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Radio Day in Bulgaria and Russia | no footnotes |
1274 – The first session of the Second Council of Lyon was held to discuss, among other issues, the pledge by Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos to end the Great Schism and reunite the Eastern church with the West. | refimprove section |
1718 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and the Mississippi Company founded New Orleans, naming the French colonial settlement after Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. | unreferenced section |
1824 – Ludwig van Beethoven's last complete symphony, the Symphony No. 9 in D minor, which incorporates part of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" in its fourth movement, premiered at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. | unreferenced sections |
1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide was launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. | lots of ((cn)) tags (9) |
1864 – The oldest surviving weekly newspaper in the United States, the Cambridge Chronicle, was first published. | unreferenced section |
1875 – Japan and Russia signed the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, where Japan ceded its portion of Sakhalin Island in exchange for the Kuril Islands, but differences in translations led to the ongoing Kuril Islands dispute between them. | Unicted content and OR |
1915 – First World War: The German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank the ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 on board. | refimprove section |
1920 – Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by signing the Treaty of Moscow, only to invade the country six months later. | unreferenced section |
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: During the Kiev Offensive, Polish troops, with the help of a symbolic Ukrainian force, captured Kiev, only to be driven out by the Soviet Red Army counter-offensive a month later. | unreferenced section |
1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, was first published by Geoffrey Dummer. | refimprove section, external links |
2007 – A team of Israeli archaeologists discovered the tomb of Herod the Great, the 1st century BC ruler of Judea. | refimprove section |
Christy Moore |b|1945 | refimprove section |
Daisy Pearce |b|1988 | TFA for 2022-05-07 |
* 1685 – Great Turkish War: Ottoman forces defeated Venetian irregulars at the Battle on Vrtijeljka. | too much uncited and excessive quote |