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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Civil Jets: The Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet Documentary DVD, Download, USB
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7: National Tourism Day: -- Get out and get away! Open up to new experiences and make way for adventure! In honor of National Tourism Day, take some time to celebrate and show appreciation for the freedom and ability to take excursions and trips whether near to home or across the world. The modern form of tourism got its start in Europe back in the 17th century. Prior to that time, the main reasons for travel were often related to either trade and business or for religious pilgrimage purposes. Prior to the industrial revolution, travel was slow and difficult, often taking months to complete a journey that could be completed in just a few days now. By the 17th century, young European nobles began to take educational trips to learn more about other countries and cultures, often called the "Grand Tour". With the advancement of train travel and steamer ships, travel became more and more accessible. National Tourism Day was established to encourage and celebrate the benefits of travel. It was in 1983 that US President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation that urged Americans to observe National Travel & Tourism Week for a week in early May. From there, National Tourism Day evolved and started its celebration on May 7. In October 1958, Pan American Airlines, in order to reduce its seat cost by 30% to make flying more affordable for an untapped prospective tourist market. wanted a jet airliner 2+1/2 times the size of its newly acquired Boeing 707 long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. To accomodate this request, Boeing moved its star engineer Joe Sutter, who became known as "The Father Of The 747", from its 737 development program to design the 747. In April 1966, Pan Am ordered 25 Boeing 747-100 aircraft, and in late 1966, Pratt & Whitney agreed to develop the JT9D engine, a high-bypass turbofan fanjet. On September 30, 1968, the first 747 was rolled out of the custom-built Everett Plant, the world's largest building by volume. The 747's first flight took place on February 9, 1969, and the 747 was certified in December of that year. It entered service with Pan Am on January 22, 1970. The 747 was the first airplane called a "Jumbo Jet" as the first wide-body airliner, and made international tourism possible for large numbers of world travelers. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/civil-jets-the-boeing-747-jumbo-jet-747.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: China In Revolution 1911-1949 TV Series DVD, Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7: National Day Of Humiliation (The Republic Of China, The Peoples Republic Of China): -- May 7, 1915: China: The History Of China: The Century Of Humiliation (The Hundred Years Of National Humiliation): The Warlord Era: The Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum (National Day Of Humiliation [Republic Of China]): -- A reduced set of "Thirteen Demands" was transmitted by Japan to China on May 7 in the form of an ultimatum, with a two-day deadline for response. The Twenty-One Demands were a set of demands made during the First World War by the Empire Of Japan under Prime Minister Okuma Shigenobu sent to the government of the Republic Of China on January 8, 1915. The demands would greatly extend Japanese control of Manchuria and of the Chinese economy, and were opposed by Britain and the United States. In the final settlement Japan gained a little but lost a great deal of prestige and trust in Britain and the US. The Chinese people responded with a spontaneous nationwide boycott of Japanese goods; Japan's exports to China fell 40%. Britain was affronted and no longer trusted Japan as a partner. With the First World War underway, Japan's position was strong and Britain's was weak. Nevertheless, Britain (and the United States) forced Japan to drop the fifth set of demands that would have given Japan a large measure of control over the entire Chinese economy and ended the Open Door Policy. Japan obtained its first four sets of goals in a treaty with China on May 25, 1915. The Twenty One Demands were grouped into five groups: Group #1 confirmed Japan's recent seizure of German ports and operations in Shandong Province, and expanded Japan's sphere of influence over the railways, coasts and major cities of the province; Group #2 pertained to Japan's South Manchuria Railway Zone, extending the leasehold over the territory for 99 years, and expanding Japan's sphere of influence in southern Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, to include rights of settlement and extraterritoriality, appointment of financial and administrative officials to the government and priority for Japanese investments in those areas. Japan demanded access to Inner Mongolia for raw materials, as a manufacturing site, and as a strategic buffer against Russian encroachment in Korea; Group #3 gave Japan control of the Hanyeping mining and metallurgical complex in central China; it was deep in debt to Japan. Group #4 barred China from giving any further coastal or island concessions to foreign powers; and Group #5 was the most aggressive. China was to hire Japanese advisors who could take effective control of China's finance and police. Japan would be empowered to build three major railways, and also Buddhist temples and schools. Japan would gain effective control of Fujian, opposite the island of Formosa (modern Taiwan). Knowing the negative reaction Group #5 would cause, Japan initially tried to keep its contents secret. The Chinese government attempted to stall for as long as possible and leaked the full contents of the Twenty-One Demands to the European powers in the hope that due to a perceived threat to their own political and economic spheres of interest, they would help contain Japan. After China rejected Japan's revised proposal on April 26, 1915, the genro intervened and deleted 'Group 5' from the document, as these had proved to be the most objectionable to the Chinese government. Yuan Shikai, competing with other local warlords to become the ruler of all China, was not in a position to risk war with Japan, and accepted appeasement, a tactic followed by his successors. The final form of the treaty was signed by both parties on May 25, 1915. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/china-in-revolution-19111949-dvd-2-part-tv-documenta191119492.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: French Revolution Series + Irish Rebellion & 3 Bonuses: 3 MP4s or DVDs
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1794: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The French First Republic (French: Premiere Republique; Revolutionary France, Officially The French Republic [French: Republique Francaise]): The National Convention (French: Convention Nationale): The Cult Of The Supreme Being (French: Culte De L'Etre Supreme): -- Maximilien Robespierre introduces The Cult Of The Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic. The Cult Of The Supreme Being was a form of deism intended as a replacement for Roman Catholicism and its rival, the Cult of Reason, France's first established state sponsored atheistic religion. Robespierre believed that reason is only a means to an end, and the singular end is virtue. He sought to move beyond simple deism (often described as Voltairean by its adherents) to a new and, in his view, more rational devotion to the godhead. The primary principles of the Cult Of The Supreme Being were a belief in the existence of a god and the immortality of the human soul. Though not inconsistent with Christian doctrine, these beliefs were put to the service of Robespierre's fuller meaning, which was of a type of civic-minded, public virtue he attributed to the Greeks and Romans. This type of virtue could only be attained through active fidelity to liberty and democracy.] Belief in a living god and a higher moral code, he said, were "constant reminders of justice" and thus essential to a republican society. To inaugurate the new state religion, Robespierre declared that 20 Prairial Year II (June 8, 1794) would be the first day of national celebration of the Supreme Being, and future republican holidays were to be held every tenth day, the days of rest (decadi) in the new French Republican Calendar. Every locality was mandated to hold a commemorative event, but the event in Paris was designed on a massive scale. The festival was organized by the artist Jacques-Louis David and took place around a man-made mountain on the Champ de Mars. Robespierre assumed full leadership of the event, forcefully, and, to many, ostentatiously, declaring the truth and "social utility" of his new religion. The Cult Of The Supreme Being and its festival may have contributed to the Thermidorian Reaction (On 9 Thermidor Year II [July 27, 1794], Robespierre was denounced by members of the National Convention as "a tyrant", leading to Robespierre and twenty-one associates including Louis Antoine de Saint-Just being arrested that night and beheaded on the following day). With Robespiere's execution by guillotine on July 28, 1794, the cult lost all official sanction, and disappeared from public view. It was officially banned by Napoleon Bonaparte on April 8, 1802 with his Law on Cults of 18 Germinal, Year X. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-french-revolution-dvd-3-part-tv-documentary-serie3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Daley: The Last Boss: Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley MP4 Download DVD
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1800: The United States: The History Of The United States: The Territorial Expansion Of The United States (The Territorial Evolution Of The United States): Chicago: The History Of Chicago: -- Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable (also spelled Point De Sable, Point Au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe Du Sable), Black Haitian American frontier trader, fur trapper, farmer and businessman known as "The Father Of Chicago" and "The Founder Of Chicago", regarded as the first permanent non-native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, recognized as the city's founder (before 1750 - August 28, 1818) sells all his Chicago property, where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s, a site now memorialized as a National Historic Landmark located in what is now Pioneer Court, for 1.2K USD. Point du Sable was of African descent, but little else is known of his early life prior to the 1770s. There are no records of Point du Sable's life prior to the 1770s. Though it is known from sources during his life that he was of African descent, his birth date, place of birth, and parents are unknown. Juliette Kinzie, another early pioneer of Chicago, never met Point du Sable but said in her 1856 memoir that he was "a native of St. Domingo" (the island of Hispaniola). This became generally accepted as his place of birth. Historian Milo Milton Quaife regarded Kinzie's account of Point du Sable as "largely fictitious and wholly unauthenticated", later putting forward a theory that he was of African and French-Canadian origin. A historical novel published in 1953 helped to popularize the claim that Point du Sable was born in 1745 in Saint-Marc in Saint-Domingue (later known as Haiti). If he was born outside continental North America, there are competing accounts as to whether he entered as a trader or from the north through French Canada, or from the south through French Louisiana. During his career, the areas where he settled and traded around the Great Lakes and in the Illinois Country changed hands several times between France, Britain, Spain and the United States. Described as handsome and well educated, Point du Sable married a Potawatomi Native American woman, Kitihawa, and they had two children. In 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, he was arrested by the British on suspicion of being an American Patriot sympathizer. In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now St. Clair, Michigan. Point du Sable is first recorded as living at the mouth of the Chicago River in a trader's journal of early 1790. By then he had established an extensive and prosperous trading settlement in what later became the City of Chicago. He sold his Chicago River property in 1800, returned to Peoria, Illinois, and moved to the port of St. Charles, where he was licensed to run a ferry across the Missouri River. Point du Sable's successful role in developing the Chicago River settlement was little recognized until the mid-20th century. In 20th and 21st century Chicago, a school, museum, harbor, park, bridge, and road have been named in du Sable's honor. He died on August 28, 1818, almost penniless, and was buried in an unmarked grave in St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery in St. Charles, Missouri. His entry in the parish burial register does not mention his origins, parents, or relatives; it simply describes him as negre (French for negro). The St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery was moved twice in the 19th century. Oral tradition and records of the Archdiocese of St. Louis suggested that Point du Sable's remains were also moved. On October 12, 1968, the Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission erected a granite marker at the site believed to be Point du Sable's grave in the third St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery. In 2002 an archaeological investigation of the grave site was initiated by the African Scientific Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Researchers using a combination of ground-penetrating radar, surveys, and excavation of a 9-by-9-foot (2.7 m _ 2.7 m) area did not find any evidence of any burials at the supposed grave site, leading the archaeologists to conclude that Point du Sable's remains may not have been reinterred from one of the two previous cemeteries. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dalabochmari.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Beethoven: The Composer As Hero DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1824: Premieres: Theatre Premieres: Musical Premieres: Symphony Premieres: -- Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, best known as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, recieves its premier performance in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as Beethoven's greatest work and one of the supreme achievements in the history of western music. One of the best-known works in common practice music, it stands as one of the most performed symphonies in the world. The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony. The words are sung during the final (4th) movement of the symphony by four vocal soloists and a chorus. They were taken from the "Ode to Joy", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with text additions made by Beethoven. In 2001, Beethoven's original, hand-written manuscript of the score, held by the Berlin State Library, was added to the United Nations Memory of the World Programme Heritage list, becoming the first musical score so designated. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/beethoven-the-composer-as-hero-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Tchaikovsky's Centennial Deathday Musical Memorial MP4 Download DVD
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1840: #BOTD: #HBD! Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer of the Romantic period, the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally (d. November 6, 1893) is #born in Votkinsk, a small town in Vyatka Governorate (present-day Udmurtia) near the banks of the Kama River, and not far from the Ural Mountains in the Russian Empire, into a family with a long history of military service. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin. Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant as there was little opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no system of public music education. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching that Tchaikovsky received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement embodied by the Russian composers of The Five with whom his professional relationship was mixed. Tchaikovsky's training set him on a path to reconcile what he had learned with the native musical practices to which he had been exposed from childhood. From that reconciliation, he forged a personal but unmistakably Russian style. The principles that governed melody, harmony, and other fundamentals of Russian music ran completely counter to those that governed Western European music, which seemed to defeat the potential for using Russian music in large-scale Western composition or for forming a composite style, and it caused personal antipathies that dented Tchaikovsky's self-confidence. Russian culture exhibited a split personality, with its native and adopted elements having drifted apart increasingly since the time of Peter the Great. That resulted in uncertainty among the intelligentsia about the country's national identity, an ambiguity mirrored in Tchaikovsky's career. Despite his many popular successes, Tchaikovsky's life was punctuated by personal crises and depression. Contributory factors included his early separation from his mother for boarding school followed by his mother's early death, the death of his close friend and colleague Nikolai Rubinstein, his failed marriage with Antonina Miliukova, and the collapse of his 13-year association with the wealthy patroness Nadezhda Von Meck. Tchaikovsky's homosexuality, which he kept private, has traditionally also been considered a major factor though some scholars have played down its importance. His dedication of his Sixth symphony to his nephew Vladimir "Bob" Davydov and his feelings expressed about Davydov in letters to others, especially following Davydov's suicide, have been cited as evidence for a romantic love between the two. Tchaikovsky's sudden death at the age of 53 is generally ascribed to cholera, but there is an ongoing debate as to whether cholera was indeed the cause and whether the death was accidental or intentional. While his music has remained popular among audiences, critical opinions were initially mixed. Some Russians did not feel it was sufficiently representative of native musical values and expressed suspicion that Europeans accepted the music for its Western elements. In an apparent reinforcement of the latter claim, some Europeans lauded Tchaikovsky for offering music more substantive than exoticism, and said he transcended the stereotypes of Russian classical music. Others dismissed Tchaikovsky's music as deficient because they did not stringently follow Western principles. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky #died in Saint Petersburg, Russia, nine days after he conducted the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, the Pathetique, aged 53. He is interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, near the graves of fellow-composers Alexander Borodin, Mikhail Glinka, and Modest Mussorgsky; later, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Mily Balakirev were also buried nearby. Tchaikovsky's death is attributed to cholera, caused by drinking unboiled water at a local restaurant. In the 1980s in Britain, however, there was academic speculation that he killed himself, either with poison or by contracting cholera intentionally; it has been alleged that a secret jury of his musical peers directed him to commit suicide to atone for a homosexual relationship, then very taboo in Russia; in the New Grove Dictionary of Music, Roland John Wiley wrote: "the polemics over Tchaikovsky's death have reached an impasse. As for illness, problems of evidence offer little hope of satisfactory resolution: the state of diagnosis; the confusion of witnesses; disregard of long-term effects of smoking and alcohol. We do not know how Tchaikovsky died. We may never find out." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tchaikovsky-centennial-deathday-musical-memorial-mp4-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Ulysses S. Grant & The Battle Of The Wilderness DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1864: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War: The Overland Campaign (Grant's Overland Campaign, The Wilderness Campaign): The Battle Of The Wilderness: -- The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, ends as they break off from The Battle Of The Wilderness (May 5-7, 1864) and move southwards. On the morning of May 7, Grant was faced with the prospect of attacking strong Confederate earthworks. His cavalry was south of the infantry, fighting in the Battle Of Todd's Tavern that was fought in anticipation of Grant's southward move. Instead of more infantry attacks, Grant chose to maneuver. By moving south on the Brock Road, he hoped to reach the crossroads at Spotsylvania Court House, which would interpose his army between Lee and Richmond, forcing Lee to fight on ground more advantageous to the Union army. He ordered preparations for a night march on May 7 that would reach Spotsylvania, 10 miles (16 km) to the southeast, by the morning of May 8. Once Lee found out Grant was moving south instead of turning back, he correctly predicted Grant would move to Spotsylvania Court House. Lee got his army there first, and erected formidable earthworks. Grant's infantry fought the Battle Of Spotsylvania Court House before maneuvering yet again as the campaign continued south toward Richmond. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ulysses-s-grant-amp-the-battle-of-the-wilderness-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Classic Western TV Kid Shows Collection DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1885: #BOTD: #HBD! Gabby Hayes, American actor, particularly in cowby and wild west films (d. February 9, 1969) is #born George Francis Hayes in Stannards, New York, a hamlet just outside Wellsville, New York (Hayes always gave Wellsville as his birthplace, but legally he was born in Stannards). Gabby Hayes' career began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western film series as the bewhiskered, cantankerous, woman-hating, but ever-loyal and brave comic sidekick of the cowboy stars Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Gabby Hayes died at Saint Joseph Hospital in Burbank, California of cardiovascular disease at the age of 83. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-western-tv-kid-shows-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Marshal Josip Broz Tito Biography Film Set MP4 Video Download Or DVD
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1892: #BOTD: Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist revolutionary, field marshal and political leader (d. May 4, 1980) is #born Josip Broz in Kumrovec, Kingdom Of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia). Popularly known as Tito, he served Yugoslavia in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian and concerns about the repression of political opponents have been raised, some historians consider him a benevolent dictator. He was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad. Viewed as a unifying symbol, his internal policies maintained the peaceful coexistence of the nations of the Yugoslav federation. He gained further international attention as the chief leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, alongside Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia, and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. Broz was born to a Croat father and Slovene mother in the village of Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia). Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time. After being seriously wounded and captured by the Imperial Russians during World War I, he was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains. He participated in some events of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and subsequent Civil War. Upon his return home, Broz found himself in the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). He was General Secretary (later Chairman of the Presidium) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939-1980) and went on to lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Partisans (1941-1945). After the war, he was the Prime Minister (1944-1963), President (later President for Life) (1953-1980) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, he received some 98 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath. Tito was the chief architect of the second Yugoslavia, a socialist federation that lasted from November 1942 until April 1992. Despite being one of the founders of Cominform, he became the first Cominform member to defy Soviet hegemony in 1948 and the only one in Joseph Stalin's time to manage to leave Cominform and begin with its own socialist program with elements of market socialism. Economists active in the former Yugoslavia, including Czech-born Jaroslav Vanek and Croat-born Branko Horvat, promoted a model of market socialism dubbed the Illyrian model, where firms were socially owned by their employees and structured on workers' self-management and competed with each other in open and free markets. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/marshal-josip-broz-tito-dvd-yugoslav-revolutionary-president.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Wings (1927) Clara Bow Buddy Rogers Gary Cooper DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Gary Cooper, American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances (d. May 13, 1961) is #born Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana. Gary Cooper had a career that spanned thirty-six years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in eighty-four feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women, and his range of performances included roles in most major film genres. Cooper's ability to project his own personality onto the characters he played contributed to his natural and authentic appearance on screen. Throughout his career, he sustained a screen persona that represented the ideal American hero. Cooper began his career as a film extra and stunt rider, but soon landed acting roles. He establishing himself in his early silent films as a hero in Westerns and in Wings, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. Cooper became a movie star in 1929 with his first sound picture, The Virginian. In the early 1930s, he expanded his heroic image to include more cautious characters in adventure films and dramas such as A Farewell to Arms (1932) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). During the height of his career, Cooper portrayed a new type of hero-a champion of the common man-in films such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). In the postwar years, he portrayed more mature characters at odds with the world in films such as The Fountainhead (1949) and High Noon (1952). In his final films, Cooper played non-violent characters searching for redemption in films such as Friendly Persuasion (1956) and Man of the West (1958). In 1933, he married New York debutante Veronica Balfe; the couple had one daughter. The marriage was interrupted by a three-year separation that was precipitated by Cooper's love affair with Patricia Neal. Cooper received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in Sergeant York and High Noon. He also received an Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements in 1961. He was one of the top ten film personalities for twenty-three consecutive years and was one of the top money-making stars for eighteen years. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper eleventh on its list of the twenty five greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Gary Cooper died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 60. He is buried at Sacred Hearts Cemetery in Southampton, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wings-1927-dvd-clara-bow-gary-cooper-wwi-aviation-1927.html

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Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1915: The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Western Front Of World War I: Naval Warfare Of World War I: The U-boat Campaign (The U-boat Campaign 1914-1918): Maritime Incidents: Passenger Ship Incidents: Ocean Liner Incidents: The RMS Lusitania: The Sinking Of The RMS Lusitania: -- The German submarine U-20 sinks the British passenger ship RMS Lusitania carrying 2,000 passengers was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, losing 1,198 of its 1,924 passengers, including 128 Americans. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought. The sinking of the Cunard Line ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. The vessel went down 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, leaving 761 survivors. Lusitania fell victim to torpedo attack relatively early in the First World War, before tactics for evading submarines were properly implemented or understood. The contemporary investigations in both the United Kingdom and the United States into the precise causes of the ship's loss were obstructed by the needs of wartime secrecy and a propaganda campaign to ensure all blame fell upon Germany. Argument over whether the ship was a legitimate military target raged back and forth throughout the war as both sides made misleading claims about the ship. At the time she was sunk, she was carrying over 4 million rounds of small-arms ammunition (.303 caliber), almost 5,000 shrapnel shell casings (for a total of some 50 tons), and 3,240 brass percussion fuses, in addition to 1,266 passengers and a crew of 696. Several attempts have been made over the years since the sinking to dive to the wreck seeking information about precisely how the ship sank, and argument continues to the present day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/uboat-wwi-amp-wwii-uboats-german-submarine-films-dvd.html

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Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1919: #BOTD: Eva Peron, also known by the nickname Evita, Argentine actress, politician, activist, and philanthropist who served as 25th First Lady of Argentina, as wife of Argentine President Juan Peron, from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, and who became a part of international popular culture, most famously as the subject of the musical Evita (1976) (d. July 26, 1952) is #born Maria Eva Duarte in poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five illegitimate children. She moved at the age of 15 to Argentina's nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress in 1934. Maria Eva Duarte de Peron met Colonel Juan Peron on January 22, 1944 during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina. The two were married the following year. Juan Peron was elected President of Argentina in June 1946; during the next six years, Eva Peron became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Peron Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party. In 1951, Eva Peron announced her candidacy for the Peronist nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina, receiving great support from the Peronist political base, low-income and working-class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones". Opposition from the nation's military and bourgeoisie, coupled with her declining health, ultimately forced her to withdraw her candidacy. In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Peron was given the title of "Spiritual Leader Of The Nation" by the Argentine Congress. She was given a state funeral upon her death, a prerogative generally reserved for heads of state.She is buried at the Cementerio De La Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cristina Alvarez Rodriguez claims that Evita has never left the collective consciousness of Argentines. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the first woman elected President of Argentina, claims that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for "her example of passion and combativeness". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/evita-peron-1981-tv-miniseries-faye-dunaway-mp4-video-downloa19814.html

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May 7, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Darren McGavin, American set painter, actor of stage, radio, television and film, best known on radio and television for Casey, Crime Photographer (1951-1952); on the Broadway stage in My Three Angels and The Rainmaker (both 1954); on television as the title character in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958-1959), Riverboat (1959-1961), Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-1975) and Murphy Brown (1988-1998); and on film in Summertime and The Man with the Golden Arm (both 1955), No Deposit, No Return (1976), Airport '77 (1977), Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978), A Christmas Story (1983), Happy Hell Night (1992), and Billy Madison (d. February 25, 2006) is #born William Lyle Richardson in Spokane, Washington. He also starred in the film Hangar 18 (1980) and the television series Ike: The War Years (1979) and My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985). Darren McGavin died of cardiovascular disease in a Los Angeles hospital, aged 83. He is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Wife Kathie Browne-McGavin is buried at another local cemetery just 6 miles away at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles County, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hangar-18-dvd-crashed-ufo-movie-gary-collins-robert-vaug18.html

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May 7, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! Anne Baxter, American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, radio and television series, grandaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, and beauty (d. December 12, 1985) is #born in Michigan City, Indiana. Baxter won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Emmy. She studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and had some stage experience before making her film debut in 20 Mule Team (1940). She became a contract player of 20th Century Fox and was loaned to RKO Pictures for the role of Lucy Morgan in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), one of her earlier films. In 1947, she won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge (1946). In 1951, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role in All About Eve (1950). She worked with several of Hollywood's greatest directors, including Billy Wilder in Five Graves to Cairo (1943), Alfred Hitchcock in I Confess (1953), Fritz Lang in The Blue Gardenia (1953), and Cecil B. DeMille in The Ten Commandments (1956), for which she won a Laurel Award for Topliner Female Dramatic Performance. Anne Baxter died of a stroke suffered on December 4, 1985, while hailing a taxi on Madison Avenue in New York City, aged 62. Baxter remained on life support for eight days in New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, until family members agreed that brain function had ceased. Baxter is buried on the estate of Frank Lloyd Wright at the Unity Chapel cemetery in the town of Wyoming, south of Spring Green, Wisconsin. The cemetery is the private cemetery of the Lloyd Jones family, Baxter's mother's side of the family. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/going-hollywood-the-war-years-us-wwii-cinema-dvd-download-usb-drive.html

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May 7, 1932: #BOTD: #HBD! Derek Taylor, English journalist, writer, publicist and record producer, best known for his role as press officer to the Beatles in 1964 and then from 1968 to 1970, one of several associates to earn the moniker "the Fifth Beatle" (d. September 7, 1997) is #born in Wirral, England. Before returning to London to head the publicity for the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation in 1968, he worked as the publicist for California-based bands such as the Byrds, the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas. Taylor was known for his forward-thinking and extravagant promotional campaigns, exemplified in taglines such as "The Beatles Are Coming" and "Brian Wilson Is a Genius". He was equally dedicated to the 1967 Summer of Love ethos and helped stage that year's Monterey Pop Festival. Taylor started his career as a local journalist on the Wirral, now part of Merseyside, aged 17 working for the Hoylake and West Kirby Advertiser followed by the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. He then became a North England-based writer for national British newspapers that included the News Chronicle, the Sunday Dispatch and the Sunday Express. He also served as a regular columnist and theatre critic for the Daily Express from 1952. During the 1970s, Taylor worked for Warner Bros. Records and then HandMade Films. The term "pocket symphony" is generally attributed to Taylor for his description of the Beach Boys' 1966 single "Good Vibrations". A trusted confidant of the Beatles, Taylor remained particularly close to George Harrison long after the band's break-up and maintained a friendship with John Lennon until the latter's death in 1980. In addition to working as editor on Harrison's 1980 autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Taylor authored books such as As Time Goes By, The Making of Raiders of The Lost Ark, Fifty Years Adrift (In An Open Necked Shirt) and It Was Twenty Years Ago Today. Having returned to Apple in the early 1990s, Taylor died of throat cancer at his home in Sudbury, Suffolk, aged 65. Having returned to Apple in the early 1990s, he died while he was still working for Apple, helping to compile the Beatles Anthology book. His funeral took place in Sudbury, Suffolk on September 12, attended by family and friends such as Beatle George Harrison, Neil Aspinall, Michael Palin (who played the character Eric Manchester based on him in The Rutles mockumentary "All You Need Is Cash"), Neil Innes and Jools Holland. He is buried in Sudbury Cemetery, Sudbury, Suffolk, England. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/it-was-20-years-ago-today-1967-and-sgt-pepp201967.html

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May 7, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Jimmy Ruffin, African American soul singer who had several hit records between the 1960s and 1980s, the most successful being the Top 10 hits "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted" and "Hold On (To My Love)" (d. November 17, 2014) is #born Jimmy Lee Ruffin in Collinsville, Mississippi. Jimmy Ruffin was the elder brother of David Ruffin of the Temptations. Jimmy Ruffin died in Las Vegas, Nevada of undisclosed causes, aged 78. Ruffin is buried at Palm Memorial Park Northwest Cemetery, Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada in the Garden of Eternal Life Section. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

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May 7, 1937: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Spanish Civil War: The Siege Of Madrid: Air Warfare Of The Spanish Civil War: The Condor Legion (German: Legion Condor): -- The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 single-seat biplane fighter aircraft, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's Nationalist Faction forces. The Condor Legion was a unit composed of military personnel from the air force and army of Nazi Germany, which served with the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War of July 1936 to March 1939. The Condor Legion developed methods of strategic bombing which were used widely in the Second World War shortly afterwards. The bombing of Guernica was the most infamous operation carried out by the Condor Legion. Hugo Sperrle commanded the unit's aircraft formations and Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma commanded the ground element. Its most distinguished alumnus was Adolf Galland, German Luftwaffe general and flying ace who served throughout the Second World War in Europe with 705 combat missions and 104 aerial victories, all of them against the Western Allies. While serving in the Condor Legion, Galland piloted a Heinkel He 51 C der 3/J 88, 2/78. The Heinkel He 51 single-seat biplane fighter aircraft was produced in a number of different versions. It was initially developed as a fighter, a seaplane variant and a ground-attack fighter-bomber version were also developed. It was a development of the earlier He 49. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-the-luftwaffe-dvd.html

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May 7, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! Johnny Maestro, American pop/doo-wop singer, best known as a member of the Doo Wop bands The Del-Satins, The Crests and The Brooklyn Bridge (d. March 24, 2010) is #born John Peter Mastrangelo in New York City. Maestro began his career in 1957 as the original lead singer of The Crests, one of the first interracial groups of the recording industry. The Crests were an American doo-wop group, formed by bass vocalist J.T. Carter in the mid 1950s. The group had several Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s on Coed Records. Their most popular song, "16 Candles", rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1959 selling over one million copies and earning a gold disc status. The group's other hits include "Step By Step", "The Angels Listened In", "Trouble In Paradise", "Six Nights A Week", and "A Year Ago Tonight". The Crests were the first interracially mixed doo-wop group, consisting of three African American members (one female), one Puerto Rican, and one Italian American. Patricia Van Dross, older sister to famed R & B singer Luther Vandross, sang with Johnny Maestro while The Crests were signed to the Joyce Record label. Before The Crests signed with Coed Records, Patricia left the group because her mother didn't want her 15-year-old daughter touring with the older guys. Late in 1960, Maestro would leave The Crests for a solo career. Maestro was unable to reach his former chart heights with The Crests. The Del-Satins were an American vocal group, most active in the early 1960s, who recorded on their own but are best remembered for their harmonies on hit records for Dion and others. They song on Dion's "Runaround Sue", "The Wanderer", "Lovers Who Wander", "Little Diane", "Love Came to Me", "Ruby Baby", "Donna the Prima Donna", "Drip Drop", and "Sandy", as well as on records by Len Barry and Dean and Jean. They also provided backing vocals on Ernie Maresca's self-penned 1962 hit, "Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)". They have been described as having "few peers as practitioners of white doo-wop." Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge (known as The Brooklyn Bridge Band since 2010) is an American musical group, best known for their million-selling rendition of "Worst That Could Happen" (1968), penned by Jimmy Webb ("Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"), a note-for-note cover of the version previously recorded by The 5th Dimension on the album The Magic Garden, which had not been released as a single. Johnny Maestro died at his home in Cape Coral, Florida of cancer, aged 70. His remains were cremated, and given to his wife, Grace. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

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May 7, 1940: World War II: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The German Invasion Of Denmark And Norway (Operation Weserubung [German: Unternehmen Weserubung, "Operation Weser Exercise]): The Norwegian Campaign: The Norway Debate (The Narvik Debate, The "Conduct Of The War" Debate): -- A momentous debate in the British House Of Commons begins and lasts for two days, leading to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his government with a broadly-based coalition government led by Winston Churchill, which governed Britain until the end of World War II in Europe. The debate began following an adjournment debate, which in the Westminster System of the parliamentary government in the UK means an adjournment motion to engage in a debate on a subject without considering a substantive motion, i.e. a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action. The debate was primarily about the progress of the Norwegian Campaign but it quickly brought to a head widespread dissatisfaction with the overall conduct of the war by the Conservative-dominated National Government, led by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In the debate, Chamberlain's government was criticised not only by the Opposition but also by respected members of his own party. The Opposition forced a vote, effectively a motion of no confidence, which the government won with a greatly reduced majority. Over a quarter of Conservative members voted with the Opposition or abstained, despite a three line whip (a strict instruction to attend and vote, breach of which would normally have serious consequences), and this made it clear that support for Chamberlain in his own party was crumbling. There were calls for national unity to be established by formation of an all-party coalition, but it was not possible for Chamberlain to reach agreement with the opposition Labour and Liberal parties who refused to serve under his leadership, though they would accept a different Conservative leader. On Friday, 10 May, the day that Nazi Germany invaded Belgium and the Netherlands, Chamberlain resigned and was succeeded as Prime Minister by Churchill. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/god-bless-you-mr-chamberlain-dvd-neville-chamberlain39s-li39.html

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May 7, 1942: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: South West Pacific Theater Of World War II: Operation Mo (Japanese: Mo Sakusen) (The Port Moresby Operation): The Battle Of The Coral Sea: -- United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shoho on her first combat operation, becoming the first Japanese aircraft carrier to be sunk during World War II. Shoho (Japanese: "Auspicious Phoenix" or "Happy Phoenix") was originally built as the submarine support ship Tsurugizaki in the late 1930s, Shoho was converted before the Pacific War into an aircraft carrier and renamed when the conversion was completed in early 1942. Shoho was spotted by aircraft from the American carrier Lexington at 10:40; at 11:10, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers from the American carriers Lexington and Yorktown began their attack on the Soho as the three Japanese fighters attacked them in their dive. None of the dive bombers hit Shoho, which was maneuvering to avoid their bombs; one Dauntless was shot down by the Zero after it had pulled out of its dive and several others were damaged. Soho launched three more Zeros immediately after this attack to reinforce its CAP (Combat Aiir Patrol). The second wave of Dauntlesses began their attack at 11:18 and they hit Shoho twice with 1,000-pound (450 kg) bombs. These penetrated the ship's flight deck and burst inside her hangars, setting the fuelled and armed aircraft there on fire. A minute later, Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers began dropping their torpedoes from both sides of the ship. They hit Shoho five times and the damage from the hits knocked out her steering and power. In addition, the hits flooded both engine and boiler rooms. The carrier Yorktown's aircraft trailed those from Lexington, and the former's Dauntlesses began their attacks at 11:25, hitting Shoho with another eleven 1,000-pound bombs by Japanese accounts and the carrier came to a complete stop. Yorktown's Devastators trailed the rest of her aircraft and attacked at 11:29. They claimed ten hits, although Japanese accounts acknowledge only two. As the Devastators were exiting the area, they were attacked by the CAP, but the Wildcats protecting the torpedo bombers shot down two A5Ms and an A6M Zero. Total American losses to all causes were three Dauntlesses. After his attack, Lieutenant Commander Robert E. Dixon, commander of Lexington's dive bombers, radioed his famous message to the American carriers: "Scratch one flat top!" The Battle Of The Coral Sea, fought from May 4-8, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. The battle is historically significant as the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first time enemy naval fleets engaged each other in combat without sighting nor firing directly upon one another. In an attempt to strengthen their defensive position in the South Pacific, the Japanese decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby (in New Guinea) and Tulagi (in the southeastern Solomon Islands). The plan to accomplish this was called Operation Mo, and involved several major units of Japan's Combined Fleet. These included two fleet carriers and a light carrier to provide air cover for the invasion forces. It was under the overall command of Japanese Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue. The U.S. learned of the Japanese plan through signals intelligence, and sent two United States Navy carrier task forces and a joint Australian-U.S. cruiser force to oppose the offensive. These were under the overall command of U.S. Admiral Frank J. Fletcher. On May 3-4, 1942, Japanese forces successfully invaded and occupied Tulagi, although several of their supporting warships were sunk or damaged in surprise attacks by aircraft from the U.S. fleet carrier Yorktown. Now aware of the presence of U.S. carriers in the area, the Japanese fleet carriers advanced towards the Coral Sea with the intention of locating and destroying the Allied naval forces. On the evening of May 6, the direction chosen for air searches by the opposing commanders brought the two carrier forces to within 70 nmi (81 mi; 130 km) of each other, unbeknownst to both sides. Beginning on May 7, the carrier forces from the two sides engaged in airstrikes over two consecutive days. On the first day, both forces mistakenly believed they were attacking their opponent's fleet carriers, but were actually attacking other units, with the U.S. sinking the Japanese light carrier Shoho while the Japanese sank a U.S. destroyer and heavily damaged a fleet oiler (which was later scuttled). The next day, May 8, the fleet carriers found and engaged each other, with the Japanese fleet carrier Shokaku heavily damaged, the U.S. fleet carrier Lexington critically damaged (and later scuttled), and Yorktown damaged. With both sides having suffered heavy losses in aircraft and carriers damaged or sunk, the two forces disengaged and retired from the battle area. Because of the loss of carrier air cover, Inoue recalled the Port Moresby invasion fleet, intending to try again later. Although a tactical victory for the Japanese in terms of ships sunk, the battle would prove to be a strategic victory for the Allies for several reasons. The battle marked the first time since the start of the war that a major Japanese advance had been checked by the Allies. More importantly, the Japanese fleet carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku - the former damaged and the latter with a depleted aircraft complement - were unable to participate in the Battle of Midway the following month, while Yorktown did participate, ensuring a rough parity in aircraft between the two adversaries and contributing significantly to the U.S. victory in that battle. The severe losses in carriers at Midway prevented the Japanese from reattempting to invade Port Moresby from the ocean and helped prompt their ill-fated land offensive over the Kokoda Track. Two months later, the Allies took advantage of Japan's resulting strategic vulnerability in the South Pacific and launched the Guadalcanal Campaign; this, along with the New Guinea Campaign, eventually broke Japanese defenses in the South Pacific and was a significant contributing factor to Japan's ultimate surrender in World War II. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/carriers-complete-14-part-tv-series-4-dvd-144.html

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May 7, 1945: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The German Instrument Of Surrender (The Capitulation Of The German State To The Conditions Provided By The Allies, The Fall Of Nazi Germany, The Fall Of The Third Reich, Victory In Europe): -- German Field Marshal Keitel and German General Jodl surrender all German armed forces unconditionally as they sign the second Instrument of Surrender to the Allies at Reims, France, between the three armed services of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) and the Allied Expeditionary Force together with the Supreme High Command of the Red Army, with further French and US representatives signing as witnesses, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day, May 8th, which is declared to be Victory In Europe Day among the Western Allies. The Reims signing ceremony had been attended by considerable numbers of reporters, all of whom were bound by a 36-hour embargo against reporting the capitulation. As it became clear that there would need to be a definitive second signing before the Act of Surrender could become operative, Eisenhower agreed that the news blackout should remain; however, the American journalist Edward Kennedy of the Associated Press news agency in Paris broke the embargo on 7 May, with the consequence that the German surrender was headline news in the western media on May 8. Realizing that it had become politically impossible to keep to the original timetable, it was eventually agreed that the Western Allies would celebrate "Victory in Europe Day" on 8 May, but that western leaders would not make their formal proclamations of Victory until that evening (when the Berlin signing ceremony should be imminent). The Soviet government made no public acknowledgement of the Reims signing, which they did not recognize; Soviet Union celebrated "Victory Day" on May 9, 1945 because this document was signed when time was May 9 in Soviet Union. Today, both May 8 and May 9 are considered the end of World War II in Europe to celebrate due to time zone difference, and May 9 is declared to be Victory Day among the sixteen republics of the former Soviet Union. Thirty minutes after the fall of "Festung Breslau" (Fortress Breslau) on May 6, General Alfred Jodl arrived in Reims and, following Doenitz's instructions, offered to surrender all forces fighting the Western Allies. This was exactly the same negotiating position that von Friedeburg had initially made to Montgomery, and like Montgomery the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, threatened to break off all negotiations unless the Germans agreed to a complete unconditional surrender to all the Allies on all fronts. Eisenhower explicitly told Jodl that he would order western lines closed to German soldiers, thus forcing them to surrender to the Soviets. Jodl sent a signal to Doenitz, who was in Flensburg, informing him of Eisenhower's declaration. Shortly after midnight, Doenitz, accepting the inevitable, sent a signal to Jodl authorizing the complete and total surrender of all German forces. At 02:41 on the morning of 7 May, at SHAEF headquarters in Reims, France, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed an unconditional surrender document for all German forces to the Allies, committing representatives of the German High Command to attend a definitive signing ceremony in Berlin. General Franz Boehme announced the unconditional surrender of German troops in Norway on 7 May. It included the phrase "All forces under German control to cease active operations at 2301 hours Central European Time on May 8, 1945.". The next day, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other German OKW representatives travelled to Berlin, and shortly before midnight signed an amended and definitive document of unconditional surrender, explicitly surrendering to all the Allied forces in the presence of Marshal Georgi Zhukov and representatives of SHAEF. The signing ceremony took place in a former German Army Engineering School in the Berlin district of Karlshorst; it now houses the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/crusade-in-europe-2-dual-layer-dvds-tv-series-eisenhowe2.html

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May 7, 1946: The Industrial Revolution: The Third Industrial Revolution (1947-Present) (The Information Age, The Computer Age, The Digital Age, The Digital Electronics Revolution, The Silicon Age, The New Media Age, The Media Age): The Electronics Industry: Foundings: Business Foundings: Sony: -- Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering) is founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita with around 20 employees. Renamed The Sony Corporation in 1958, it has since become The Sony Group Corporation, commonly referred to as Sony, a multinational conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Today, The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including electronics, imaging and sensing (Sony Semiconductor Solutions), film and television (Sony Pictures Entertainment), music (Sony Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment Japan), video games (Sony Interactive Entertainment), and others. Initially an electronics firm whose first product was an electric rice cooker, it gained early recognition for products such as the TR-55 transistor radio and the CV-2000 home video tape recorder, contributing significantly to Japan's post-war economic recovery. After Ibuka's retirement in the 1970s, Morita served as chairman until 1994, overseeing Sony's rise as a global brand recognized for innovation in consumer electronics. Landmark products included the Trinitron color television, the Walkman portable audio player, and the co-development of the compact disc. Expanding beyond electronics, Sony acquired CBS Records in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment in 1989, while also entering the home video game console market with the launch of the PlayStation in 1994. In Japan, the company further diversified by establishing a financial services division in 2001, that would be turned into a separate company in September 2025, with the group maintaining 20% of the shares. In 2021, the company was renamed Sony Group Corporation as it transitioned into a holding company structure, with its electronics business continuing under the name Sony Corporation. In 2020, Sony held a 55% share of the global image sensor market, making it the largest image sensor manufacturer, the second largest camera manufacturer, a semiconductor sales leader, and the world's third-largest television manufacturer by sales. Although Sony is not part of a traditional keiretsu, it has historical ties to the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, dating back to the 1950s when it relied exclusively on Mitsui Bank for financing. Sony is publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (a component of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX Core30 indices) and also maintains American depositary receipts on the New York Stock Exchange, where it has been listed since 1961. As of 2021, it ranked 88th on the Fortune Global 500 and 57th on the 2023 Forbes Global 2000 list. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-deming-of-america-dvd-engineer-w-edwards-deming.html

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May 7, 1953: #BOTD: #HBD! Ian McKay, English Sergeant of 4 Platoon, B Company, 3 Para, who during the The Falklands War died in a grenade attack on an Argentine bunker fighting during The Fall Of Stanley, which earned him a posthumous Victoria Cross (d. June 12, 1982) is #born Ian John McKay in Wortley, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. On the night of June 11, after several days of painstaking reconnaissance and logistic build-up, British forces launched a brigade-sized night attack against the heavily defended ring of high ground surrounding Stanley. Units of 3 Commando Brigade, supported by naval gunfire from several Royal Navy ships, simultaneously attacked in the Battle of Mount Harriet, Battle of Two Sisters, and Battle of Mount Longdon. Mount Harriet was taken at a cost of 2 British and 18 Argentine soldiers. At Two Sisters, the British faced both enemy resistance and friendly fire, but managed to capture their objectives. The toughest battle was at Mount Longdon. British forces were bogged down by assault rifle, mortar, machine gun, artillery fire, sniper fire, and ambushes. Despite this, the British continued their advance. During this battle, 13 were killed when HMS Glamorgan, straying too close to shore while returning from the gun line, was struck by an improvised trailer-based Exocet MM38 launcher taken from the destroyer ARA Segui by Argentine Navy technicians. After a night of fierce fighting, all objectives were secured. Both sides suffered heavy losses. The night of June 13 saw the start of the second phase of attacks, in which the momentum of the initial assault was maintained. 2 Para, with light armour support from The Blues and Royals, captured Wireless Ridge, with the loss of 3 British and 25 Argentine lives, and the 2nd battalion, Scots Guards captured Mount Tumbledown at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, which cost 10 British and 30 Argentine lives. With the last natural defence line at Mount Tumbledown breached, the Argentine town defences of Stanley began to falter. In the morning gloom, one company commander got lost and his junior officers became despondent. Private Santiago Carrizo of the 3rd Regiment described how a platoon commander ordered them to take up positions in the houses and "if a Kelper resists, shoot him", but the entire company did nothing of the kind. A ceasefire was declared on June 14, and the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, Brigade General Mario Menendez, conditionally surrendered to British Major General Jeremy Moore. The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlantico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It began on Friday, 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands (and, the following day, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) in an attempt to establish the sovereignty it had claimed over them. On 5 April, the British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force before making an amphibious assault on the islands. The conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982, returning the islands to British control. In total, 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel, and three Falkland Islanders died during the hostilities. The conflict was a major episode in the protracted confrontation over the territories' sovereignty. Argentina asserted (and maintains) that the islands are Argentine territory, and the Argentine government thus characterised its military action as the reclamation of its own territory. The British government regarded the action as an invasion of a territory that had been a Crown colony since 1841. Falkland Islanders, who have inhabited the islands since the early 19th century, are predominantly descendants of British settlers, and strongly favour British sovereignty. Neither state officially declared war, although both governments declared the Islands a war zone. Hostilities were almost exclusively limited to the territories under dispute and the area of the South Atlantic where they lie. The conflict has had a strong effect in both countries and has been the subject of various books, articles, films, and songs. Patriotic sentiment ran high in Argentina, but the outcome prompted large protests against the ruling military government, hastening its downfall. In the United Kingdom, the Conservative government, bolstered by the successful outcome, was re-elected with an increased majority the following year. The cultural and political effect of the conflict has been less in the UK than in Argentina, where it remains a common topic for discussion. Diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Argentina were restored in 1989 following a meeting in Madrid, at which the two governments issued a joint statement. No change in either country's position regarding the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands was made explicit. In 1994, Argentina's claim to the territories was added to its constitution. 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Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 1954: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Indochina Wars: The First Indochina War (1946-1954) (The Indochina War, The Anti-French Resistance War, The French-Indochina War): The Battle Of Dien Bien Phu (French: Bataille De Dien Bien Phu, Vietnamese: Chien Dich Dien Bien Phu): The Fall Of Dien Bien Phu: -- The French Indochina War ends with the fall of Dien Bien Phu, marking Vietnam's victory over French colonial forces which were then forced to withdraw from northern Vietnam. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War, began on March 13, 1954, when Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps. It was, from the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the Vietnamese and destroy them with superior firepower. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations underway at Geneva among several nations over the future of Indochina. As a result of blunders in French decision-making, the French began an operation to insert, then support, the soldiers at Dien Bien Phu, deep in the hills of northwestern Vietnam. Its purpose was to cut off Viet Minh supply lines into the neighboring Kingdom of Laos, a French ally, and tactically draw the Viet Minh into a major confrontation in order to cripple them. The plan was to resupply the French position by air, and was based on the belief that the Viet Minh had no anti-aircraft capability. The Viet Minh, however, under General Vo Nguyen Giap, surrounded and besieged the French. The Viet Minh brought in vast amounts of heavy artillery (including antiaircraft guns). They moved these weapons through difficult terrain up the rear slopes of the mountains surrounding the French positions, dug tunnels through the mountain, and placed the artillery pieces overlooking the French encampment. This positioning of the artillery made it nearly impervious to French counter-battery fire. The Viet Minh opened fire with a massive artillery bombardment in March. After several days the French artillery commander, Charles Piroth, unable to respond with any effective counterbattery fire, committed suicide. The Viet Minh occupied the highlands around Dien Bien Phu and bombarded the French positions. Tenacious fighting on the ground ensued, reminiscent of the trench warfare of World War I. The French repeatedly repulsed Viet Minh assaults on their positions. Supplies and reinforcements were delivered by air, though as the key French positions were overrun, the French perimeter contracted and the air resupply on which the French had placed their hopes became impossible. As the Viet Minh antiaircraft fire took its toll, fewer and fewer of those supplies reached the French. The garrison was overrun in May after a two-month siege, and most of the French forces surrendered. A few of them escaped to Laos. The French government in Paris then resigned, and the new Prime Minister, the left-of-centre Pierre Mendes France, supported French withdrawal from Indochina. The war ended shortly after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and the signing of the 1954 Geneva Accords. France agreed to withdraw its forces from all its colonies in French Indochina, while stipulating that Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, with control of the north given to the Viet Minh as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and the south becoming the State of Vietnam, nominally under Emperor Bao Dai, preventing Ho Chi Minh from gaining control of the entire country. The refusal of Ngo Dinh Diem (the US-supported President of the first Republic of Vietnam (RVN) to allow elections in 1956, as had been stipulated by the Geneva Conference, eventually led to the Vietnam War. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-war-years-the-battle-of-dien-bien-phu-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, May 7, 2026

May 7, 2007: Archaelogy (Archeology): Great Discoveries Of Archaeology: The Roman Empire: The Herodian Kingdom: The Herodium: The Tomb Of Herod The Great: -- Israeli archaeologists, led by The Hebrew University's archaeologist Professor Ehud Netzer, discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem. Herod I, also known as Herod the Great, Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian kingdom of Judea, known for his colossal building projects, among which ere the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and the expansion of its base the Western Wall being part of it, described in the Christian Bible as the coordinator of the Massacre Of The Innocents, in which of all male children who were two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem were killed as a result of the Three Magi's visit with Herod to seek guidance as to where the new king of the Jews had been born (c. 72 - 4 or 1 BCE) was born in Idumea, south of Judea, the second son of Antipater the Idumaean, a high-ranking official under ethnarch Hyrcanus II, and Cypros, a Nabatean Arab princess from Petra, in present-day Jordan. Many of the crucial details of his life are recorded in the works of the 1st century CE Roman-Jewish historian Josephus. Despite Herod's successes, including forging a new aristocracy, he has been criticized by various historians. Some consider his reign to have been tyrannical. Most scholars find no support for the historicity of Matthew's account of the Massacre Of The Innocents attributede to Herod The Great. Most other New Testament references to 'Herod' are either to his son Herod Antipas (such as the events leading to the executions of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth in Matthew 14), or his grandson Herod Agrippa (in Acts 12). Herod died in Jericho, after an unidentified but excruciatingly painful, putrefying illness, known to posterity as "Herod's Evil". Josephus states that the pain of his illness led Herod to attempt suicide by stabbing, and that the attempt was thwarted by his cousin. In some much later narratives and depictions, the attempt succeeds; for example, in the 12th-century Eadwine Psalter. Other medieval dramatizations, such as the Ordo Rachelis, follow Josephus' account. Josephus stated that Herod was so concerned that no one would mourn his death that he commanded a large group of distinguished men to come to Jericho, and he gave an order that they should be killed at the time of his death so that the displays of grief that he craved would take place; his brother-in-law Alexas and his sister Salome did not carry out this wish. The location of Herod's tomb is documented by Josephus, who writes, "And the body was carried two hundred furlongs, to Herodium, where he had given order to be buried." Professor Ehud Netzer, an archaeologist from the Hebrew University, read the writings of Josephus and focused his search on the vicinity of the pool and its surroundings. On May 7. 2007, an Israeli team of archaeologists of Hebrew University, led by Netzer, announced they had discovered the tomb. The site is located at the exact location given by Josephus, atop tunnels and water pools, at a flattened desert site, halfway up the hill to Herodium, 12 km (7.5 mi) south of Jerusalem. The tomb contained a broken sarcophagus but no remains of a body. Upon Herod's death, the Romans divided his kingdom among three of his sons and his sister: his son Herod Antipas received the tetrarchy of Galilee and Peraea. Other family members of Herod the Great include Herod's son Herod Archelaus, who became ethnarch of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea; Herod's son Philip who became tetrarch of territories north and east of the Jordan River; and Herod's sister Salome I, who was given a toparchy including the cities of Jabneh, Ashdod, and Fasayil (Phasaelis). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/teinjearkofc.html

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Today, May 7, 2026
May 7: National Avery Day: -- A day that bestows honor and regard on all the people around the world who identify with the name Avery. The name is an English and French name designated for boys and girls, which perhaps explains its popularity in America, even though it originates from Europe. The name is believed to date back to Anglo-Saxon times and stems from the words 'aelf' and 'ric,' meaning 'elf' and 'ruler' - basically 'ruler of elves.' Closely related to folklore, elves are tiny playful fairy-like, diminutive shape-shifters believed to live in forest kingdoms and other magical settings. National Avery Day is a name day to celebrate the large group of people around the world who identify with and bear this appealing name. Avery stems from 'aelf' and 'ric', meaning 'elf' and 'ruler' respectively. Its derivative words combine as 'ruler of elves.' Some say it means 'wise.' The latter might stem from the wisdom attributed to elves - mythical beings considered to have powerful hearing and magical abilities. From the 1800s through to the last half of the 1900s, Avery was a popular boy's name. It was only used for girls at the beginning of the 21st century. One surprising fact is that as it began to be given to girls, its currency as a boy's name fell drastically. Nonetheless, it is still considered a gender-neutral name. The U.S. Social Security Administration revealed that Avery was the 19th most popular girls' name in 2020 and the 212th for boys. The highest stat for the name was in 2013 when it ranked as the 12th most popular girl's name. Interestingly, it has ranked in the Top 20 since 2011. An interesting fact is that in 1989, it was ranked 971 in the most popular girls' name - an astronomical leap from its ranking barely 10 years earlier. Among the notable figures who bear the name are the N.B.A. basketball player Avery Bradley; the U.S. basketball coach Avery Johnson; the American actor Avery Brooks, who starred as Captain Benjamin Sisko in the movie "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," and the American multi-talented star, Annabella Avery Thorne, and Troian Avery Bellisario. Ready to celebrate National Avery Day? Take a look at these interesting facts about the origin of the unique name. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-watergate-comedy-hour-burns-and-schreiber-comedy-lp-mp3-c3.html

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Today, May 7, 2026
May 7: National Paste-Up Day: -- Celebrated by art and print enthusiasts all around the country. This day is dedicated to the century-old technique for the designing and printing of newspapers and magazines, which remained the main approach until the development of computer software in the 1990s. Before the existence of fancy editing software, designers had to figure out many different ways to create the layout for publication pages, photographs, and advertisements. To do so, artists used the paste-up method, which can be considered equivalent to a sort of collage. Since there were no computers to facilitate the process, the paste-up artist would carefully cut and arrange different sections of typographic elements on a page to create a readable and aesthetically pleasing design. The paste-up artist would receive the elements in several strips of paper and apply them to a board using wax adhesive. If any photos needed to be attached they went through a thorough halftoning, and colors were inverted for the negative of the entire page to be created. This negative would work as a sort of stamp on the actual pages of the newspaper when turned into a printing plate. To create the guidelines and margins of the negative, paste-up artists painted them using cyan-colored ink, which would not be seen by the film used to make the printing plates. Should a newspaper already have a line of publishing, the artist wouldn't have to go through the work of painting those lines on, as the boards would already be available. Since the 1990s, publishers have used computer software to develop layouts and print them out on special printers. https://store.earthstation1.com/newspaper-publishing-history-dvd.html

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Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 1873: #DOTD: #RIP: John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant, one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism and social liberalism who contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy, dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century" by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (b. May 20, 1806) #dies aged 66 in Avignon, Vaucluse, France of a form of cellulitis, erysipelas, a relatively common bacterial infection of the superficial layer of the skin, extending to the superficial lymphatic vessels within the skin, and characterized by a raised, well-defined, tender, bright-red rash, typically on the face or legs, but which can occur anywhere on the skin; it can be seen in a number of photographs portraits of him prominently on his face. His body was buried alongside his wife's in Avignon. He bequeathed to his step-daughter, Miss Helen Taylor, his estate and designated her as his literary executor. John Stuart Mill was born at 13 Rodney Street in Pentonville, then on the edge of the capital and now in central London, the eldest son of Harriet Barrow and the Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist James Mill. John Stuart Mill he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control. He advocated political and social reforms such as proportional representation, the emancipation of women, and the development of labour organisations and farm cooperatives. The Columbia Encyclopedia describes Mill as occasionally coming "close to socialism, a theory repugnant to his predecessors." He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the investigation of scientific methodology, though his knowledge of the topic was based on the writings of others, notably William Whewell, John Herschel, and Auguste Comte, and research carried out for Mill by Alexander Bain. A member of the Liberal Party and author of the early feminist work The Subjection of Women, Mill was also the second Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage after Henry Hunt in 1832. John Stuart Mill has been known through the years for his pithy quotes: "The mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service."; "The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."; "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse."; "Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions."; "Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.'; and "A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life." https://store.earthstation1.com/story-of-civilization-will-amp-ariel-durant-mp3-dvd-11-audiobo311.html

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Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 2021: #DOTD: Yegor Ligachyov, Russian engineer and Soviet politician who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) (b. November 29, 1920) #dies at the age of 100 in Moscow (presumably from natural causes). Yegor Kuzmich Ligachyov (also transliterated as Ligachev) was born in Dubinkino, Kainsky district, in the Tomsk Governorate (1804 to 1925) located in Siberia. Originally a protege of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ligachyov became a challenger to his leadership. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ligachyov became a notable communist politician in the Russian Federation. Ligachyov was elected three times to the Russian State Duma as a member for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and became the Duma's oldest member. Ligachyov remained an active politician in the Communist Party and was a member of its Central Committee since co-founding the party in 1993. However, he lost his seat in the Duma in 2003, when he polled 23.5 percent of the vote against United Russia candidate Vladimir Zhidkikh' 53 percent. Ligachyov released his memoirs, Inside Gorbachev' Kremlin, in 1996. The memoirs reveal Gorbachev' role in the USSR' dissolution, from a personal, up-close perspective. Serge Schmemann of The New York Times wrote that the author was driven "to seek explanations for what went wrong, to understand his own role" and while the reviewer wished for more intrigue (in the form of detailed accounts of events other than the dissolution of the USSR), he believed the book was an interesting and detailed account of that period from the perspective of an "honest Bolshevik". Yegor Ligachyov died at the age of 100 in Moscow. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-second-russian-revolution-6-dvd-set-complete-tv-serie6.html

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Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP: Peter Rodino, American captain and Democratic politician who represented parts of Newark, New Jersey and surrounding Essex and Hudson counties for twenty terms from 1949 to 1989, best known as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he oversaw the impeachment process against Richard Nixon that eventually led to the president's resignation (b. June 7, 1909) #dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 95 at his home in West Orange, New Jersey. He lay in state at Seton Hall Law Chapel and the funeral mass was celebrated at St. Lucy's Church in Newark. Burial took place at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover, New Jersey. He was born Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. in the North Ward of Newark, New Jersey. He was the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey until passed by Chris Smith in 2021. https://store.earthstation1.com/watergate-the-secret-story-with-mike-wallace-dvd-mp4-usb-flash-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Stars And Stripes: Hollywood And World War II DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, film producer and decorated naval officer of World War II, best known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939) and The Corsican Brothers (b. December 9, 1909) #dies in the morning at the age of 90 of a heart attack in New York City. He is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, in the same tomb as his father. He was born Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. in New York City, the only child of actor Douglas Fairbanks and his first wife, Anna Beth Sully, the daughter of wealthy industrialist Daniel J. Sully. His paternal grandfather was Jewish. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr, KBE, DSC's father was one of cinema's first icons, noted for such swashbuckling adventure films as The Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood and The Thief of Bagdad. Fairbanks Jr. had small roles in his father's films American Aristocracy (1916) and The Three Musketeers (1921). Largely on the basis of his father's name, in May 1923 Fairbanks Jr. was given a contract with Paramount Pictures at age 13, at 1K USD a week for three years. He was signed by Paramount Pictures' Jesse L. Lasky who said the junior Fairbanks "is the typical American boy at his best" and said it was likely he would be featured in a film about Tom Sawyer. "I do not think it is the right thing for the boy to do", said his father. "I want to see him continue his education. He is only 13 years old." The young actor arrived in Hollywood in June 1923 and was mobbed. Tom Sawyer was not made. Instead Fairbanks Jr. appeared in Stephen Steps Out. The film was not a hit. Paramount and he parted ways by mutual consent and Doug went to Paris to resume his studies. A year later he returned to the studio, hired at what Fairbanks called "starvation wages" also having him work as a camera assistant. "I was anxious to build my career as an actor slowly and painstakingly", he said. "I don't want to be a young blond leading man with an aquiline nose and shiny white teeth." Although celebrated as an actor, once married to Joan Crawford., Fairbanks was commissioned as a reserve officer in the United States Navy when the United States entered World War II and was assigned to Lord Mountbatten's Commando staff in the United Kingdom. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him special envoy to South America. Fairbanks served on the cruiser USS Wichita during the disastrous Convoy PQ 17 operation. Having witnessed (and participated in) British training and cross-Channel harassment operations emphasizing the military art of deception, Fairbanks attained a depth of understanding and appreciation of military deception then unheard of in the United States Navy. Lieutenant Fairbanks was subsequently transferred to Virginia Beach where he came under the command of Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, who was preparing U.S. naval forces for the invasion of North Africa. Fairbanks convinced Hewitt of the advantages of a military deception unit, then repeated the proposal at Hewitt's behest to Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations. King thereupon issued a secret letter on March 5, 1943 charging the Vice Chief of Naval Operations with the recruitment of 180 officers and 300 enlisted men for the Beach Jumper program. The Beach Jumpers' mission would simulate amphibious landings with a very limited force. Operating dozens of kilometers from the actual landing beaches and utilizing their deception equipment, the Beach Jumpers would lure the enemy into believing that theirs was the principal landing. United States Navy Beach Jumpers saw their initial action in Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. For the remainder of the war, the Beach Jumpers conducted their hazardous, shallow-water operations throughout the Mediterranean. For his planning the diversion-deception operations and his part in the amphibious assault on Southern France, Lieutenant Commander Fairbanks was awarded the United States Navy's Legion of Merit with bronze V (for valor), the Italian War Cross for Military Valor, the French Legion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre with Palm, and the British Distinguished Service Cross. Fairbanks was also awarded the Silver Star for valor displayed while serving on PT boats and in 1942 made an Officer the National Order of the Southern Cross, conferred by the Brazilian government. Among his other exploits was the sinking of the corvette UJ-6083 (formerly the Regia Marina Gabbiano-class Capriolo) while in command of a mixed division of American PT boats and British Insect-class gunboats plus assorted other small craft. Fairbanks commanded from HMS Aphis. Fairbanks stayed in the US Naval Reserve after the war and ultimately retired as a captain in 1954. https://store.earthstation1.com/stars-and-stripes-hollywood-and-world-war-ii-dvd.html

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Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 1943: #DOTD: #RIP: Wade Boteler, American actor, film director, soldier and screenwriter, who appeared in more than 430 films between 1919 and 1943, notably as Michael Axford, a reporter for the Daily Sentinel, in both Green Hornet movie serials (b. October 3, 1888) #dies of a heart attack at the age of 55 in Hollywood, California. His remains were cremated; the location of his ashes are unknown. Wade Boteler was born in Santa Ana, California. Boteler graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After he graduated, he stayed there as a director until he joined the Army in World War I. For three years in the mid-1920s, he worked for Douglas MacLean's film company as both actor and writer. On Broadway, Boteler appeared in the play The Silent Voice (1914). https://store.earthstation1.com/7-disc-green-hornet-dvd-and-mp3-movie-and-radio-discount-s73.html

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Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 1996: #DOTD: #RIP: Don McNeill, American radio personality best known as the creator and host of The Breakfast Club, which ran for 35 years (1933-1968), and its successor television shows, Don McNeill's TV Club (1950-1951) and The Breakfast Club television simulcast (1954-1955) (b. December 23, 1907) #dies at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, aged 88. He is buried at All Saints Catholic Cemetery And Mausoleum in Des Plaines, Illinois. Don McNeill was born in Galena, Illinois, son of Harry T. McNeill and Luella R. Weinberger; the family soon moved to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where McNeill graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee. McNeill is credited as the first performer to make morning talk and variety a viable format in radio; many local shows even now refer to themselves as The Breakfast Club. He was a first cousin of United States Secretary Of Defense Caspar Weinberger as McNeill's mother was the elder sister of Weinberger's father. McNeill began his radio career in Milwaukee in 1928, first as a script editor and announcer at The Milwaukee Sentinel's WISN, and later working for crosstown competitor WTMJ, owned by Sentinel rival The Milwaukee Journal. McNeill applied for a job at NBC and was sent to Chicago to audition. He was assigned to host an unsponsored early morning variety show called The Pepper Pot, which had an 8 AM time slot on the NBC Blue Network (later to become ABC radio). McNeill re-organized the hour show as The Breakfast Club, dividing it into four segments he called "the four calls to breakfast." The show premiered on June 23, 1933, with informal talk and jokes based on topical events, and often included audience interviews. In its final form, the show featured piano music and vocal groups and soloists, with recurring comedy performers. McNeil gained a sponsor, Swift and Company. Archie Bleyer, who led the band for Arthur Godfrey's daily Arthur Godfrey Time CBS radio show had founded Cadence Records in 1953. That year, Bleyer traveled to Chicago to record some patriotic spoken word recordings by McNeill. Although Breakfast Club ratings were below Godfrey's, the host took umbrage that Bleyer had taken time off from his show to record McNeill, who Godfrey considered a competitor. In October 1953 at roughly the same time Godfrey fired singer Julius LaRosa on the air, Godfrey privately dismissed Bleyer for recording McNeill. McNeill attempted to transfer the show to television as Don McNeill's TV Club (1950-1951). The Breakfast Club was simulcast on television in 1954-1955. McNeill appeared occasionally on game shows, and in 1963 hosted a short-lived game show Take Two, built around photo comparisons. McNeill's radio series finally ended in 1968, when McNeill retired from entertainment and public life. After his radio career ended, McNeill taught communication arts classes at Marquette and Notre Dame from 1970-72, represented the Deltona Corporation, Florida land developers, from 1970-80, and served as a director of the Sears Foundation and on the advisory boards of Notre Dame, Marquette and Loyola University of Chicago. Don McNeill's Breakfast Club was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. McNeill died seven years later in 1996, aged 88. https://store.earthstation1.com/don-mcneill-and-the-breakfast-club-dvd-classic-tv-shows.html

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Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 2013: #DOTD: #RIP: Ray Harryhausen, American animator and special effects creator who created a form of stop motion model animation known as "Dynamation" (b. June 29, 1920) #dies in London, England of unspecified (presumed natural) causes aged 92. He is buried at St Peters Churchyard in Brooke, Norfolk, England. He was born Raymond Frederick Harryhausen in Los Angeles, California. His works include the animation for Mighty Joe Young (1949) with his mentor Willis H. O'Brien (for which the latter won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects); his first color film, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); and Jason and the Argonauts (1963), which featured a sword fight with seven skeleton warriors. His last film was Clash of the Titans (1981), after which he retired. In 1960, Harryhausen moved to the United Kingdom and became a dual American-British citizen. He lived in London until his death in 2013. During his life, his innovative style of special effects in films inspired numerous filmmakers. In November 2016 the BFI compiled a list of those present-day filmmakers who claim to have been inspired by Harryhausen, including Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Joe Dante, Tim Burton, Nick Park, James Cameron, and Guillermo del Toro. Others influenced by him include George Lucas, John Lasseter, John Landis, Henry Selick, J. J. Abrams, and Wes Anderson. https://store.earthstation1.com/didomp4vido2.html

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Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 1963: #DOTD: #RIP: Max Miller, English actor, singer, songwriter, music hall performer and comedian who was widely regarded as the greatest stand-up of his generation, also known as The Cheeky Chappie (b. November 21, 1894) #dies in his home at 25 Burlington Street, Brighton, East Sussex, England, aged 68. In 1958 Miller suffered a heart attack. After recovery he needed to take life easier. His last West End appearance took place at the Palace Theatre in April 1959 and the last ever in variety in Folkestone in December 1960. He continued to make records, his last in January 1963 with Lonnie Donegan. Max Miller was cremated in the Downs Crematorium, Brighton. A memorial tablet is mounted on a wall in the Garden of Remembrance. With dwindling work in variety, brought about by the increasing popularity of television, he commented, "When I'm dead and gone, the game's finished." Max Miller was born Thomas Henry Sargent in Hereford Street, Kemptown, Brighton, Sussex, the second of the six children of James Sargent, a labourer and Alice (nee West), a flower seller. He came from humble beginnings. He left school at the age of 12. At the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered for the army. During his time in the forces, he started a troop concert party. On leaving the army, he took up work as a light comedian, dancer, and singer. He toured extensively appearing in variety, revues and by the early 1930s reached the top of the bill in the large music halls including the London Palladium. He recorded many songs, some which he wrote. He appeared frequently on radio, but television did not really suit his style. He appeared and starred in 14 feature films. He was known for his flamboyant suits, his wicked charm, and his risque jokes which often got him into trouble with the censors. He made his last recording in January 1963 and died four months later. https://store.earthstation1.com/alternative-sgt-pepper39s-lonely-hearts-club-band-mp3-cd-download-393.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Joan Of Arc Biography + You Are There Bonus MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 1429: The Crisis Of The Late Middle Ages: The Anglo-French Wars: The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans [1337-1453]): The Battle Of Agincourt: The Siege Of Orleans: -- Joan Of Arc ends the Siege Of Orleans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War. On April 29, 1429, Joan Of Arc arrived to relieve the Siege Of Orleans. The Siege Of Orleans (October 12, 1428 - May 8, 1429) was the watershed of the Hundred Years' War between France and England. It was the French royal army's first major military victory to follow the crushing defeat at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, and also the first while Joan Of Arc was with the army. At a time when the military situation for the French seemed increasingly bleak, this important victory proved a decisive turning point in the war. The siege took place at the pinnacle of English power during the later stages of the war. The city held strategic and symbolic significance to both sides of the conflict. The consensus among contemporaries was that the English regent, John of Lancaster, would have succeeded in realizing Henry V's dream of conquering all of France if Orleans fell. For half a year the English and their French allies appeared to be winning but the siege collapsed nine days after Joan's arrival. https://store.earthstation1.com/joan-of-arc-documentary-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Offshore Pirate Radio 1960s-1980s MP3s DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, May 7, 2026
May 7, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! Thelma Houston, African American R & B and disco singer and actress, is #born Thelma Jackson in Leland, Mississippi. Beginning her recording career in the late 1960s, Houston scored a number-one hit record in 1977 with her recording of "Don't Leave Me This Way", which won the Grammy for Best Female R & B Vocal Performance. https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html