Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 7

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 * 1697 – The 13th-century castle of Tre Kronor in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace were presented within the year.
 * 1763 – Pontiac, a Native American chief of the Odawa tribe, led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.
 * 1895 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.
 * 1931 – New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered.
 * 1940 – A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).
 * 1954 – A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
 * 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.
 * 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
 * 2009 – Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
 * 2010 – A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
 * Born/died: | Ibn Hisham |d|833| Ladislaus III of Hungary |d|1205| Bajo Pivljanin |d|1685| David Hume |b|1711| William Bainbridge |b|1774| Jabez Bowen |d|1815| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |b|1840| Tom Norman |b|1860| Philip Baxter |b|1905| Albert Ball |d|1917| Rendra Karno |b|1920| Deborah Butterfield |b|1949| Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome |b|1961