May 7th, 1974

Born on May 7th, 1974

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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, 1974

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

42

Dave Steele

American racing driver

*May 7th, 1974, Tampa †March 25th, 2017, Freedom Factory

49

Breckin Meyer

American actor

*May 7th, 1974, Minneapolis

49

Costel Mutescu

Romanian rower

*May 7th, 1974, Rădăuți

49

Christian Sebastia

Venezuelan gospel singer, songwriter, musician and producer and Pastor

*May 7th, 1974, Puerto Ordaz

49

Beth Sotelo

American comic book colorist

*May 7th, 1974, California

49

Jason Ervin

American politician

*May 7th, 1974, Chicago

49

Ben Bostrom

American motorcycle racer

*May 7th, 1974, Redding

49

Ian Pearce

English association football player (born 1974)

*May 7th, 1974, Bury St Edmunds

31

Lynden David Hall

English singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer (1974–2006)

*May 7th, 1974, Wandsworth †February 14th, 2006, London Borough of Wandsworth

49

Maggie Peren

German screenwriter and film director

*May 7th, 1974, Heidelberg

49

Ricardo Francisco Rojas

Chilean footballer (born 1974)

*May 7th, 1974, Vallenar

49

Lawrence Johnson

First Black Pole vaulter

*May 7th, 1974, Norfolk

49

Colm Gilcreest

Irish snooker player

*May 7th, 1974, Navan

49

Izell Reese

American football player

*May 7th, 1974, Dothan

49

Kamal Mokdad

CEO of the panafrican banking group, Banque Centrale Populaire, headquartered in Morocco.

*May 7th, 1974, Meknes

49

Erhan Namlı

Turkish footballer

*May 7th, 1974, Ankara

49

Craig Deans

Australian soccer player

*May 7th, 1974, Perth

49

Ted O'Brien

Australian politician

*May 7th, 1974, Brisbane

49

Luis Ángel Espinosa Cházaro

Mexican politician

*May 7th, 1974, Guadalajara

49

Kei Mizutani

Japanese adult video actress

*May 7th, 1974, Aomori Prefecture

49

Christoffer Boe

Danish filmmaker

*May 7th, 1974, Denmark

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47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

35

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

48

Michael Kretschmer

German politician

*May 7th, 1975, Görlitz

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

51

Asghar Farhadi

Iranian screenwriter and film director

*May 7th, 1972, Isfahan Province

54

Marie Bäumer

German actress

*May 7th, 1969, Düsseldorf

36

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

52

Emmanuel Magnien

French cyclist

*May 7th, 1971, Sedan

39

James Loney

American baseball player

*May 7th, 1984, Houston

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

43

Jeremy Staunton

Irish rugby union player

*May 7th, 1980, Limerick

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Born in 1974

49

Arianne Zucker

American actress and model

*June 3rd, 1974, Northridge

50

Ty Olsson

Canadian actor (born 1974)

*January 28th, 1974, Halifax

49

Anggun

Indonesian-born French singer-songwriter and television personality

*April 29th, 1974, Jakarta

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

49

Yoo Yong-sung

Badminton player

*October 25th, 1974, Dangjin

49

Michelle Edwards

Badminton player

*July 11th, 1974, Durban

49

Kenneth Jonassen

Badminton player

*July 3rd, 1974, Herning

49

Markus Weinzierl

German association football player and manager

*December 28th, 1974, Straubing

49

Marina Andrievskaia

Badminton player

*November 20th, 1974, Moscow

49

Florentine Lahme

TV and film actress

*July 21st, 1974, Berlin

50

Anna Grisebach

German actress

*March 20th, 1974, Göttingen

49

Leonardo DiCaprio

American actor and film producer (born 1974)

*November 11th, 1974, Los Angeles

50

Adrian Holmes

Welsh-Canadian actor

*March 31st, 1974, Wrexham

50

Martin Dulig

German politician (SPD)

*February 26th, 1974, Plauen

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

49

Bas Böttcher

German writer and poetry slam performer

*December 31st, 1974, Bremen

50

Alyson Hannigan

American actress and television presenter

*March 24th, 1974, Washington, D.C.

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

49

Kim Ji-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*September 10th, 1974, Busan

49

Bertrand Gallet

Badminton player

*May 24th, 1974, Lille

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No: With 365 days 1974 is a normal year and no leap year.

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