It happened on a… May 7

2021

The World Health Organization approves the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm, its first made by a non-western country.

2019

Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin “magic mushrooms”.

2018

Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years.

2017

Emmanuel Macron wins France’s presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen.

2011

“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”, directed by Rob Marshall, starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, premieres in – opening weekend makes $350.6m.

1998

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

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.