May 7th, 1709

Born on May 7th, 1709

Age in days, weeks and months
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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 1709

41

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

French physician and philosopher

*December 12th, 1709, Saint-Malo †November 11th, 1751, Potsdam

75

Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)

*September 18th, 1709, Lichfield †December 13th, 1784, London

73

Jacques de Vaucanson

French inventor of mechanical automata

*February 24th, 1709, Grenoble †November 21st, 1782, Paris

45

Johann Georg Gmelin

German and Russian scientist (1709-1755)

*August 10th, 1709, Tübingen †May 20th, 1755, Tübingen

62

Louis de Bourbon, Count of Clermont

French noble (1709-1771)

*June 15th, 1709, Versailles †June 16th, 1771, Paris

65

Domingo de Basavilbaso

Argentinian businessperson (1709-1775)

*September 1st, 1709, Laudio/Llodio †May 9th, 1775, Buenos Aires

98

Jean-Baptiste de Belloy

Catholic cardinal (1709-1808)

*October 9th, 1709, France †June 10th, 1808, Paris

60

Francesco Araja

Italian composer

*June 25th, 1709, Naples †January 1st, 1770, Bologna

73

Hans Ulrich Grubenmann

Swiss builder

*June 23rd, 1709, Teufen †January 22nd, 1783, Teufen

76

Gabriel Bonnot de Mably

French philosopher, historian, and writer (1709–1785)

*March 14th, 1709, Grenoble †April 2nd, 1785, Paris

22

Louise of Anhalt-Dessau

Princess consort of Anhalt-Bernburg

*August 21st, 1709, Dessau †July 29th, 1732, Bernburg

79

Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1709-1788)

*August 21st, 1709, Schwedt/Oder †December 12th, 1788, Schwedt/Oder

72

Joachim Martin Falbe

German Painter (1709-1782)

*June 11th, 1709, Berlin †March 22nd, 1782, Berlin

74

Charles Collé

French writer

*April 14th, 1709, Paris †November 3rd, 1783, Paris

64

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

British politician

*January 17th, 1709, Hagley †August 24th, 1773, Hagley

73

Andreas Sigismund Marggraf

German chemist (1709-1782)

*March 3rd, 1709, Berlin †August 7th, 1782, Berlin

67

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

French poet (1709-1777)

*August 29th, 1709, Amiens †June 16th, 1777, Amiens

82

Frobenius Forster

Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey St. Emmeram, Regensburg

*August 30th, 1709, Königsfeld (Wolnzach) †October 1st, 1791, Regensburg

71

Christian Ernst Friederici

Organ builder (1709-1780)

*March 7th, 1709, Meerane †May 4th, 1780, Gera

79

John Cleland

British writer (1709-1789)

*September 24th, 1709, Kingston upon Thames †January 23rd, 1789, City of Westminster

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1709 is a normal year and no leap year.

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