What happened this day in history May 7

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

  • 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.
  • 1763
    Indian Wars: Pontiac’s Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the “Conspiracy of Pontiac” by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
  • 1846
    The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 1864
    American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
  • 1920
    Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
  • 1946
    Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
  • 1992
    The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49).
  • 1992
    Three employees at a McDonald’s Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first “fast-food murder” in Canada.
  • 1998
    Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
  • 1999
    Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Who were born on May 7?

  • 1740
    Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
  • 1826
    Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906)
  • 1882
    Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960)
  • 1892
    Archibald MacLeish, American Librarian of Congress (d. 1982)
  • 1933
    Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer
  • 1951
    Robert Hegyes, American actor
  • 1953
    Ian McKay, British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982)
  • 1968
    Traci Lords, American actress
  • 1972
    Frank Trigg, American mixed martial artist
  • 1987
    Michael Maidens, English footballer (d. 2007)

Who died on May 7?

  • 1523
    Franz von Sickingen, German soldier (b. 1481)
  • 1840
    Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
  • 1868
    Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
  • 1896
    H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett), American serial killer (b. 1860)
  • 1922
    Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
  • 1940
    George Lansbury, British Labour Party leader (b. 1859)
  • 1986
    Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 1987
    Colin Blakely, British actor (b. 1930)
  • 1998
    Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)
  • 2006
    Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918)

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