{"id":20696,"date":"2020-05-07T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=20696"},"modified":"2020-05-07T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:46:37","slug":"history-of-7-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-7-may-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 7 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 7 May<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211; A 203-year-old proposed constitutional amendment barring the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise was ratified as the 27th Amendment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; The Edvard Munch painting &#8220;The Scream&#8221; was recovered after being stolen 3 months earlier from an Oslo Museum. This version of &#8220;The Scream&#8221;, one of four different versions, was painted on paper.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> &#8211; The trial of Serbian police officer Dusan Tadic opened in the Netherlands. He was later convicted on murder-torture charges and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; A report released by the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0government said that Switzerland provided Nazi Germany with equipment and credit during World War II. Germany exchanged for gold what had been plundered or stolen. Switzerland did not comply with postwar agreements to return the gold.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40 billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Residents of London voted to elect their own mayor for the first time in history. The vote would take place in May 2000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Leeza Gibbons received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; A jury ruled that &#8220;The Jenny Jones Show&#8221; and Warner Bros. were liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure. He was killed by another guest on the show. The jury&#8217;s award was $25 million.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; Jerry Moss received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens were killed and 20 were wounded when a NATO plane mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; In Guinea-Bissau, the government of President Jo\u00e3o Bernardo Vieira was ousted in a military coup.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; Russian President Vladimir V. Putin named First Deputy Premier Mikhail Kasyanov as premier.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong> &#8211; In Washington, DC, General Motors Corp. delivered six fuel cell vehicles to Capitol Hill for lawmakers and others to test drive during the next two years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong> &#8211; Roger Moore collapsed during a matinee performance of the Broadway comedy &#8220;The Play What I Wrote.&#8221; He finished the show after a 10-minute break. He was fitted with a pacemaker the following day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong> &#8211; The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 15,056.20. It was the first time it had closed over 15,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0James Loney, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alex Smith, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kevin Owens, Canadian wrestler<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jarrad Hickey, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Drew Neitzel, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matt Helders, English drummer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Asami Konno, Japanese singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Michael Maidens, English footballer (d. 2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9my M\u00e9nez, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0David Schlemko, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Eino Puri, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sander Puri, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0David Aleksander Sj\u00f8lie, Norwegian guitarist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Raina, South Korean singer, dancer, model and rapper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Seko Fofana, French born Ivorian international footballer, midfielder<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jesse Puljuj\u00e4rvi, Finnish ice hockey player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 7 May 1992 &#8211; A 203-year-old proposed constitutional amendment barring the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise was ratified as the 27th Amendment. 1994 &#8211; The Edvard Munch painting &#8220;The Scream&#8221; was recovered after being stolen 3 months earlier from an Oslo Museum. 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