THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2009

Today is Thursday, May 7, the 127th day of 2009. There are 238 days left in the year.

1824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna

1832 Greece becomes independent republic

1888 George Eastman patents ``Kodak box camera"

1913 British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote

1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution

1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR

1966 Mamas & Papas ``Monday Monday" hits No. 1

1975 President Ford declares an end to ``Vietnam Era"

1994 Edvard Munchs painting ``The Scream" recovered three months after stolen

1997 Galileo, fourth Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)