May 7th in History
May 7th in History
- 1911: Large demonstrations held in New York, demanding women's right to vote
- 1915: The liner 'Lusitania' is sunk by German forces off the Irish coast
- 1943: Tunis, in North Africa, captured by WW2 Allied forces
- 1960: Leonid Brezhnev becomes the President of the USSR
- 1973: US President Nixon denies all knowledge of the Watergate affair
- 1994: The Channel Tunnel opened by the British Queen and French President Mitterand
May 7th birthdays
- 1812: Robert Browning, English poet
- 1833: Johannes Brahms, German composer and friend of Schumanns
- 1840: Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian composer
- 1840: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer
- 1901: Gary Cooper, American film actor
- 1919: Marie Peron, Argentinian on who 'Evita' was based
- 1923: Anne Baxter, American film actress
