On This Day in History

May 7

Historical Events

1429 English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army.

1906 Advertisement for Nobel's Dynamite in a German newspaper

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material.

1912 Columbia University approves plans to award the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after establishment by Joseph Pulitzer.

1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.

1945 Unconditional German surrender to the Allies in World War II signed by German General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.

1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

2017 Emmanuel Macron wins France's presidential election, defeating Marine Le Pen

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Famous Birthdays

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 - 1893 Rabindranath Tagore 1861 - 1941

Edwin Land 1909 - 1991 MrBeast 26th Birthday

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Famous Deaths

H. H. Holmes 1861 - 1896 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 1909 - 2000

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Hero Millionaire Saves Lusitania Children

American millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt died a hero on this day trying to save women and children aboard the liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German U-boat.

Millionaire Dies a Hero