TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Saturday, May 7, the 127th day of 2022. There are 238 days left in the year. On this date in:

1889: The Johns Hopkins Hospital in

Baltimore opened its doors.

1915: A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans,

out of the nearly 2,000 on board.

1928: The minimum voting age for British women was lowered from 30 to 21 – the same age as men.

1941: Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA Victor.

1945: Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending its role in World War II.

1954: The 55-day Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam ended with Vietnamese insurgents overrunning French forces. 1963: The United States launched the

Telstar 2 communications satellite. 1975: President Gerald R. Ford formally declared an end to the “Vietnam era.” In Ho Chi Minh City – formerly Saigon – the Viet Cong celebrated its takeover. 1977: Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby, the first of his Triple Crown victories.

2010: A Bp-chartered vessel lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault onto the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in an unprecedented, and ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea.

2019: Two students opened fire inside a charter school in a Denver suburb not far from Columbine High School, killing a fellow student, 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo, who authorities said had charged at the shooters to protect classmates. (Both attackers would be sentenced to life in prison; one who was 16 at the time of the shooting could be

eligible for parole after about 20 years.)