Historical Events for 7th May 2020

1274 – 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens, convened by Pope Gregory X
1917 – Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1919 – A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to Germans
1927 – Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
1970 – “Long and Winding Road” becomes Beatles’ last American release
1982 – IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1992 – Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2013 – The Dow Jones Industrial average and SandP 500 set record highs

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