May 7th, 2023

Born on May 7th, 2023

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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

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

35

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

36

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

63

Johannes Brahms

German composer (1833–1897)

*May 7th, 1833, Hamburg †April 3rd, 1897, Vienna

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

78

Oskar von Miller

German engineer

*May 7th, 1855, Munich †April 9th, 1934, Munich

35

Sander Puri

Estonian association football player

*May 7th, 1988, Tartu

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

39

James Loney

American baseball player

*May 7th, 1984, Houston

33

Sydney Leroux

Canadian-born American soccer player

*May 7th, 1990, Surrey

54

Marie Bäumer

German actress

*May 7th, 1969, Düsseldorf

87

Josip Broz

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892.−1980.)

*May 7th, 1892, Kumrovec †May 4th, 1980, Ljubljana

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

29

Alexandra Aldridge

American ice dancer

*May 7th, 1994, Royal Oak

26

Magdalena Klatka

Polish pair skater

*May 7th, 1997, Oświęcim

42

Dave Steele

American racing driver

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

28

Peter James Hallam

Figure skater

*May 7th, 1995, Sheffield

62

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

25

MrBeast

American YouTuber (born 1998)

*May 7th, 1998, Wichita

67

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

42

Gijs Vermeulen

Dutch rower

*May 7th, 1981, Amsterdam

48

Michael Kretschmer

German politician

*May 7th, 1975, Görlitz

33

Ian Lorello

American ice dancer

*May 7th, 1990, Romeoville

43

Jeremy Staunton

Irish rugby union player

*May 7th, 1980, Limerick

29

Merijn Korevaar

Dutch cyclist

*May 7th, 1994, South Holland

51

Asghar Farhadi

Iranian screenwriter and film director

*May 7th, 1972, Isfahan Province

60

Gary Cooper

American actor (1901–1961)

*May 7th, 1901, Helena †May 13th, 1961, Beverly Hills

59

Ib Frederiksen

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1964, Skive

71

Jacqueline Barton

American chemist

*May 7th, 1952, New York City

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