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Events

• 1824 (202 years ago) World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
• 1895 (131 years ago) In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
• 1931 (95 years ago) The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
• 1999 (27 years ago) Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
• 1999 (27 years ago) In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
• 2000 (26 years ago) Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
• 2025 (a year ago) The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

Births

• 1711 (315 years ago) David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (died 1776)
• 1812 (214 years ago) Robert Browning, English poet and playwright (died 1889)
• 1833 (193 years ago) Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (died 1897)
• 1840 (186 years ago) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator (died 1893)
• 1861 (165 years ago) Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
• 1867 (159 years ago) Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1925)
• 1892 (134 years ago) Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (died 1980)
• 1919 (107 years ago) Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (died 1952)

Deaths

• 973 (1053 years ago) Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 912)
• 1682 (344 years ago) Feodor III of Russia,
• 1825 (201 years ago) Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (born 1750)
• 1840 (186 years ago) Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and educator (born 1774)
• 1941 (85 years ago) James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (born 1854)
• 1951 (75 years ago) Warner Baxter, American actor (born 1889)
• 1998 (28 years ago) Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
• 2011 (15 years ago) Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)

All 287 events, births and deaths of May 7