May 7th, 1976

Born on May 7th, 1976

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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, 1976

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Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

47

Stacey Jones

New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach

*May 7th, 1976, Auckland

47

Matteo Gianello

Italian footballer

*May 7th, 1976, Bovolone

47

Dave van den Bergh

Dutch footballer

*May 7th, 1976, Amsterdam

47

Yeung Ching Kwong

Hong Kong footballer

*May 7th, 1976, Hong Kong

47

Alejandro Spajic

Argentine volleyball player

*May 7th, 1976, San Juan

47

Matt Squire

American record producer

*May 7th, 1976, Washington, D.C.

47

Sophie Thalmann

French model

*May 7th, 1976, Bar-le-Duc

47

Ayelet Shaked

Israeli ex-politician, activist, and engineer (born 1976)

*May 7th, 1976, Tel Aviv

47

Andrea Lo Cicero

Italian rugby union player

*May 7th, 1976, Catania

47

Calvin Booth

American basketball player

*May 7th, 1976, Reynoldsburg

47

Łukasz Starowicz

Polish sportsperson

*May 7th, 1976, Bielsko-Biała

47

Thomas Biagi

Italian racecar driver

*May 7th, 1976, Bologna

47

Berke Hatipoğlu

Turkish musician

*May 7th, 1976, Istanbul

47

Steven Reinprecht

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 7th, 1976, Edmonton

47

Alexandra Béres

Hungarian model and curler

*May 7th, 1976, Budapest

47

Özlem Sara Çekiç

Turco-Danish politician

*May 7th, 1976, Ankara

47

Mariana van Zeller

Portuguese journalist

*May 7th, 1976, Cascais

47

Ronny Ernst

German footballer

*May 7th, 1976, Dresden

47

Daniel Njenga

Kenyan marathon runner

*May 7th, 1976, Kenya

47

Paulo Roberto Junges

Brazilian footballer

*May 7th, 1976, Selbach, Rio Grande do Sul

47

Pat Keogh

Scottish footballer (born 1976)

*May 7th, 1976, Glasgow

47

Chrisoula Zacharopoulou

Greek-French gynecologist and politician

*May 7th, 1976, Sparti

47

Sean Gillam

Canadian ice hockey defenceman

*May 7th, 1976, Lethbridge

47

Maciej Golubiewski

Polish diplomat and political scientist

*May 7th, 1976, Łódź

47

Gisela Riera

Spanish tennis player (1976-)

*May 7th, 1976, Barcelona

47

Cariola Hechavarría

Olympic basketball player

*May 7th, 1976, Santiago de Cuba

47

Anders Juliussen

Norwegian association football player

*May 7th, 1976, Moss Municipality

47

Cleber Alexandre Gomes

Brazilian association football player

*May 7th, 1976, Brazil

47

Tang Lin

Judoka

*May 7th, 1976, Weiyuan County

47

Gō Jibiki

Japanese actor

*May 7th, 1976, Tokyo

47

Gianpiero Pastore

Italian fencer

*May 7th, 1976, Salerno

47

Berk Tuna

Olympic triple jumper

*May 7th, 1976, Manisa

47

Deon Humphrey

American football linebacker

*May 7th, 1976, Clewiston

47

Zoé Félix

French actress

*May 7th, 1976, 14th arrondissement of Paris

47

Jay Frog

German DJ

*May 7th, 1976, Ludwigshafen

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49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

35

Ma Jin

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

42

Dave Steele

American racing driver

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

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

48

Jean-Sébastien Fecteau

Canadian pair skater

*May 7th, 1975, Thetford Mines

46

Grégory Paisley

Footballer

*May 7th, 1977, Paris

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

39

James Loney

American baseball player

*May 7th, 1984, Houston

48

Michael Kretschmer

German politician

*May 7th, 1975, Görlitz

35

Sander Puri

Estonian association football player

*May 7th, 1988, Tartu

36

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

59

Ib Frederiksen

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1964, Skive

29

Alexandra Aldridge

American ice dancer

*May 7th, 1994, Royal Oak

62

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

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Born in 1976

47

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

47

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

47

Anna Friel

English actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

47

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

41

Chester Bennington

American singer (1976–2017)

*March 20th, 1976, Phoenix †July 20th, 2017, Palos Verdes Estates

47

Yuval Noah Harari

Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers

*February 24th, 1976, Kiryat Ata

47

Andrew Erickson

American biathlete

*May 5th, 1976, Minnetonka

47

Jessica Capshaw

American actress (born 1976)

*August 9th, 1976, Columbia

47

Audrey Tautou

French actress

*August 9th, 1976, Beaumont

47

Dan Fogler

American actor, musician and filmmaker

*October 20th, 1976, Brooklyn

47

Hines Ward

American football player, wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers

*March 8th, 1976, Seoul

46

Brendan Hines

American actor and singer

*December 28th, 1976, Baltimore

47

Elliot Cowan

British actor

*July 9th, 1976, London

46

Alicia Machado

Actress, TV show host, singer, Miss Universe 1996 and Miss Venezuela 1995

*December 6th, 1976, Maracay

47

Kevin Alejandro

American actor and film director

*April 7th, 1976, San Antonio

47

Reese Witherspoon

American actress (born 1976)

*March 22nd, 1976, New Orleans

47

Frank Streffing

German actor

*December 1st, 1976, North Rhine-Westphalia

40

Ueli Steck

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

*October 4th, 1976, Langnau im Emmental †April 30th, 2017, Nuptse

47

Regina Halmich

German boxer

*November 22nd, 1976, Karlsruhe

47

Matt Evers

American pair skater

*March 16th, 1976, Saint Paul

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Leap year

Yes: 1976 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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