May 7th, 1708

Born on May 7th, 1708

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 116,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 7th?

May 7th, 1954

A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.

May 7th, 2010

A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that most living humans have Neanderthal ancestors.

May 7th, 2009

Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.

May 7th, 1999

Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

May 7th, 1960

Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.

May 7th, 1946

Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.

May 7th, 1940

A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).

May 7th, 1937

Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.

May 7th, 1931

New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered.

May 7th, 1895

Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.

May 7th, 1798

War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast, inflicting heavy losses.

May 7th, 1794

French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

May 7th, 1763

Pontiac, a Native American chief of the Odawa tribe, led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.

May 7th, 1697

The 13th-century castle of Tre Kronor in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace were presented within the year.

May 7th, 1487

Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 7th

Same year
Born in 1708

69

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768

*November 15th, 1708, London †May 11th, 1778, London Borough of Bromley

69

Albrecht von Haller

Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708-1777)

*October 16th, 1708, Bern †December 12th, 1777, Bern

20

Anna Petrovna of Russia

Elder daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and Catherine I of Russia

*February 27th, 1708, Moscow †May 4th, 1728, Kiel

41

Moyse Garrigue

(1708-1750)

*September 9th, 1708, Magdeburg †February 1st, 1750, Magdeburg

80

Paul Egede

Dano-Norwegian theologian

*September 9th, 1708, Kabelvåg †June 6th, 1789, Copenhagen

19

Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne

French noblewoman

*November 24th, 1708, France †July 28th, 1728, Hilpoltstein

60

Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

*July 17th, 1708, Weferlingen †January 20th, 1769, Bayreuth

82

Adam Struensee

German theologian

*September 8th, 1708, Neuruppin †June 20th, 1791, Rendsburg

58

Friedrich Gottfried Houck

German jurist

*August 19th, 1708, Steinfurt †June 28th, 1767, Utrecht

69

Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart

Catholic cardinal (1708-1777)

*January 27th, 1708, Toulouse †March 20th, 1777, Paris

69

William Hayes

English composer, organist and singer

*January 25th, 1708, Gloucester †July 27th, 1777, Oxford

67

Egidio Duni

Italian composer

*February 11th, 1708, Matera †June 11th, 1775, Paris

46

Friedrich von Hagedorn

German poet

*April 23rd, 1708, Hamburg †October 28th, 1754, Hamburg

84

Frans Burman

Dutch theologian, university teacher and writer (1708-1793)

*October 3rd, 1708, Amsterdam †April 10th, 1793, Utrecht

81

Jean Chastel

French farmer (1708-1789)

*March 31st, 1708, La Besseyre-Saint-Mary †January 1st, 1790, France

61

Johann Caspar Richter

German merchant (1708-1770)

*September 16th, 1708, Leipzig †August 7th, 1770, Leipzig

59

Daniel Gralath

18th century physicist and mayor of Gdansk

*May 30th, 1708, Gdańsk †July 23rd, 1767, Gdańsk

63

Georg Reutter II

Austrian composer (1708–1772)

*April 6th, 1708, Vienna †March 11th, 1772, Vienna

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Public holidays on May 7th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on May 7th.

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Leap year

Yes: 1708 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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