What are the important events that happened on May 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 7: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 7 is the 128th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 238 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 24, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,715,040,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaicosaoctagon’ day.
Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 267 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,155 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 7 Historical Events
- 1847 –The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1895 –In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
- 1920 –Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
- 1940 –The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
- 1974 –West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
- 1992 –Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
- 1998 –Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
- 1999 –In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
- 1999 –Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
- 2007 –Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
Who were born on May 7?
- 1530 –Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general (d. 1569)
- 1911 –Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993)
- 1923 –Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1928 –John Ingle, American actor
- 1940 –Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992)
- 1946 –Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
- 1959 –Michael E. Knight, American actor
- 1963 –Johnny Lee Middleton, American musician (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
- 1964 –Ronnie Harmon, American football player
- 1984 –James Loney, American baseball player
Who died on May 7?
- 1615 –Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
- 1667 –Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (b. 1616)
- 1793 –Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (b. 1722)
- 1800 –Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)
- 1825 –Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)
- 1942 –Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)
- 1998 –Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
- 2005 –Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
- 2006 –Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (b. 1943)
- 2007 –Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
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