MAY 7
1945:Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl, chief of staff of the German Army, signs an instrument of unconditional surrender at Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters in Reims, France, capitulating to the Allies to end World War II in Europe. The surrender goes into effect on the following day, referred to as Victory in Europe, or V-E, Day.
1915: The British ocean liner Lusitania is sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people. The incident, and particularly the deaths of 128 American passengers, turns domestic public opinion against Germany, despite the neutrality the United States had been maintaining in World War I.
1986: Canadian climber Patrick Morrow reaches the top of Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia, becoming the first person to scale each of the famed Seven Summits, a mountaineering challenge consisting of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.
1915: The British ocean liner Lusitania is sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people. The incident, and particularly the deaths of 128 American passengers, turns domestic public opinion against Germany, despite the neutrality the United States had been maintaining in World War I.
1986: Canadian climber Patrick Morrow reaches the top of Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia, becoming the first person to scale each of the famed Seven Summits, a mountaineering challenge consisting of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.
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