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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  1864 lithograph of the City of Adelaide
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  Maximilien Robespierre
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  Chief Pontiac
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  Hand-coloured Thomas Dutton lithograph of the City of Adelaide in 1864.
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  Neanderthal skull uncovered at Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar
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  Northern facade of the Royal Palace in Stockholm

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.	refimprove sections
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.	lead too short
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.	refimprove section
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
1864 – The oldest surviving weekly newspaper in the United States, the Cambridge Chronicle, was first published.	unreferenced section
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.	lots of {{cn}} tags
1940 – A debate in the British House of Commons began, and culminated in the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill several days later.	refimprove section
1946 – Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, which later changed its name to Sony.	unreferenced section
1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, was first published by Geoffrey Dummer.	unreferenced sections, refimprove section
2007 – A team of Israeli archaeologists discovered the tomb of 1st century BC ruler of Judea Herod the Great.	refimprove section
Mary of Modena (d. 1718)	refimprove section (Ancestry)

Eligible

• 351 – Jews in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina rebelled against the rule of Constantius Gallus, Caesar of the Eastern Roman Empire.
• 1685 – Great Turkish War: Ottoman forces prevailed over Venetian irregulars in the Battle on Vrtijeljka.
• 1763 – Pontiac of the Odawa Native American tribe led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.
• 1999 – During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States accidentally 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 shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
• Born/died: David Hume (b. 1711) · Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (b. 1840)

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

Alexander Stepanovich Popov

• 1697 – Stockholm's royal castle, dating back to the 13th century, was destroyed in a huge fire; the blueprint for the current royal palace was presented only a couple of weeks later.
• 1895 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov (pictured) presented his radio receiver, refined as a lightning detector, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.
• 1931 – New York City Police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley that was witnessed by 15,000 bystanders before he finally surrendered.
• 1960 – Cold War: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced that his country was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union six days earlier.
• 2010 – A team of researchers presented a complete draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome, demonstrating that today's modern humans have Neanderthal ancestors.

Bajo Pivljanin (d. 1685) · William Bainbridge (b. 1774) · Rendra Karno (b. 1920)

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