May 7th, 1956

Born on May 7th, 1956

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What 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.

May 7th, 1960

Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

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

Born on May 7th, 1956

67

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

67

Nicholas Hytner

English film and theatre director

*May 7th, 1956, Didsbury

67

Anne Dudley

English composer and pop musician

*May 7th, 1956, Chatham

67

Elsie Arntzen

Member of the Montana House of Representatives

*May 7th, 1956, Billings

67

S. Scott Bullock

American actor

*May 7th, 1956, Santa Monica

67

Stanisław Żółtek

Polish politician

*May 7th, 1956, Kraków

67

Andreas Plückthun

Biochemist

*May 7th, 1956, Heidelberg

67

Hartmut Reich

German amateur wrestler

*May 7th, 1956, Apolda

59

Jean Lapierre

Canadian politician and television broadcaster (1956-2016)

*May 7th, 1956, Bassin †March 29th, 2016, Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine

67

Vladimir Lisin

Russian businessman

*May 7th, 1956, Ivanovo

67

Calum MacDonald

British politician (born 1956)

*May 7th, 1956, Stornoway

67

Andrei Dmitriev

Russian novelist and short story writer

*May 7th, 1956, Saint Petersburg

67

Tony Cassolato

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 7th, 1956, Guelph

67

Gabriela Ruiz del Rincón

Mexican politician

*May 7th, 1956, Sinaloa

67

Dušan Meško

Internist, head of the Department of Sports Medicine at the Martin University Hospital

*May 7th, 1956, Martin

67

Bruce Threadgill

American football player

*May 7th, 1956, Nocona

67

Brendan Lynskey

Irish hurler

*May 7th, 1956, Meelick

67

Phil Kenyon

English squash player

*May 7th, 1956, Blackpool

67

Valerie Foushee

American politician from North Carolina

*May 7th, 1956, Chapel Hill

67

Göran Göransson

Swedish association football player

*May 7th, 1956, Stockholm

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

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

35

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

56

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

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

64

Steve Hansen

New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach

*May 7th, 1959, Invercargill

62

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

71

Jacqueline Barton

American chemist

*May 7th, 1952, New York City

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

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

54

Marie Bäumer

German actress

*May 7th, 1969, Düsseldorf

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

Same year
Born in 1956

68

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Charles M. Huber

German actor and politician

*December 3rd, 1956, Munich

68

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

23

Ian Curtis

British musician (1956–1980)

*July 15th, 1956, Stretford †May 18th, 1980, Macclesfield

67

Valgerd Svarstad Haugland

Norwegian politician

*August 23rd, 1956, Kvam Municipality

67

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Martyn Ware

English musician

*May 19th, 1956, Sheffield

68

Gunnar Brands

German classical archaeologist

*March 30th, 1956, Duisburg

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

68

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

62

Minken Fosheim

Norwegian actress (1956-2018)

*March 20th, 1956, Oslo †June 7th, 2018, Oslo

68

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Han Jian

Chinese badminton player

*July 6th, 1956, Liaoning

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Leap year

Yes: 1956 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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