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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48454)	5/7/2005 9:22:23 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

May 7 German surrender 1945: Early this morning, a German delegation that included General Alfred Jodl came to U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims, France, and at 2:41 AM signed the surrender documents that ended the European phase of World War II. Despite the fact that a Soviet major general signed for the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin insisted that a second surrender be signed the following afternoon in a suburb of Soviet-occupied Berlin. 1954: Viet Minh General Vo Nguyen Giap took the French by surprise at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, surrounding their base with 40,000 men and employing heavy artillery to capture it during the First Indochina War. 1918: The Treaty of Bucharest forced Romania to make territorial and financial reparations following its defeat by the Central Powers during World War I. 1915: A German submarine sunk the Lusitania, a British ocean liner, indirectly contributing to the entry of the United States into World War I. 1915: Japan delivered an ultimatum to China, demanding special privileges from it, which the major European powers were unable to oppose because of their involvement in World War I. 1663: The Drury Lane Theatre, built by the dramatist Thomas Killigrew for his company of actors known as the Theatre Royal, opened in London, ushering in the propitious era of Restoration drama. Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore, born this day in 1861, was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. "When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest." Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (1910), verse 39