May 7: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1429 - Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in theHundred Years' War.
2. 1718 - The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
3. 1824 - World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
4. 1846 - The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
5. 1847 - The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
6. 1895 - 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 Unionthe anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
7. 1915 - World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire
8. 1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
9. 1992 - Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
10. 2007 - Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
11. Famous Birthdays: Robert Browning (English poet), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian composer), Rabindranath Tagore (Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate), Władysław Reymont (Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate), Edwin H. Land (American scientist and inventor, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation)

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