May 7 in history — What Happened Today in History

Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.

Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.

A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.

Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.

Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.

Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).

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

The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.

World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.

Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.

The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.

The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.

Polish–Soviet War: Kyiv offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.

Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.

The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.

In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.

American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.

The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.

The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.

Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London.

World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.

French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses.

French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, South Korean League of Legends pro gamer

Seko Fofana, Ivorian international footballer

Will Ospreay, English wrestler

Ajla Tomljanovic, Australian tennis player

Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor and musician

Sydney Leroux, Canadian-American footballer

Earl Thomas, American football player

Aidy Bryant, American actress and comedian

Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer

Matt Helders, English drummer

J Balvin, Colombian singer-songwriter and producer

James Loney, American baseball player

Kevin Owens, Canadian wrestler

Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (born 1957)

Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)

Big George, English songwriter, producer, and radio host (born 1957)

Victor Nosach, Soviet historian (born 1929)

Adele Mara, American actress, singer and dancer (born 1923)

Wally Hickel, American politician, Governor of Alaska and Secretary of the Interior (born 1919)

David Mellor, English designer (born 1930)

Danny Ozark, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1923)

Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (born 1958)

Diego Corrales, American boxer (born 1977)

Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1926)

Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader, founded the Nation of Yahweh (born 1935)

Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (born 1943)