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Events on May 7

• 1189 A settlement on the western bank of the Alster, which had previously been founded by Count Adolf III. von Schauenburg and Holstein, is granted extensive commercial and municipal privileges through an alleged imperial charter of Frederick Barbarossa. This diploma is regarded as the founding document of Hamburg.
• 1747 In Potsdam, Johann Sebastian Bach meets King Frederick II of Prussia. Based on a flute theme set by the king, Bach improvises a polyphonic fugue and later develops the theme into “The Musical Offering”.
• 1866 Ferdinand Cohen-Blind carries out an assassination attempt on Otto von Bismarck on the street Unter den Linden in Berlin in order to avert the looming fratricidal war against Austria. Bismarck is barely injured and subsequently disarms the attacker himself. During the night, while in police custody, the attacker commits suicide.
• 1907 Carl Hagenbeck opens a zoo in Hamburg in which wild animals are kept in open-air enclosures for the first time. The abandonment of cages at Hagenbeck Zoo becomes a model for other zoos.
• 1925 With a grand celebration, the Deutsches Museum is opened on the Coal Island in Munich, which consequently receives the name Museum Island. Gerhart Hauptmann specially wrote the play Festaktus zur Eröffnung des Deutschen Museums in München for the occasion.
• 1945 At the operational headquarters of the SHAEF in Reims, Colonel General Jodl, Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command, signs the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht, effective 8 May, 23:01 Central European Time.
• 1946 In Tokyo, Morita Akio and Ibuka Masaru found the communications industry company Tōkyō Tsūshin Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha, which becomes known worldwide under the name Sony from 1958 onward.
• 1953 In the GDR, the Soviet ruler Josef Stalin, who had died in March, is honored with the naming of Stalinstadt. Following de-Stalinization, the town is given the name Eisenhüttenstadt in 1961.
• 1989 Local elections are held in the GDR. Civil rights activists are able to prove electoral fraud, and the protest against the manipulated elections is an important trigger for the events in the autumn of 1989.
• 1994 The Berlin/Bonn Act enters into force. Among other things, it governs the relocation of parliament and parts of the government from Bonn to Berlin, as well as the relocation of federal authorities and other federal institutions to the federal city of Bonn.
• 1998 Daimler-Benz AG and Chrysler Corporation, represented by Jürgen Schrempp and Robert Eaton, announce their merger to form DaimlerChrysler.
• 2010 In front of a record crowd of 77,803 spectators, the German national ice hockey team defeats the USA 2:1 after overtime in the opening game of the 74th Men's Ice Hockey World Championship at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen.

Born on May 7

• 1855 Oskar von Miller, German engineer, founder of the Deutsches Museum
• 1861 Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet, painter and social reformer, Nobel laureate in literature
• 1892 Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav partisan leader and politician
• 1901 Gary Cooper, American actor
• 1930 Horst Bienek, German writer
• 1942 Gerhard Polt, German cabaret artist
• 1950 Bernd Tauber, German actor
• 1970 Christoph Marzi, German writer
• 1980 Susanna Karawanskij, German politician
• 1999 Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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