Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 May 7

Hu Lanqi

• ... that before Hu Lanqi (pictured) became China's first female major general, she was a magazine cover girl, a prisoner of Nazi Germany, and was invited to Moscow by Maxim Gorky?
• ... that the
  Great Irish Famine
  ?
• ... that during an 8-week period in World War II, Major General Douglass T. Greene was consecutively commander of the 16th Armored Division and the 12th Armored Division and then Deputy Commander of the Second United States Army?
• ... that
  Wrexham
  players following the latter club's dissolution?
• ... that Michael Laucke's snooker winnings allowed him to finance 110 trips from Montreal to New York City to study the classical guitar with Franco-Spaniard Rolando Valdès–Blain?
• ... that $100–$120 billion worth of
  nuclear agreement
  will lead to the release of only about $30 billion of it?
• ... that officers of the United States have been delegated part of the "sovereign power" of the United States?
• ... that Chip Fairway left the sporting world at age 31 so that he could spend more time with his family?

Evacuation of Fort McMurray

• A wildfire (pictured) in Canada displaces 88,000 people and destroys more than 1,600 buildings in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
• In association football, Leicester City win the English Premier League for the first time.
• Mark Selby defeats Ding Junhui to win the World Snooker Championship.
• The Kenyan government burns the largest-ever pile of ivory to combat illegal ivory trade.
• President of Equatorial Guinea
  .
• An
  crashes near Bergen
  , Norway, killing all 13 on board.

• Ongoing events
• Recent deaths
  :
  • Daniel Berrigan
  • Harry Kroto
  • Renato Corona

May 7: Easter Saturday (Eastern Christianity, 2016)

Maximilien Robespierre

• 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
• 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.
• Kiev, only to be driven out by the Soviet Red Army
  counter-offensive a month later.
• 1946 – Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, which later changed its name to Sony.
• 2007 – A team of Israeli archaeologists discovered the tomb of 1st century BC ruler of Judea Herod the Great.

• More anniversaries:
  • May 6
  • May 7
  • May 8