Daily Calendar for Thursday, May 7, 2026

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First inaugural ball in U.S. – 1789
Haworth Parsonage was the recipient of the first copies of the Brontë sisters’ Poems – 1846
American Medical Association founded – 1847
The first Naval Academy Band arrived at the United States Naval Academy – 1853
Wagon-mounted fire escape ladder patented – 1878
The R.M.S. Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland and sank with a loss of 1,198 lives, including 139 Americans, bringing the U.S. and Germany to the brink of war (WW I) – 1915
First exhibit by “Group of Seven” artists – 1920
The world’s first projection planetarium installed, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany – 1925
9.4-inch-long, 14-pound pearl reportedly collected on this day from giant clam at Palawan Island, Philippines – 1934
Glenn Miller recorded “Chattanooga Choo Choo” – 1941
President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam War – 1975
Bigfoot reported seen in Hollis, NH – 1977
Canadian-bred Sunny’s Halo won the Kentucky Derby – 1983
27th U.S. Amendment ratified – 1992
Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns was named MVP for the 2005-06 basketball season. He became the 9th player in NBA history to receive the honor in back-to-back seasons – 2006
282 people carried water jugs on their heads (in Toronto), setting a world record – 2011

A tornado in Natchez, Mississippi, was the most deadly and destructive in early U.S. history, killing 317 people. – 1840
54 degrees F, Sacramento, California – 1905
Sacramento, California, had a temperature of 105 degrees F – 1987
Rochester, New York, received ten inches of snow – 1989