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, 29,109,600 minutes 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

• 558 –
  In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
• 1274 –
  In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
• 1718 –
  The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
• 1763 –
  Indian Wars: Pontiac’s Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the “Conspiracy of Pontiac” by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
• 1847 –
  The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1915 –
  World War I: German submarine SMU U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• 1960 –
  Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• 1998 –
  Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• 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.
• 2002 –
  A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

Who were born on May 7?

• 1909 –
  Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991)
• 1950 –
  Randall ‘Tex’Cobb, American boxer and actor
• 1955 –
  Kevin Reed, American theologian
• 1956 –
  Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1958 –
  Mark G. Kuzyk, American physicist
• 1962 –
  Tony Campbell, American basketball player
• 1964 –
  Ronnie Harmon, American football player
• 1970 –
  Kim Su-ro, South Korean actor
• 1984 –
  May7ven, Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1987 –
  Serge Gakpé, Togolese footballer

Who died on May 7?

• 1617 –
  David Fabricius, German astronomer (b. 1564)
• 1667 –
  Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (b. 1616)
• 1840 –
  Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
• 1896 –
  H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett), American serial killer (b. 1860)
• 1922 –
  Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
• 2002 –
  Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974)
• 2005 –
  Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
• 2006 –
  Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918)
• 2007 –
  Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
• 2011 –
  Allyson Hennessy, Trindadian television presenter