May 7<\/p>\n
558 \u2013 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, 20 years after its construction. Roman Emperor Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.<\/p>\n
1487 \u2013 King Ferdinand of Aragon besieges the Emirate of Granada’s port of M\u00e1laga with an army of 20,000 horsemen, 50,000 laborers, and 8,000 support troops during the Spanish Reconquista.<\/p>\n
1664 \u2013 Louis XIV of France begins construction of the Palace of Versailles.<\/p>\n
1718 \u2013 The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.<\/p>\n
1763 \u2013 Pontiac’s War begins with Chief Pontiac’s attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.<\/p>\n
1840 \u2013 The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people.<\/p>\n
1846 \u2013 Although now owned by the Gannett conglomerate, The Cambridge Chronicle,<\/em> America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 Off the coast of southern Ireland, German submarine U-20<\/em> sinks the RMS Lusitania<\/em>, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 During the Battle of the Coral Sea , U.S. Navy aircraft from carriers\u00a0 Lexington<\/em> and Yorktown<\/em> attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Sh\u014dh\u014d<\/em>; marking the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 German Wehrmacht Generaloberst Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at 02:41 hours Central European Time at SHAEF Headquarters at Reims, France, ending Germany’s participation in world War II, taking effect the next day at 23:01 hours.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (now Sony) is founded.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat by the Viet Minh<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers who had been shot down over Russia<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 Michigan votes to ratify the 27th Amendment, originally sent to the states in 1789, in the Bill of Rights as the original 2nd Article of Amendment, barring Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 During the Kosovo War, 3 Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by moslem terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 7 558 \u2013 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, 20 years after its construction. Roman Emperor Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt. 1487 \u2013 King Ferdinand of Aragon besieges the Emirate of Granada’s port of M\u00e1laga with an army of 20,000 horsemen, 50,000 laborers, and 8,000 support troops … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67620"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92544,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67620\/revisions\/92544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}