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This day in history: 7 May

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287 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 7 May.
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2025: The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Agathius of Byzantium

Christian feast day: Agostino Roscelli

Christian feast day: Anthony of Kiev

Christian feast day: Flavia Domitilla

Christian feast day: Gisela of Hungary

Christian feast day: Harriet Starr Cannon (Episcopal Church (USA))

Christian feast day: John of Beverley

Christian feast day: May 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Pope Benedict II

Christian feast day: Rose Venerini

Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)

Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)

Events

2025The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

2023Tanur boat disaster: At least 22 people are killed when a boat carrying tourists capsizes in Tanur, Malappuram, Kerala, India.

2004American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamist militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.

2002A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

2002An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.

2000Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.

1999In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.

1999Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

1999Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

1998Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

1994Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.

1992Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.

1992Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.

1992Three 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.

1991A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.

1986Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.

1964Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.

1960Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

1954Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).

1952The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

1948The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.

1946Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.

1945World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

1942World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets f

1940World War II: 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.

1937Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.

1931The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.

1930The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.

1920Polish–Soviet War: Kyiv offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.

1920Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

1915The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.

1915World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.

1895In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union th

1864American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.

1864The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.

1840The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.

1832Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London.

1824World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.

1798French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses.

1794French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

Born on this day

2004Ashlyn Krueger, American tennis player

2004Minji, South Korean singer

2002Andrew Barth Feldman, American actor and singer

2002Jake Bongiovi, American model and actor

1999Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer

1999Tommy Fury, English boxer

1998Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer

1998Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player

1998MrBeast, American YouTuber

1997Cameron Young, American golfer

1997Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player

1997Youri Tielemans, Belgian footballer

1996Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, South Korean League of Legends pro gamer

1995Seko Fofana, Ivorian international footballer

1993Ajla Tomljanovic, Australian tennis player

1993Will Ospreay, English wrestler

1992Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor and musician

1990Sydney Leroux, Canadian-American footballer

1989Earl Thomas, American football player

1987Aidy Bryant, American actress and comedian

1987Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer

1986Matt Helders, English drummer

1985J Balvin, Colombian singer-songwriter and producer

1984Alex Smith, American football player

1984James Loney, American baseball player

1984Kevin Owens, Canadian wrestler

1979Katie Douglas, American basketball player

1978Dette Escudero, Filipino politician

1978Shawn Marion, American basketball player

1977Elton Flatley, Australian rugby player

1976Ayelet Shaked, former Israeli Minister of Justice

1976Calvin Booth, American basketball player and executive

1976Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2005)

1976Stacey Jones, New Zealand rugby league player and coach

1975Martina Topley-Bird, English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist

1974Breckin Meyer, American actor, writer, and producer

1972Frank Trigg, American mixed martial artist and wrestler

1971Billy Moore, Australian rugby league player

1971Dave Karpa, Canadian ice hockey player

1971Thomas Piketty, French economist

Died on this day

2024Steve Albini, American musician, record producer, audio engineer, and music journalist (born 1962)

2023Aase Foss Abrahamsen, Norwegian writer (born 1930)

2015Frank DiPascali, American businessman (born 1956)

2015John Dixon, Australian-American author and illustrator (born 1929)

2014Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (born 1943)

2014Dick Welteroth, American baseball player (born 1927)

2014Neville McNamara, Australian air marshal (born 1923)

2013Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1948)

2013George Sauer, Jr., American football player (born 1943)

2012Dennis E. Fitch, American captain and pilot (born 1942)

2012Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist and politician (born 1943)

2012Sammy Barr, Scottish trade union leader (born 1931)

2011Big George, English songwriter, producer, and radio host (born 1957)

2011Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (born 1957)

2011Victor Nosach, Soviet historian (born 1929)

2011Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)

2010Adele Mara, American actress, singer and dancer (born 1923)

2010Wally Hickel, American politician, Governor of Alaska and Secretary of the Interior (born 1919)

2009Danny Ozark, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1923)

2009David Mellor, English designer (born 1930)

2007Diego Corrales, American boxer (born 1977)

2007Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (born 1958)

2007Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1926)

2007Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader, founded the Nation of Yahweh (born 1935)

2006Joan C. Edwards, American singer and philanthropist (born 1918)

2006Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (born 1943)

2005Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (born 1980)

2005Peter Rodino, American captain and politician (born 1909)

2005Tristan Egolf, American author and activist (born 1971)

2004Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist (born 1956)

Quote of the day

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms; you will be able to use them better when you are older.”

Seneca

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