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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