Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 7

This is a list of selected May 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Ludwig van Beethoven
• Alexander Stepanovich Popov (requires undeletion)
  Alexander Stepanovich Popov (requires undeletion)
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  Alexander Stepanovich Popov
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  1864 lithograph of the City of Adelaide
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  Maximilien Robespierre
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  Chief Pontiac
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  Neanderthal skull uncovered at Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar
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  Northern facade of Stockholm Palace
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  Sony headquarters, Tokyo
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  Winston Churchill

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Radio Day in Bulgaria and Russia	no footnotes
1274 – The first session of the Second Council of Lyon was held to discuss, among other issues, the pledge by Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos to end the Great Schism and reunite the Eastern church with the West.	refimprove section
1718 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and the Mississippi Company founded New Orleans, naming the French colonial settlement after Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.	unreferenced section
1824 – Ludwig van Beethoven's last complete symphony, the Symphony No. 9 in D minor, which incorporates part of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" in its fourth movement, premiered at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna.	unreferenced sections
1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide was launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.	lots of {{cn}} tags (9)
1864 – The oldest surviving weekly newspaper in the United States, the Cambridge Chronicle, was first published.	unreferenced section
1875 – Japan and Russia signed the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, where Japan ceded its portion of Sakhalin Island in exchange for the Kuril Islands, but differences in translations led to the ongoing Kuril Islands dispute between them.	Uncited content and OR
1915 – First World War: The German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank the ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 on board.	refimprove section
1920 – Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by signing the Treaty of Moscow, only to invade the country six months later.	unreferenced section
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: During the Kiev Offensive, Polish troops, with the help of a symbolic Ukrainian force, captured Kiev, only to be driven out by the Soviet Red Army counter-offensive a month later.	unreferenced section
1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, was first published by Geoffrey Dummer.	refimprove section, external links
2007 – A team of Israeli archaeologists discovered the tomb of Herod the Great, the 1st century BC ruler of Judea.	refimprove section
Christy Moore |b|1945	refimprove section
Daisy Pearce |b|1988	TFA for 2022-05-07
* 1685 – Great Turkish War: Ottoman forces defeated Venetian irregulars at the Battle on Vrtijeljka.	too much uncited and excessive quote

Eligible

• 1697 – The 13th-century castle of Tre Kronor in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace were presented within the year.
• 1763 – Pontiac, a Native American chief of the Odawa tribe, led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.
• 1895 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.
• 1931 – New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered.
• 1940 – A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).
• 1954 – A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
• 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
• 2009 – Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
• 2010 – A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
• Born/died: | Ibn Hisham |d|833| Ladislaus III of Hungary |d|1205| Bajo Pivljanin |d|1685| David Hume |b|1711| William Bainbridge |b|1774| Jabez Bowen |d|1815| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |b|1840| Tom Norman |b|1860| Philip Baxter |b|1905| Albert Ball |d|1917| Rendra Karno |b|1920| Deborah Butterfield |b|1949| Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome |b|1961

Notes

• Hagia Sophia is saved for December 27
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu is saved for March 13
• João Bernardo Vieira is saved for March 2

May 7

Maximilien Robespierre

• 1487 – Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
• 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
• 1798 – War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast, inflicting heavy losses.
• 1937 – Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.
• 1946 – Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.

• Mary of Modena (d. 1718)
• Tore Wretman (b. 1916)
• Willard Boyle (d. 2011)

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