On This Day for May 7 - Theatre Royal opened, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is featured, and more

Created: 2020-05-07 10:03 Updated: 2020-05-07 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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May 07

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

FEATURED EVENT

1663

Theatre Royal opened

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2002: On the 25th anniversary of his Kentucky Derby win, Seattle Slew, the first undefeated racehorse ever to win the U.S. Triple Crown, died. [ Can you identify these well-known horses?]

1954: Viet Minh General Vo Nguyen Giap took the French by surprise at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, surrounding their base with 40,000 men and employing heavy artillery to capture it during the First Indochina War. [Test your knowledge of significant moments in military history.]

1946: Sony Corporation, a major Japanese manufacturer of consumer electronics products, was founded by Ibuka Masaru and Morita Akio. [Take our electronics and gadgets quiz.]

1945: A German delegation that included General Alfred Jodl went to U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims, France, and signed the surrender documents that ended the European phase of World War II. [ Sort fact from fiction in our World War II quiz.]

1919: Argentine political figure Eva Perón—who, as the wife of President Juan Perón, became a powerful though unofficial leader—was born.

1918: The Treaty of Bucharest forced Romania to make territorial and financial reparations following its defeat by the Central Powers during World War I. [ How much do you know about World War I?]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1748

Olympe de Gouges
French writer

1861

Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet

1840

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer

1711

David Hume
Scottish philosopher

1892

Josip Broz Tito
president of Yugoslavia