History for May 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Robert Browning 1812 - Poet, married to poet Elizabeth Barrett, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 - Composer, Gabby (George Francis) Hayes 1885 - Actor
Gary (Frank James) Cooper 1901 - Actor ("Sergeant York [1941]", "The Virginian"), Eva (Evita) Peron 1919 - Actress, wife of Argentina President Juan Peron, subject of the Broadway musical and film "Evita", Johnny Unitas 1933 - Football player
1763 - Indian chief Pontiac began all out war on the British in New York.
1915 - The Lusitania, a civilian ship, was sunk by a German submarine. 1,201 people were killed.
1940 - Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. was founded. The company was later renamed Sony.
1954 - French Colonial Forces surrendered to the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu after 55 days of fighting.
1977 - Rookie Janet Guthrie set the fastest time on opening day of practice for the Indianapolis 500. Her time was 185.607.
1998 - Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40 billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record.
2000 - Russian President Vladimir V. Putin named First Deputy Premier Mikhail Kasyanov as premier.
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