The May 7th is the 127e Jour of the Année (128e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

  •    558: The dome of the basilica Holy-Sophie of Constantinople collapses. Justinien Ier immediately orders to rebuild it.

  • 1274 : In France, the Concile of Lyon II opens.
  • 1429 : Jeanne d' Arc takes again Orleans with the English. This victory marks a turning in the Guerre One hundred Year old.
  • 1463 : Large fire of Toulouse, in the medieval city, which destroyed the three quarters of the city and ruined several churches, Couvent S and other public edifices, propagated by a strong wind through the narrow streets, bordered of dwellings to wood sides and extended its devastations to the town hall.
  • 1697 - the royal castle of Stockholm is destroyed by a fire (at the XVIIIe century, the current Royal palace will be rebuilt at the same place).
  • 1789 : Seizure of the newspaper of Mirabeau (the Mail of Provence ). Prohibition to publish reports of the meetings of the General states. Mirabeau did not hold account of it and continued to publish the report of the meetings of the Parliament as well as the analyzes on the political questions with the day order, initially under the title Lettres of the count Mirabeau to his principals of the May 10th to the July 25th 1789, then under the title Courrier of Provence , which appeared until the September 30th 1791.
  • 1794 : Robespierre makes adopt by the Convention a new religion, the Culte of the supreme Reason and Être.
  • 1824 : The 9 {{E}} symphony in minor D of Ludwig van Beethoven is interpreted for the first time at the Kärtnertor theater of Vienna.
  • 1832 - the Greece is recognized independent by the treated of London. Othon I {{er}} of Greece, Prince de Bavière is selected king de Grèce.

20th century

  • 1915 : An Underwater German torpedo the British steamer of 32.000 tons Lusitania, off Ireland.

  • 1919 : Monks cistercians originating in Spain arrive at the Abbaye Saint-Michel of Cuxa, in the the Eastern Pyrenees, to make revive the Abbey given up since the Révolution.
  • 1945 : The German general Alfred Jodl sign with Rheims terms of an unconditional rendering which finishes the German participation in the Second world war. The document takes effect the following day.
  • 1948 : Congress of $the Hague or “congress of Europe”, which will lead to the creation of the the Council of Europe in May 1949.
  • 1954 : Fall of Diên Biên Phu. The France loses the Indo-China.
  • 1967 : The NewYork Times reports that young Soviet openly defied the police authorities and danced the Twist on the Red Place during the celebrations of May 1st.
  • 1968 : Reginald Dwight decides to change its name into that of Elton John.
  • 1975 : Launching of Anik III, the 3rd satellite Canadian of communications.
  • 1981 : funeral of the Irish militant Bobby Sands.
  • 1990 :
  • 1992 :
    • Signature with Bamako (Mali) of the “Social pact for the improvement of the living conditions of the workers” between the State Malian and the National union of the workers of the Mali (UNTM).
    • a leather jacket having belonged to John Lennon is allocated for 43.100 USD at the time of an auction to London.
  • 1995 : Jacques Chirac is elected president of the French Republic.
  • 1998 :
    • Officialisation of fusion enters the companies states-unienne Chrysler and allemande Daimler-Benz.
    • Funeral of the guitarist and singer Hideto Matsumoto, known as Hide. Many suicides followed its funeral.
  • 1999 : The France recognizes officially the languages régionales.

21e century

  • 2002 :

    • the 1st world Day of the orphans of the AIDS, initiated by AFXB, is inaugurated by the president of the municipal council of New York, Gifford Miller which declared on May 7th, 2002 “Day of the Orphans of the AIDS” in New York.
    • a Avion of line Chinese of the type MD-82 of the company China Northern Airlines is damaged at sea with broad Dalian (450 km in the east of Beijing), making 112 victims.
    • a Boeing 737 -500 of the company EgyptAir is crushed close to the International airport of Tunis-Carthage after an attempt at crash landing, making 14 died out of the 64 passengers and members of the crew.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Labor Day in England. (Festival identical to that of May 1st in France)

First names

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • the Nile of Sora († 1508), higoumene in Russia.

See too

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