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Today in History: May 7

0558 The dome of the church of St. Sophia in Constantinople collapses. Its immediate rebuilding is ordered by Justinian.

1429 Joan of Arc breaks the English siege of Orleans.

1800 Congress divides the Northwest Territory into two parts. The western part will becomes the Indiana Territory and the eastern section remains the Northwest Territory.

1824 Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" premieres in Vienna.

1877 Indian chief Sitting Bull enters Canada with a trail of Indians after the Battle of Little Bighorn.

1942 In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attack each other with carrier-launched warplanes. It is the first time in the history of naval warfare where two fleets fought without seeing each other.Two crucial battles in 1942 marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

1960 Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union.


Born on May 7

1901 Gary Cooper, film actor (High Noon, Friendly Persuasion).

1909 Edwin Herbert Land, inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera.

JOTD
Are your kids twins?

A very loud, unattractive, mean, nasty woman walked into Wal-Mart with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance.
The Wal-Mart Greeter said pleasantly, "Good morning, and welcome to Wal-Mart. Nice children you have there. Are they twins?"
The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to say, "Hell no they ain't. The oldest one's 9 and the other one's 7. Why the hell would you think they're twins? Are you blind, or just stupid?"
"I'm neither blind nor stupid, Ma'am," replied the greeter, "I just couldn't believe someone would frick you twice ..."