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HISTORY QUIZ OF THE DAY (May-07)

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May 7, 2008 :: On this day, Dmitry was sworn in as Russia's president.

May 7, 2000 :: On this day, Vladimir was inaugurated President of Russia.

May 7, 1998 :: :: On this day, bought Chrysler for $40 billion USD and formed Daimler-Chrysler the in history.

May 7, 1960 :: On this day, the Soviet leader Nikita announced that his nation had the U-2 spy plane of USA and was holding Gary Powers.

May 7, 1939 :: SIDNEY ALTMAN :: Born this day, Sidney Altman is a Nobel Laureate molecular biologist.

May 7, 1939 :: RUUD LUBBERS :: Born this day, Ruud Lubbers is a Former Prime Minister of the .

May 7, 1927 :: Born this day, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a German born novelist; A Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

May 7, 1912 :: Born this day, Pannalal Patel was a Gujarati author of India (d. 1989).

May 7, 1909 :: Born this day, Edwin Herbert Land was an American inventor of the and one step process for developing and printing photographs.

May 7, 1895 :: On this day, this Russian physicist, who first demonstrated the practical application of electromagnetic (radio) waves and built his first radio receiver, presented the first lightning detector to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society. Since then this day has been celebrated in the Russian Federation as " ".

May 7, 1892 :: Born this day, Josip Broz Tito is the Ex-President of Yugoslavia and one of the founding fathers of the non-aligned movement along with , Prime Minister of India and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt.

May 7, 1888 :: On this day, George Eastman introduced the first Kodak camera with the tag line 'You press the button, '.

May 7, 1880 :: Born this day, Pandurang Vaman kane was a great Indian Indologist, who was awarded for his contribution to Indology.

May 7, 1861 :: Born this day, Rabindranath Tagore was a great Baegali poet, short story writer, song composer, essayist, playwright and painter; the to win a Nobel Prize (he was awarded Nobel Prize in 1913 for literature); he was the first one to call Gandhiji the Mahatma.

May 7, 1847 :: Born this day, Archibald Primrose was the Prime Minister of the (d. 1929)

May 7, 1840 :: Born this day, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky was a Russian master composer of .

May 7, 1774 :: Born this day, Sir Francis Beaufort was a Admiral and inventor of the scale bearing his name.