May 7th, 2497

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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

Birthdays and future age on May 7th, 2497

521

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

509

Ma Jin

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

513

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

523

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

498

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

500

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

527

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

495

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

511

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

510

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

530

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

526

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

543

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

540

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

528

Marie Bäumer

German actress

*May 7th, 1969, Düsseldorf

509

Sander Puri

Estonian association football player

*May 7th, 1988, Tartu

513

James Loney

American baseball player

*May 7th, 1984, Houston

541

Jan Peter Balkenende

49th Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

536

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

507

Sydney Leroux

Canadian-born American soccer player

*May 7th, 1990, Surrey

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