May 7th, 1954

Born on May 7th, 1954

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What happened on May 7th, 1954?

May 7th, 1954

Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungannon

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.

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

Born on May 7th, 1954

70

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

70

Philippe Geluck

Belgian cartoonist and humorist

*May 7th, 1954, City of Brussels

70

Heinzpeter Hempelmann

German theologian

*May 7th, 1954, Bonn

70

Candice Miller

Former U.S. Representative from Michigan

*May 7th, 1954, St. Clair Shores

70

Elisabeth Rynell

Swedish writer

*May 7th, 1954, Stockholm

70

Elaine Shemilt

Fine art printmaker

*May 7th, 1954, Edinburgh

70

Amy Heckerling

American television writer

*May 7th, 1954, The Bronx

70

Jean-Louis Haillet

French tennis player

*May 7th, 1954, Nice

70

Phil Gillies

Canadian politician

*May 7th, 1954, Hertfordshire

70

Ian Britza

Australian politician

*May 7th, 1954, Como

70

Diana Raab

American writer, memoirist, essayist, poet and teacher

*May 7th, 1954, Brooklyn

70

Bernhard Purkrabek

Austrian bobsledder

*May 7th, 1954, Zell am Ziller

70

Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg

South African scientist

*May 7th, 1954, Amsterdam

70

Efraín Gutiérrez

Honduran footballer

*May 7th, 1954, La Ceiba

70

Nissim Dahan

Israeli politician

*May 7th, 1954, Morocco

Same Day
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

67

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

68

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

72

Jacqueline Barton

American chemist

*May 7th, 1952, New York City

54

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

50

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

57

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

40

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

68

Nicholas Hytner

English film and theatre director

*May 7th, 1956, Didsbury

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

53

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

63

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

25

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

65

Steve Hansen

New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach

*May 7th, 1959, Invercargill

27

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

38

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

22

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

Same year
Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Serbian and French film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

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No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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