Today in History - May 7

1947 - Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years.

1948 - The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.

1952 - The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.

1954 - Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).

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

1964 - Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.

1974 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.

1992 - 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.

1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage (STS-49). The STS-49 mission logo.

1992 - 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.

1998 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion U.S. and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

1999 - Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope that had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

1999 - A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure, and the jury awarded Amedure's family $25 million U.S.

1999 - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

1999 - In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.

2002 - A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

2005 - Former Lebanese Prime Minister, General Michel Aoun returns to Lebanon after 15 years in exile.

2007 - The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.