May 7th, 1718

Born on May 7th, 1718

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on May 7th, 1718?

May 7th, 1718

The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans

What else happened on May 7th?

May 7th, 2010

A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's 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, 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 (pictured) 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.

May 7th, 1964

Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.

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

Same Day
Who's birthday is on May 7th?

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

35

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

*May 7th, 1861, Kolkata †August 7th, 1941, Kolkata

63

Johannes Brahms

German composer (1833–1897)

*May 7th, 1833, Hamburg †April 3rd, 1897, Vienna

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

*May 7th, 1896, Bayswater †June 19th, 1992, London

78

Oskar von Miller

German engineer

*May 7th, 1855, Munich †April 9th, 1934, Munich

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

*May 7th, 1923, Michigan City †December 12th, 1985, New York City

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

87

Josip Broz

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892.−1980.)

*May 7th, 1892, Kumrovec †May 4th, 1980, Ljubljana

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

45

Olympe de Gouges

French playwright and political activist

*May 7th, 1748, Montauban †November 3rd, 1793, Paris

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

36

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

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80

Christian Friedrich Exner

German architect

*May 13th, 1718, Lampertswalde †September 1st, 1798, Dresden

80

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718-1799)

*May 16th, 1718, Milan †January 9th, 1799, Milan

62

Mariana Victoria of Spain

Infanta of Spain by birth, later regent of Portugal

*March 31st, 1718, Madrid †January 15th, 1781, Palace of Ajuda

27

Anna Leopoldovna

Regent and Grand Duchess of Russia (1718-1746)

*December 18th, 1718, Rostock †March 19th, 1746, Kholmogory

72

Israel Putnam

American Revolutionary War general (1718–1790)

*January 7th, 1718, Danvers †May 29th, 1790, Brooklyn

53

John Canton

British physicist

*July 31st, 1718, Stroud †March 22nd, 1772, London

64

William Hunter

British anatomist and physician (1718-1783)

*May 23rd, 1718, East Kilbride †March 30th, 1783, London

76

Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg

German music critic, music-theorist and composer

*November 21st, 1718, Wendemark †May 22nd, 1795, Berlin

53

Johann Berenberg

Hamburg merchant banker (1718-1772)

*March 12th, 1718, Hamburg †March 2nd, 1772, Hamburg

76

Paul Rabaut

French pastor (1718-1794)

*January 29th, 1718, Bédarieux †September 25th, 1794, Nîmes

68

Tommaso Maria Ghilini

Italian catholic cardinal and archbishop

*August 5th, 1718, Alessandria †April 3rd, 1787, Turin

71

Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier

French Catholic theologian

*December 31st, 1718, Darney †April 9th, 1790, Paris

81

Elizabeth Montagu

British social reformer, patron of the arts, hostess, literary critic, and writer; (1718-1800)

*October 2nd, 1718, York †August 25th, 1800, London

74

Alexander Roslin

Swedish painter (1718–1793)

*July 15th, 1718, Malmö Sankt Petri församling †July 5th, 1793, Paris

80

Antoine de Chézy

French engineer

*September 1st, 1718, Châlons-en-Champagne †October 5th, 1798, Paris

80

Johann Gottlieb Bosseck

German canon

*April 3rd, 1718, Leipzig †June 7th, 1798, Leipzig

65

Angelius Johann Daniel Aepinus

German philosopher

*May 10th, 1718, Rostock †February 28th, 1784, Rostock

90

Saverio Bettinelli

Italian Jesuit writer (1718-1808)

*July 18th, 1718, Mantua †September 13th, 1808, Mantua

70

Wilhelm Christian Justus Chrysander

German theologian

*December 9th, 1718, Halberstadt †December 10th, 1788, Kiel

35

Joseph Coulon de Jumonville

French Canadian military officer killed at the start of the Seven Years' War (1718-1754)

*September 8th, 1718, Quebec City †May 28th, 1754, Fayette County

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