History for May 7 - On-This-Day.com
Robert Browning 1812 - Poet, married to poet Elizabeth Barrett, Johannes Brahms 1833 - Composer and pianist, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 - Composer
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", Tim Russert 1950 - TV host ("Meet the Press")
1915 - The Lusitania, a civilian ship, was sunk by a German submarine. 1,201 people were killed.
1998 - Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40 billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record.
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