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)