Historical Events  -  May 7.

1849: John Elliott Drinkwater Bethune started Calcutta Female School.

1946: Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) was founded.

1955: Air India launched the Mumbai-Tokyo flight.

1998: Mercedes-Benz acquires Chrysler for 40 billion, the largest industrial merger in history.

2000: Vladimir Putin became President of Russia.

Famous Birthdays – May 7.

1711: David Hume, a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist.

1861: Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian polymath- poet, writer, composer, philosopher, and painter.

1880: Pandurang Vaman Kane, an Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar.

1892: Joseph Tito, a revolutionary and the first president of Yugoslavia.

1912: Pannalal Patel, an Indian author.

1909: Edwin Herbert Land, the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.

Death Anniversary -May 7.

1924: Alluri Seeta Rama Raju, an Indian revolutionary.

1974: Basanti Devi, an Indian independence activist.

1994: Ustad Nasir Zahiruddin Dagar, Indian Dhrupad singer.

2001: Prem Dhawan, an Indian lyricist, music composer, choreographer, and actor.

2002: Durga Bhagwat, an Indian scholar, socialist, and writer.