Once Upon A Time – May 7 – 1867 – Swedish Chemist Alfred Nobel Patents Dynamite In England

1429 English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel Patents Dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material

1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after established by Joseph Pulitzer

1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost

1939 Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis

1945 World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims

1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer

2017 Emmanuel Macron wins France’s presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen

Historical Events Today

Today In Film & TV

2017 “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” becomes the highest grossing Indian box office film ever earning $120 million

Today In Music

1824 Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th (Choral) Symphony, often regarded as his greatest work, premieres in Vienna

Today In Sport

1992 Champion Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr. retires after winning 7,057 thoroughbred horse races

Other Facts

1846 First printed copies of “Poems” by Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë received, published under pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell (2 copies sold)

2012 Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth