This Day, That Year – May 7

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright born on this day in 1812.

Did you know that:

• Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, and philosopher born on this day in 1861
• A patent was granted to Joseph Winters for the fire escape ladder on this day in 1878
• Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporations, later renamed Sony, was founded on this day in 1946