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Thursday, 07 May 2026

2008

Dmitry Medvedev is sworn in as Russia's president.

2007

The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.

2002

A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

2000

Vladimir Putin is inaugurated president of Russia

1999

Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

A 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.

Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.

1998

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

1992

Michigan 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.

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