May 7th, 1940

Born on May 7th, 1940

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What happened on May 7th, 1940?

May 7th, 1940

World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.

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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

Born on May 7th, 1940

51

Angela Carter

English novelist

*May 7th, 1940, Eastbourne †February 16th, 1992, London

80

Alcira Argumedo

Argentine politician and academic

*May 7th, 1940, Rosario †May 2nd, 2021, Buenos Aires

77

Marek Gołąb

Polish weightlifter

*May 7th, 1940, Zakliczyn †October 6th, 2017, Wrocław

81

Jerry Harkness

American basketball player (1940–2021)

*May 7th, 1940, Harlem †August 24th, 2021

84

Dave Chambers

Canadian ice hockey coach

*May 7th, 1940, Ontario

84

John Irvin

British film director

*May 7th, 1940, Newcastle upon Tyne

84

Sandy Galef

American politician

*May 7th, 1940, La Crosse

84

Grantley Judge

New Zealand hockey player

*May 7th, 1940, Timaru

84

Owe Wiktorin

Swedish general

*May 7th, 1940, Motala

84

Kathleen Keenan

American politician

*May 7th, 1940, Burlington

84

Elizabeth R. McAnarney

American pediatrician

*May 7th, 1940, New York City

80

Mike Gillespie

American baseball player and coach

*May 7th, 1940, Los Angeles †July 29th, 2020, Irvine

80

Kim Chernin

American writer

*May 7th, 1940, The Bronx †December 17th, 2020, Point Reyes Station

75

Frederick Pei Li

American physician

*May 7th, 1940, Guangzhou †June 10th, 2015, Brookline

78

Vasilis N. Triantafillidis

Greek actor (1940-2018)

*May 7th, 1940, Kalamaria †May 21st, 2018, Kalamaria

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Who's birthday is on May 7th?

48

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

36

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

78

Ruud Lubbers

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994

*May 7th, 1939, Rotterdam †February 14th, 2018, Rotterdam

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

50

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

54

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

70

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

40

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

78

José Antonio Abreu

Venezuelan musician (1939-2018)

*May 7th, 1939, Valera †March 24th, 2018, Caracas

57

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

83

Ruggero Deodato

Italian film director

*May 7th, 1939, Potenza †December 29th, 2022, Rome

80

Sabina Higgins

Irish actress, wife of 9th Irish President

*May 7th, 1944, Ballindine

25

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

27

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

67

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

63

Johannes Brahms

German composer (1833–1897)

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

38

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

22

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

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Born in 1940

83

Onur Öymen

Turkish politician and diplomat

*October 18th, 1940, Kadıköy

84

Lorns Skjemstad

Norwegian cross-country skier

*March 10th, 1940, Inderøy Municipality

40

John Lennon

British musician (1940–1980)

*October 9th, 1940, Liverpool †December 8th, 1980, New York City

83

Jeannie Seely

American singer

*July 6th, 1940, Titusville

76

Al Jarreau

American singer (1940–2017)

*March 12th, 1940, Milwaukee †February 12th, 2017, Los Angeles

82

Pelé

Brazilian footballer (1940–2022)

*October 23rd, 1940, Três Corações †December 29th, 2022, Morumbi District

84

Al Pacino

American actor (born 1940)

*April 25th, 1940, Manhattan

77

Michael Parks

American actor (1940–2017)

*April 24th, 1940, Corona †May 9th, 2017, Los Angeles

83

Annie Ernaux

French writer (born 1940)

*September 1st, 1940, Lillebonne

82

James Caan

American actor (1940–2022)

*March 26th, 1940, The Bronx †July 6th, 2022, Los Angeles

80

Wolfgang Clement

German politician

*July 7th, 1940, Bochum †September 27th, 2020, Bonn

84

Nancy Pelosi

American politician (born 1940)

*March 26th, 1940, Baltimore

32

Bruce Lee

Hong Kong and American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)

*November 27th, 1940, San Francisco Chinese Hospital †July 20th, 1973, Kowloon Tong

84

Jana Brejchová

Czech actress

*January 20th, 1940, Prague

55

Joseph Brodsky

Russian-American poet (1940-1996)

*May 24th, 1940, Saint Petersburg †January 28th, 1996, Brooklyn

76

Manfred Jung

German singer and operatic tenor

*July 9th, 1940, Oberhausen †April 14th, 2017, Essen

79

Tilo Prückner

German actor and author

*October 26th, 1940, Augsburg †July 2nd, 2020, Berlin

83

Ringo Starr

British musician, drummer for the Beatles

*July 7th, 1940, Liverpool

83

Patrick Stewart

British actor (born 1940)

*July 13th, 1940, Mirfield

77

John Hurt

British actor (1940–2017)

*January 22nd, 1940, Chesterfield †January 25th, 2017, Norfolk

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Leap year

Yes: 1940 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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