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May 7th, 2007EventThe tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
May 7th, 2002EventA China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
May 7th, 1999EventPope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
May 7th, 1999EventA jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure s family $25 million USD.
May 7th, 1999EventKosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
May 7th, 1999EventIn Guinea-Bissau, President Joao Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
May 7th, 1998EventMercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
May 7th, 1992EventMichigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
May 7th, 1992EventSpace Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage (STS-49).
May 7th, 1992EventThree 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.

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