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 128^th 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, 476,400 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 ‘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.

May 7 Historical Events

• 1794 –
  French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
• 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.
• 1942 –
  During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• 1960 –
  Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• 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.
• 1974 –
  West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
• 2000 –
  Vladimir Putin is inaugurated president of Russia
• 2007 –
  Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
• 2009 –
  Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.

Who were born on May 7?

• 1700 –
  Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (d. 1772)
• 1909 –
  Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991)
• 1922 –
  Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer and photojournalist (d. 2007)
• 1939 –
  Ruud Lubbers, Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1953 –
  Ian McKay, British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982)
• 1955 –
  Ben Poquette, American basketball player
• 1958 –
  Mark G. Kuzyk, American physicist
• 1964 –
  Doug Benson, American comedian
• 1967 –
  Joe Rice, American politician
• 1980 –
  Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer

Who died on May 7?

• 973 –
  Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)
• 1427 –
  Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
• 1825 –
  Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)
• 1887 –
  C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
• 1940 –
  George Lansbury, British Labour Party leader (b. 1859)
• 1942 –
  Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)
• 1951 –
  Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1998 –
  Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
• 2005 –
  Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
• 2005 –
  Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971)