Historical timeline for May 7

The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

Tanur boat disaster: At least 22 people are killed when a boat carrying tourists capsizes in Tanur, Malappuram, Kerala, India.

American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamist militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.

A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.

Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.

In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.

Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

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

Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.

Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.

Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.

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.

A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.

Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.

Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.

Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).

The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.