On This Day
May 7
1824. Beethoven's 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna.
1888. George Eastman patented his Kodak box camera, opening the hobby up to all.
1915. A German submarine torpedoed the liner Lusitania killing 1,400 people off the Irish coast and setting American public opinion against Germany and her allies.
1945. Germany signed an unconditional surrender finally ending six years of war in Europe. The Germans surrendered to Generals Montgomery and Bedell Smith at Rheims.
1960. Leonid Brezhnev became head of the USSR.
2000. Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as Russia's president.
2001. To protect Exmoor from infection, more than 1,000 cattle on two farms near Exmoor were slaughtered, even though they showed no sign of foot-and-mouth disease.
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