TODAY IN HISTORY
399BC May 7, Believed to be the day Socrates (b.469BC), Greek philosopher, committed suicide. He had been indicted for rejecting the Gods acknowledged by the State, of bringing in strange deities, and of corrupting the youth.http://www.biography.com/people/socrates-9488126#synopsis
1866 May 7, German premier Otto von Bismarck was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
1940 May 7, British PM Neville Chamberlain resigned and Winston Churchill became PM. Churchill formed a new government and served as the Conservative head of a coalition government with the opposition Labor Party.
1945 May 7, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. After five years, World War II in Europe ended when Colonel General Alfred Jodl, the last chief of staff of the German Army, signed the unconditional surrender at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters at Rheims, France. Journalist Edward Kennedy (1905-1963) made the news public and was suspended for defying political and military censors.
1952 May 7, The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
1964 May 7, A disturbed man entered the cockpit of a Pacific Airlines flight and killed pilot Ernie Clark (52). All 44 people aboard the Fairchild F-27A died as the plane crashed in San Ramon, Ca.
1982 May 7, IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1993 May 7, In South Africa, representatives of 23 political parties signed a declaration of intent to hold multiracial elections within a year.
1995 May 7, Jacques Chirac, the conservative mayor of Paris, won France's presidency in his third attempt, defeating Lionel Jospin in a runoff to end 14 years of Socialist rule.
2000 May 7, Pres. Kagame announced that Rwanda was prepared to quickly implement a phased withdrawal from Congo.
2007 May 7, The African Union announced it would send an extra 8,000 peacekeepers to Somalia but said dialogue remained the only solution to the bloody conflict in that country.
2007 May 7, Israeli scientists said they found King Herod’s tomb near Jerusalem.
2012 May 7, Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia
2012 May 7, Sudan's finance minister told parliament that failure to agree with South Sudan on oil fees has cost the Sudanese economy $2.4 billion dollars. Sudan resumed its aerial bombardment of South Sudan, violating international calls for a cessation of hostilities between the two countries. Attacks over the next 24 hours took place in the states of Upper Nile, Unity and Northern Bahr el Ghazal.
2013 May 7, Scientists said Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) is destroying entire crops of cassava and has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent. It is attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west into Nigeria, the world's biggest producer of the potato-like root that helps feed 500 million Africans.
2013 May 7, 55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
Source - wikipedia; http://www.timelines.ws and http://www.historyorb.com
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