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• ... that the windmill at South Barrule, Isle of Man (pictured) worked an incline on a railway at a slate quarry?
• ... that Shabdamanidarpana, a comprehensive and authoritative work on the grammar of the Kannada language, was written in the 13th century by the Indian linguist and poet Kesiraja?
• ... that the 1927 disappearance of the French biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc), in an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, is one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation?
• ... that English football full back Alfred Bower was the last amateur player to captain the English national team in 1927?
• ... that screenwriter Daniel Knauf's polio-afflicted father was the inspiration for his television series Carnivàle?
• ... that a majority of the 114 killed in the 1994 Gowari stampede at Nagpur were women and children crushed to death under the crowd’s feet?
• ... that according to Brunei folklore Nakhoda Manis disrespected his mother, which caused a storm to sink his ship in the Brunei River, transforming the ship into the rock known as Jong Batu?
• ... that Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy"?
  

• Cyclone Nargis (pictured) makes landfall in Myanmar as a Category 4 cyclone, reportedly killing more than 22,000 people.
• In Zimbabwe, results of the presidential election held in March 2008 are announced with no outright winner, necessitating a run-off between Morgan Tsvangirai and incumbent Robert Mugabe.
• HP Labs announces the creation of a memristor, the fourth basic element of electronic circuits with the resistor, capacitor, and inductor.
• A train collision near Zibo, China, kills at least 72 people.
• Maoists win a plurality of seats in the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, the first election in Nepal in nine years.
• Researchers discover what is believed to be the first use of oil painting at Bamyan in Afghanistan, predating European oil painting by some six centuries.

May 7: Yom Hazikaron in Israel (2008); Radio Day in Russia and Bulgaria

• 1272 – The first session of the Second Council of Lyon was held to discuss, among others, the pledge by Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos to end the Great Schism and reunite the Eastern church with the West.
• 1763 – Chief Pontiac (pictured) of the Ottawa Native American tribe led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit and drive out the British settlers, beginning Pontiac's Rebellion.
• 1895 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his radio receiver, refined as a lightning detector, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.
• 1915 – World War I: The German submarine Unterseeboot 20 torpedoed and sunk the ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 on board.
• 1920 – Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by signing the Treaty of Moscow, only to invade the country six months later.

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