May 7th, 1963

Born on May 7th, 1963

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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, 1963

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Utz Claassen

German professor

*May 7th, 1963, Hanover

60

Christian Ahrendt

German politician

*May 7th, 1963, Lübeck

60

Dariga Nazarbayeva

Kazakhstani politician

*May 7th, 1963, Temirtau

60

Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

Islamic scholar

*May 7th, 1963, Damascus

60

José Enrique Peña

Uruguayan footballer

*May 7th, 1963, Montevideo

60

Bronwen Maddox

British journalist

*May 7th, 1963, New York City

60

Johnny Lee Middleton

American bassist

*May 7th, 1963, St. Petersburg

60

Sergio Battistini

Italian footballer

*May 7th, 1963, Massa

60

Risto Ulmala

Finnish long-distance runner

*May 7th, 1963, Helsinki

60

Mark S. McNaughton

American politician

*May 7th, 1963, Harrisburg

60

Marco Antonio Blásquez Salinas

Journalist and Senator for Baja California

*May 7th, 1963, Tijuana

60

Chris Ball

American football coach and former player

*May 7th, 1963, St. Louis

60

Federico Muñoz

Colombian racing cyclist

*May 7th, 1963, San Andrés, Santander

60

Erik Gogstad

Norwegian bobsledder

*May 7th, 1963, Sandefjord Municipality

60

Ján Čado

Slovak triple jumper who represented Czechoslovakia

*May 7th, 1963, Trstená

60

Dwayne Dolphin

American jazz bassist

*May 7th, 1963, Pittsburgh

60

Via Lewandowsky

German artist

*May 7th, 1963, Dresden

60

Elaine Smith

British politician (born 1963)

*May 7th, 1963, Coatbridge

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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

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

59

Ib Frederiksen

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1964, Skive

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

62

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

62

Hans-Peter Bartels

German politician

*May 7th, 1961, Düsseldorf

54

Marie Bäumer

German actress

*May 7th, 1969, Düsseldorf

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

64

Steve Hansen

New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach

*May 7th, 1959, Invercargill

67

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

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Born in 1963

61

Xuxa

Brazilian television presenter, actress, singer and former model and Wiggles member

*March 27th, 1963, Santa Rosa

61

Martin Brygmann

Danish composer, comedian and actor

*January 25th, 1963, Kølvrå

60

Shane Reti

New Zealand politician and doctor

*June 5th, 1963, Hamilton

60

Alexandra Paul

American actress

*July 29th, 1963, New York City

61

Daniel Roebuck

American actor and writer

*March 4th, 1963, Bethlehem

60

Uwe Steimle

German actor

*June 20th, 1963, Dresden

60

Kim Moon-soo

South Korean badminton player

*December 29th, 1963, Busan

61

Michael Jordan

American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)

*February 17th, 1963, Brooklyn

60

Florence Parly

French politician

*May 8th, 1963, Boulogne-Billancourt

61

Johann Wadephul

German politician

*February 10th, 1963, Husum

60

Johnny Depp

American actor (born 1963)

*June 9th, 1963, Owensboro

61

Roger Lewentz

German politician

*March 19th, 1963, Lahnstein

53

Mika Vainio

Finnish electronic musician

*May 15th, 1963, Helsinki †April 12th, 2017, Trouville-sur-Mer

60

Brad Pitt

American actor and filmmaker

*December 18th, 1963, Shawnee

60

Viktor Orbán

Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–present)

*May 31st, 1963, Székesfehérvár

48

Whitney Houston

American singer and actress

*August 9th, 1963, Newark †February 11th, 2012, The Beverly Hilton

60

Grete Mogensen

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1963, Skive

60

Mark Strong

British actor

*August 5th, 1963, London

60

Si-An Deng

Badminton player

*June 25th, 1963, Shanghai

60

Ming-Na Wen

American actress and model

*November 20th, 1963, Coloane

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No: With 365 days 1963 is a normal year and no leap year.

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