May 7th, 1945

Born on May 7th, 1945

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What happened on May 7th, 1945?

May 7th, 1945

World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jodl

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, 1945

78

Robin Strasser

American actress

*May 7th, 1945, New York City

78

Susan Denham

Chief Justice of Ireland

*May 7th, 1945, Sandymount

76

Ewert Ljusberg

Swedish musician

*May 7th, 1945, Hede †October 1st, 2021

78

Christy Moore

Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist

*May 7th, 1945, Newbridge

58

Cornelius Bumpus

American musician (1945-2004)

*May 7th, 1945, Dallas †February 3rd, 2004, Sioux City

78

Clifford Crouch

American politician

*May 7th, 1945, Sidney

76

Max Müller

German handball player

*May 7th, 1945, Niederbühl †December 13th, 2021

78

Antoinette Sassou Nguesso

First Lady of the Republic of the Congo

*May 7th, 1945, Brazzaville

78

Don Bowen

Member of South Carolina House of Representatives

*May 7th, 1945, Charleston

78

Dewey Warren

American football player

*May 7th, 1945, Savannah

78

Bu-Buakei Jabbi

Sierra Leonean politician

*May 7th, 1945, Kailahun District

78

Abdullah Mahmud Hendropriyono

Indonesian military person and politician

*May 7th, 1945, Yogyakarta City

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

79

Sabina Higgins

Irish actress, wife of 9th Irish President

*May 7th, 1944, Ballindine

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

77

Michael Rosen

British children's author and poet

*May 7th, 1946, Harrow

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

79

Dy Saveth

Cambodian actress

*May 7th, 1944, Phnom Penh

71

Jacqueline Barton

American chemist

*May 7th, 1952, New York City

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

67

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

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Born in 1945

78

Vernon Wells

Australian actor

*December 31st, 1945, Rushworth

79

Manuel Neuer

German association football player

*March 27th, 1945, Gelsenkirchen

78

Franz Beckenbauer

German footballer (1945–2024)

*September 11th, 1945, Richard-Wagner-Straße 19 (München) †January 7th, 2024, Salzburg

75

Gerd Müller

German footballer (1945–2021)

*November 3rd, 1945, Nördlingen †August 15th, 2021, Wolfratshausen

79

Thilo Sarrazin

German economist and politician

*February 12th, 1945, Gera

72

Christine Kaufmann

German actress and businesswoman (1945-2017)

*January 11th, 1945, Lengdorf †March 28th, 2017, Munich

78

Victoria Bond

American composer

*May 6th, 1945, Los Angeles

78

Andreas Schmidt-Schaller

German actor

*October 30th, 1945, Arnstadt

78

Lasse Berghagen

Swedish singer, musician, songwriter, writer and television presenter

*May 13th, 1945, Enskede-Årsta-Vantör city district †October 19th, 2023, Stockholms Sankt Johannes

79

Rodrigo Duterte

President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022

*March 28th, 1945, Maasin

78

Helen Mirren

English actor (born 1945)

*July 26th, 1945, Hammersmith

36

Bob Marley

Jamaican reggae musician (1945–1981)

*February 6th, 1945, Nine Mile †May 11th, 1981, Jackson Memorial Hospital

78

Manfred Clauss

German historian of classical antiquity

*August 16th, 1945, Cologne

78

Aung San Suu Kyi

Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

*June 19th, 1945, Yangon

78

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

President of Brazil (2003–2010, 2023–present)

*October 27th, 1945, Caetés

78

Radovan Karadžić

Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide

*June 19th, 1945, Petnjica

78

John Lithgow

American actor

*October 19th, 1945, Rochester

76

Peter Patzak

Austrian film director and Screenwriter (1945-2021)

*January 2nd, 1945, Vienna †March 11th, 2021, Krems

71

Claus Ryskjær

Danish actor (1945-2016)

*June 26th, 1945, Frederiksberg †December 12th, 2016

72

Barkley L. Hendricks

African American painter

*April 16th, 1945, Nicetown-Tioga †April 18th, 2017, New London

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