It happenned on a… 7 May

Find out about the main events that have taken place on this day over the years.

Downtown at Night, Denver, Colorado, USA When: 24 Sep 2009 Credit: Ken Ross/VWPics/Cover Images **Only available for publication in UK, USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland**

2019

Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin “magic mushrooms”.

2018

Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years.

2017

Emmanuel Macron wins France’s presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen.

1998

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

1992

Three employees at a McDonald’s Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first “fast-food murder” in Canada.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission.

1975

U.S. President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam War.

1966

Mamas & Papas “Monday Monday” hits #1.

1912

Film and television production and distribution studio Paramount Pictures is founded.

1867

Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England.

1824

Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna.