^B{^#!16!7 May^N! Feast day of St John of Beverley, St Letard, St Domitian of Maestricht, and Saints Serenicus and Serenus.
^B{1793^B} The second partition of Poland was effected, with Russia taking Lithuania and W Ukraine, and Prussia taking Danzig, Thorn, Posen, Gnesen, and Kalisch. ^B{1821^B} The Africa Company was dissolved because of heavy expenses incurred, and Sierra Leone, Gambia, and Gold Coast were taken over by the British government to form British West Africa. ^B{1832^B} Greece became an independent kingdom. ^B{1848^B} Polish rebels surrendered after Prussian troops put down an insurrection in Warsaw. ^B{1915 ^B}German forces sank the liner ^I{Lusitania^I} off the Irish coast, with the loss of 1,198 lives; the US was brought to the verge of war with Germany. ^B{1928^B} Women's suffrage in Britain was reduced from the age of 30 to 21. ^B{1954^B} Dien Bien Phu fell to Communist Vietnamese. ^B{1960^B} Leonid Brezhnev replaced Marshal Voroshilov as President of the USSR.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian, ^B{1711^B}; Robert Browning, English poet, ^B{1812^B}; Johannes Brahms, German composer, ^B{1833^B}; Peter Iljitch Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, ^B{1840^B}; Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery, British politician, ^B{1847^B}; Gary Cooper, US film actor, ^B{1901^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Jacques de Thou, French historian and politician, ^B{1617^B}; Mary of Modena, consort of James II, ^B{1718^B}; Henry, Lord Brougham, British politician, ^B{1868^B}; Paul Doumer, French president, assassinated, ^B{1932^B}; George Lansbury, British politician, ^B{1940^B}; James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist, ^B{1941^B}.
