It happened on this day, May 7
events:
1104 – The Seljuks defeat the Crusaders at the Battle of Harran.
1250 – King Louis IX of France is released from prison and released from prison to the house of Ibn Luqman in the city of Mansoura in Egypt.
1875 – Japan and Russia sign an agreement to exchange Sakhalin and the Teshima archipelago.
1907 – Forces of Saudi King Abdulaziz Al Saud put down a rebellion by Mutair tribe leader Faisal Al-Dawish. 1914 – The first ship to pass through the Panama Canal.
1920 – Creation of the Bank of Egypt.
(1945–Nazi Germany unconditionally surrenders to the Allied forces during World War II, thereby ending Nazism
1946 – Tokyo Communications Engineering Company is established. The company name was later changed to “Sony”. Its first industrial product was a rice cooker.
1952 – The emergence of theoretical applications for integrated circuits, which become the heart of any computer or electronic device.
1960 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union.
1992 – First launch of the American spacecraft “Endeavour”.
1998 – Apple announces the iMac.
✴️ Daimler-Benz, the German company that produces Mercedes-Benz cars, is buying American auto giant Chrysler for $40 billion, creating the world's largest automaker under the name DaimlerChrysler.
2002 – EgyptAir Flight 843 crashes after hitting a mountain while landing at Tunis-Carthage International Airport.
2004 – Russian President Vladimir Putin is sworn in for a second term.
2005 – Former Lebanese army commander and Prime Minister of the military government, General Michel Aoun, returns to Lebanon after years of exile.
2008 – Armed clashes in Beirut and parts of Lebanon between loyalist supporters and opponents, resembling a mini-civil war.
✴️ Dmitry Medvedev assumes the presidency of the Russian Federation, succeeding Vladimir Putin.
2010 – The Conservative Party led by David Cameron wins the greatest number of votes in the British parliamentary elections without obtaining the absolute majority which would allow it to automatically form the government.
2012 – Vladimir Putin is sworn in as President of the Russian Federation, succeeding Dmitry Medvedev in the position.
2016 – Saudi Arabia announces the restructuring of a number of state agencies, which resulted in the merger of several ministries and agencies and the creation of others.
2017 – Emmanuel Macron wins the French presidential elections with 66.1%, compared to 33.9% for his competitor Marine Le Pen.
2020 – Astronomers announce the discovery of the first near-Earth black hole in the star system, named HR 6819, visible to the naked eye.
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Births:
1833 – Johannes Brahms, German musician.
1840 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian musician.
1847 – Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1861 – Rabindranath Thakur, Indian writer and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
1867 – Władyslaw Raymont, Polish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924.
1884 – Daoud Abu Chakra, Lebanese policeman.
1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor.
1929 – Tawfiq Ziyad, Palestinian poet.
1939 – Sidney Altman, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989.
1950 – Saad al-Din Shaheen, Jordanian-Palestinian poet and writer.
1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
1974 – Ian Pearce, English footballer.
1980 – Hamad Harbi, Kuwaiti footballer.
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Death:
685 – Marwan ibn al-Hakam, fourth Umayyad caliph in Damascus and founder of the second Umayyad state.
973 – Emperor Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1682 – Tsar Feoder III, third tsar of Tsarist Russia.
1805 – William Beatty, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet.
1932 – Fakir Istihabanati, Iranian poet.
1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor.
1961 – Marhoon Al-Saffar, Iraqi poet.
2007 – Riyad Al-Hamshari, Egyptian composer.
2016 – Noura, Kuwaiti singer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ Radio Day in Russia..
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