May 7th, 1952

Born on May 7th, 1952

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What happened on May 7th, 1952?

May 7th, 1952

The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit

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, 1952

71

Jacqueline Barton

American chemist

*May 7th, 1952, New York City

71

Blaine Luetkemeyer

American politician

*May 7th, 1952, Jefferson City

71

Bertrand Gosselin

Canadian singer-songwriter

*May 7th, 1952, East Angus

71

Gérard Menuel

French politician

*May 7th, 1952, Jasseines

71

Julian Samuel

Canadian filmmaker

*May 7th, 1952, Lahore

71

Jeffrey Scott

American screenwriter

*May 7th, 1952, Los Angeles

71

Glenda Reyna

Mexican television personality, businessperson, and socialite

*May 7th, 1952, Heroica Caborca

71

Marcus McLaurine

Musician

*May 7th, 1952, Omaha

71

Enrique Vidallé

Argentine footballer

*May 7th, 1952, Buenos Aires

71

María Cabrera Muñoz

Mexican politician

*May 7th, 1952, Coahuila

71

Chris Meloff

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 7th, 1952, Toronto

71

Gérard Laumon

French mathematician

*May 7th, 1952, 4th arrondissement of Lyon

71

Monika Schäfer-Korting

German pharmacologist

*May 7th, 1952, Giessen

71

Jussi Heikkilä

Finnish artist

*May 7th, 1952, Jyväskylä

71

Karen-Lise Mynster

Danish actress

*May 7th, 1952, Aalborg

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47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

35

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

67

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

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

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

62

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

36

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

64

Steve Hansen

New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach

*May 7th, 1959, Invercargill

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71

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)

*October 7th, 1952, V.F. Snegiryov Maternity Hospital No.6

71

Larry Elder

American talk radio host and attorney (born 1952)

*April 27th, 1952, Los Angeles

71

Matti Geschonneck

German film director

*May 8th, 1952, Potsdam

64

Ina-Maria Federowski

German singer (1952-2017)

*September 28th, 1952, Freital †July 13th, 2017, Berlin

71

Knud Arne Jürgensen

Danish music historian

*July 8th, 1952, Copenhagen

49

Douglas Adams

English author and humourist (1952–2001)

*March 11th, 1952, Cambridge †May 11th, 2001, Santa Barbara

64

Reinhard Häfner

German association football player and manager (1952–2016)

*February 2nd, 1952, Sonneberg †October 24th, 2016, Dresden

72

Steven Seagal

American actor, martial artist, and film producer

*April 10th, 1952, Lansing

72

Wolfgang Kubicki

German politician

*March 3rd, 1952, Brunswick

72

Lennart Fagerlund

Cyclist

*April 2nd, 1952, Nässjö

72

Magnar Åm

Norwegian composer

*April 9th, 1952, Trondheim

71

Joachim Kaps

German actor and voice actor

*November 3rd, 1952, Görlitz

58

Brigitte Maier

Porn actress, adult model (1952–2010)

*August 7th, 1952, Kiel †November 13th, 2010, Los Angeles

71

Liam Neeson

Northern Irish actor (born 1952)

*June 7th, 1952, Ballymena

71

Orhan Pamuk

Turkish novelist

*June 7th, 1952, Istanbul

71

Duncan Regehr

Canadian writer, artist and actor

*October 5th, 1952, Lethbridge

71

Mandy Patinkin

American actor and singer

*November 30th, 1952, Chicago

71

John Goodman

American actor, voice artist and comedian (born 1952)

*June 20th, 1952, Affton

71

Stephen Lang

American actor

*July 11th, 1952, New York City

64

Alejandro Atchugarry

Uruguayan politician

*July 31st, 1952, Montevideo †February 19th, 2017, Montevideo

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Leap year

Yes: 1952 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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