Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corporation, announces a $5 billion offer to take over Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
Sunday
May 3, 2007
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom begins a tour of Virginia with a speech to the General Assembly of Virginia in Richmond in honour of the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. She also meets with victims of the Virginia Tech Massacre before departing for Colonial Williamsburg.
May 7, 2007
More than 18,000 Mexicans pose naked for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick at the Zócalo Plaza in Mexico City.
May 8, 2007
Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer claims to have discovered the tomb of Herod the Great in Herodium..
May 9, 2007
The Shanghai Composite Index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange reaches a record high 4,000 points
May 11, 2007
The United States and European Union nations circulate a United Nations resolution on independence for Kosovo with international supervision.
May 12, 2007
The final of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Helsinki, Finland. Serbia wins with its debut entry Molitva.
May 14, 2007
DaimlerChrysler announces it has sold 80.1% of its stake in the Chrysler Group to Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm for $7.4 Billion. It is announced that the corporate names are to be changed to Daimler AG and Chrysler Holding LLC.
May 15, 2007
Canadian publisher The Thomson Corporation agrees to buy Reuters for £8.7 billion creating the world's biggest financial news and data group.
May 15, 2007
Space Shuttle Atlantis rolls out to launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the STS-117 mission to the International Space Station. The rollout is the second for the mission, as Atlantis's External Tank was damaged during a hailstorm on February 26, leading to the shuttle being rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs.
May 17, 2007
Trains travel between North Korea and South Korea for the first time since the Korean War.
May 18, 2007
Black Swan Project: Deep sea explorers retrieve 17 tons of colonial era silver and gold coins with an estimated value of US$500 million.
May 19, 2007
Chelsea F.C. wins the FA Cup Final 2007, defeating Manchester United 1–0 through a goal by Didier Drogba in extra time. It was the first final played at a rebuilt Wembley Stadium.
May 20, 2007
Romário scores his 1000th goal for Vasco da Gama by penalty kick against Sport Recife. He is only the second player in the history of professional soccer to achieve this, the first being Pelé in 1969.
May 20, 2007
The main landing gear of an Air Canada Jazz plane flight # AC8911 collapsed while on a runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada with 37 passangers and 3 crew members who were not injured.
May 20, 2007
Alltel, a mobile phone provider in the United States, is acquired by TPG Capital, L.P. and Goldman Sachs leveraged-buyout unit.
May 22, 2007
Skybus Airlines, a new U.S.-based ultra-low-cost carrier airline, launches inaugural flights to and from Columbus, Ohio, with $10 tickets enabled by on-plane advertising and charging people for baggage, pillows, boarding priority, and refreshments.
May 23, 2007
Gwen Stefani performs in front of a record-breaking crowd at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, MA.
May 25, 2007
The Ostankino Tower has once again caught fire. The BBC reports that the fire is believed to be not as serious as that in 2000 and was isolated to a platform on the outside of the tower. The fire was successfully extinguished, with no casualties.
May 25, 2007
NASDAQ agrees to buy OMX AB which runs several stock exchanges in Scandinavia and the Baltic States for 25.1 billion kronor (USD$3.7 billion).
May 25, 2007
It is announced that the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican is to be fitted with over 1,000 photovoltaic panels to supply all its annual electricity requirements.
May 27, 2007
China claims all gold and silver medals in the Table Tennis World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.
May 27, 2007
Auto racing: Scotland's Dario Franchitti wins the rain-shortened 91st Indianapolis 500.
May 27, 2007
Gay rights in Russia: Russian gay rights leaders and foreign dignitaries are beaten and arrested in Moscow. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov had denied permission for a gay pride parade.
May 28, 2007
Dance instructor Riyo Mori becomes Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City, the second Japanese to do so after Akiko Kojima.
May 29, 2007
Bashar al-Assad is re-elected as President of Syria in an election in which he was the only candidate.
May 29, 2007
Russia successfully tests its new RS-24 ICBM, purportedly designed to defeat present and future anti-missile systems.
May 30, 2007
A fire at the Oldbury nuclear power station in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom forces its indefinite closure. British Nuclear Group announces that the fire has not damaged the reactor and was in a "non-nuclear" area.
May 31, 2007
Alleged Internet spammer Robert Soloway is arrested after being indicted on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud.
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