lands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r64vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|date=10 December 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-25298-8|pages=21}}</ref>
*[[1763]] &ndash; [[Pontiac's War]] begins with [[Pontiac (Ottawa leader)|Pontiac]]'s attempt to [[Siege of Fort Detroit|seize]] [[Fort Detroit]] from the British.
*[[1765]] &ndash; [[HMS Victory]] is launched at [[Chatham Dockyard]], Kent. She is not commissioned until 1778.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Royal Navy- HMS Victory |url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/features/trafalgar-day/hms-victory#:~:text=HMS%20Victory%20HMS%20Victory%2C%20the,Trafalgar%20on%2021%20October%201805.}}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespierre]] introduces the [[Cult of the Supreme Being]] in the [[National Convention]] as the new [[state religion]] of the [[French First Republic]].
*[[1798]] &ndash; [[French Revolutionary Wars]]: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the [[Îles Saint-Marcouf]] is  [[Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf|repulsed with heavy losses]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Woodman | first = Richard | author-link = Richard Woodman | year = 2001 | title = The Sea Warriors | publisher = Constable Publishers | pages =103–04 |isbn = 1-84119-183-3}}</ref>
*[[1824]] &ndash; World premiere of [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] in [[Vienna]], Austria. The performance is conducted by [[Michael Umlauf]] under the composer's supervision.<ref>{{cite book | first=Peter | last=Clive | title=Beethoven and his World: a Biographical Dictionary | place=New York | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-19816-672-6 | page=375}}</ref>
*[[1832]] &ndash; Greece's independence is recognized by the [[Treaty of London, 1832|Treaty of London]]. 
*[[1840]] &ndash; The [[Great Natchez Tornado]] strikes [[Natchez, Mississippi]] killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest [[tornado]] in United States history.
*[[1846]] &ndash; The ''[[Cambridge Chronicle]]'', America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Army of the Potomac]], under General [[Ulysses S. Grant]], breaks off from the [[Battle of the Wilderness]] and moves southwards.
*  1864   &ndash; The world's oldest surviving [[clipper]] ship, the ''[[City of Adelaide (1864)|City of Adelaide]]'' is launched by [[William Pile (shipbuilder)|William Pile, Hay and Co.]] in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
*[[1895]] &ndash; In [[Saint Petersburg]], Russian scientist [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov [[lightning]] detector—a primitive [[radio receiver]]. In some parts of the former [[Soviet Union]] the anniversary of this day is celebrated as [[Radio Day]].

===1901–present===
*[[1915]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: German [[submarine]] {{SMU|U-20|Germany|2}} [[Sinking of the RMS Lusitania|sinks]] [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']], killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the [[German Empire]].
*  1915   &ndash; The [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] accedes to 13 of the [[Twenty-One Demands#Japanese ultimatum|21 Demands]], extending the [[Empire of Japan]]{{'s}} control over [[Manchuria]] and the Chinese economy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Elleman|first=Bruce A.|title=Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question|location=Armonk, N.Y.|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|date=2002|isbn=9780765610508|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=udvEJWHC_eUC|page=18}}</ref>
*[[1920]] &ndash; [[Polish–Soviet War]]: [[Kiev offensive (1920)|Kyiv offensive]]: [[Second Polish Republic|Polish]] troops led by [[Józef Piłsudski]] and [[Edward Rydz-Śmigły]] and assisted by a symbolic [[Ukrainian People's Republic|Ukrainian]] force capture [[Kyiv]] only to be driven out by the [[Red Army]] counter-offensive a month later.
*  1920   &ndash; [[Treaty of Moscow (1920)|Treaty of Moscow]]: [[Russian SFSR|Soviet Russia]] recognizes the independence of the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] only to invade the country six months later.
*[[1930]] &ndash; The 7.1 {{M|w}} [[1930 Salmas earthquake|Salmas earthquake]] shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of IX (''Violent''). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
*[[1931]] &ndash; The stand-off between criminal [[Francis Crowley]] and 300 members of the [[New York Police Department]] takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, [[New York City]].
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[Spanish Civil War]]: The German [[Condor Legion]], equipped with [[Heinkel He 51]] biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist [[Francisco Franco]]'s forces.
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Norway Debate]] in the [[British House of Commons]] begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] with [[Winston Churchill]] three days later.
*[[1942]] &ndash; World War II: During the [[Battle of the Coral Sea]], United States Navy [[aircraft carrier]] aircraft attack and sink the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] [[light aircraft carrier]] [[Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō|Shōhō]]; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: Last German [[U-boat]] attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the [[Firth of Forth]], Scotland.
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: ''[[Generalfeldmarschall]]'' [[Wilhelm Keitel]] signs [[German Instrument of Surrender|unconditional surrender terms]] at [[Reims]], France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
*[[1946]] &ndash; Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed [[Sony]]) is founded.<ref>{{cite book|last=Grayson|first=Robert|title=Sony: The Company and Its Founders|location=Minneapolis|publisher=ABDO Publishing|date=2013|isbn=9781617833359|url=https://archive.org/details/sonycompanyitsfo0000gray|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sonycompanyitsfo0000gray/page/27 27]–28}}</ref>
*[[1948]] &ndash; The [[Council of Europe]] is founded during the [[Hague Congress (1948)|Hague Congress]].
*[[1952]] &ndash; The concept of the [[integrated circuit]], the basis for all modern computers, is first published by [[Geoffrey Dummer]].
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[Indochina War]]: The [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]] ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: [[U-2 Crisis of 1960]]: Soviet leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]] announces that his nation is holding American [[Lockheed U-2|U-2]] pilot [[Gary Powers]].
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Pacific Air Lines Flight 773|Pacific Airlines Flight 773]] is hijacked by [[Francisco Gonzales]] and crashes in [[Contra Costa County, California]], killing 44.<ref name="CAB1964">{{cite web |date=October 28, 1964 |title=Accident Report, Pacific Air Lines incident of May 7, 1964, File No: 1-0017 |url=http://dotlibrary.specialcollection.net/Document?db=DOT-AIRPLANEACCIDENTS&query=(select+773) |access-date=March 20, 2021 |publisher=[[Civil Aeronautics Board]]}}</ref>
*[[1986]] &ndash; Canadian [[Patrick Morrow]] becomes the first person to climb each of the [[Seven Summits]].
*[[1991]] &ndash; A [[Bright Sparklers Fireworks disaster|fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory]] at [[Sungai Buloh]], Malaysia, killing 26.<ref>{{Cite news |title=NST175: The bright sparklers tragedy |work=[[New Straits Times]] |url=https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/08/613814/nst175-bright-sparklers-tragedy |access-date=May 9, 2022}}</ref>
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Michigan]] ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the [[United States Constitution]] making the [[Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution|27th Amendment]] law. This amendment bars the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
*  1992   &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program]]: The [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Endeavour]]'' is launched on its first mission, [[STS-49]].
*  1992   &ndash; Three employees at a [[McDonald's]] Restaurant in [[Sydney, Nova Scotia]], Canada, are [[Sydney River McDonald's murders|brutally murdered]] and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Edvard Munch]]'s painting ''[[The Scream]]'' is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the [[National Gallery of Norway]] in February.<ref>{{cite news|title='The Scream' recovered in Norway|work=UPI|date=May 7, 1994|access-date=May 7, 2019|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/05/07/The-Scream-recovered-in-Norway/1525768283200/}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[Mercedes-Benz]] buys [[Chrysler]] for US$40&nbsp;billion and forms [[DaimlerChrysler]] in the largest industrial merger in history.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lipin|first=Steven|title=Chrysler, Daimler-Benz Announce World's Largest Industrial Merger|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 7, 1998|access-date=May 7, 2019|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB894421909383679000}}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Pope John Paul II]] travels to [[Romania]], becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] country since the [[East–West Schism|Great Schism]] in 1054.
*  1999   &ndash; [[Kosovo War]]: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a [[NATO]] aircraft inadvertently [[United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade|bombs the Chinese embassy]] in [[Belgrade|Belgrade, Serbia]]. 
*  1999   &ndash; In [[Guinea-Bissau]], President [[João Bernardo Vieira]] is ousted in a [[military coup]].
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Vladimir Putin]] is inaugurated as president of Russia.
*[[2002]] &ndash; An [[EgyptAir Flight 843|EgyptAir Boeing 737-500]] crashes on approach to [[Tunis–Carthage International Airport]], killing 14 people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20020507-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-566 SU-GBI Tunis-Carthage Airport (TUN)|last=Ranter|first=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=2020-03-20}}</ref>
*  2002   &ndash; A [[China Northern Airlines Flight 6136|China Northern Airlines MD-82]] plunges into the [[Yellow Sea]], killing 112 people.
*[[2004]] &ndash; American businessman [[Nick Berg]] is [[decapitation|beheaded]] by Islamist militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.<ref>{{cite book|last=Zuhur|first=Sherifa|chapter=Al Qaeda in Iraq|title=U.S. Conflicts in the 21st Century: Afghanistan War, Iraq War, and the War on Terror. Volume 2: I to S|editor-last1=Tucker|editor-first1=Spencer|editor-last2=Pierpaoli|editor-first2=Paul G.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2016|isbn=9781440838781|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d8EnCwAAQBAJ|page=66}}</ref>