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 127^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 238 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 24, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 485,160 hours 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 ‘hectaicosaheptagon’ 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 286 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 4,520 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 7 Historical Events

• 1348 –
  Charles University in Prague (Universitas Carolina/Univerzita Karlova) is established as the first university in Central Europe.
• 1697 –
  Stockholm’s royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced by the current Royal Palace in the eighteenth century.
• 1824 –
  World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer’s supervision.
• 1846 –
  The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1920 –
  Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month 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.
• 1954 –
  Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
• 1964 –
  Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
• 2000 –
  Vladimir Putin is inaugurated president of Russia
• 2002 –
  A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

Who were born on May 7?

• 1812 –
  Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
• 1857 –
  William A. MacCorkle, American politician (d. 1930)
• 1936 –
  Bobby Joe Green, American football player (d. 1993)
• 1954 –
  Amy Heckerling, American director
• 1955 –
  Kevin Reed, American theologian
• 1956 –
  Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1958 –
  Mark G. Kuzyk, American physicist
• 1972 –
  Peter Dubovský, Slovak footballer (d. 2000)
• 1985 –
  Drew Neitzel, American basketball player
• 1987 –
  Michael Maidens, English footballer (d. 2007)

Who died on May 7?

• 973 –
  Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)
• 1825 –
  Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)
• 1887 –
  C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
• 1942 –
  Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)
• 1951 –
  Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1989 –
  Guy Williams, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1995 –
  Ray McKinley, American jazz drummer, singer and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 2005 –
  Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
• 2007 –
  Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1926)
• 2007 –
  Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (b. 1935)