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TODAY - May 07, 2026

Thought of the Day

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Today's Birthday

Robert Browning
Robert Browning Poet, English(1812)

An English poet and playwright who found popular success with works such as The last Duchess.

 
Karl Mauch
Karl Mauch Explorer, German(1837)

A German explorer and geographer of Africa.

 
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Indian(1861)

An Indian poet and philosopher and novelist whose most notable work was Gitanjali for this he was the first Asian poet to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

 
Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper Actor, American(1901)

An American film actor and heart throb who won Oscars for Sergeant York and High noon.

 
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Composer, Russian(1840)

A Russian composer, who is widely known for his romantic and colourful music

This day in History

1847

The American Medical Association, a federation of state and territorial medical associations, is founded in Philadelphia.

1915

The British ship Lusitania is torpedoed by a German submarine off the Ireland coast; 1,198 people are killed, increasing sentiment in the United States to join World War I.

1945

German Nazi forces surrender unconditionally to U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's army in Reims, France; the European phase of World War II officially ends the next day.

1960

Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union .

1994

The masterpiece "The Scream," by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, is recovered undamaged nearly three months after it was stolen.

2010

Conservative party leader David Cameron forms the first coalition government in UK.

Man who made the difference

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A Russian composer, who is widely known for his romantic and colourful musice was born on 7th may, 1840 in Votkinsk. From the Saint Petersburg, he was educated. He served as a clerk in 1859, in the Ministry of Justice. In 1866, he composed Winter Daydreams his Symphony No. 1 little Russian was his 2nd Symphony. In 1869, Romeo and Juliet a failure performance was given by him. But in 1880, he presented his one of the most popular of all Tchaikovsky's orchestral works. He was nominated for GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theater. He died on November 6, 1893, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal