7 May
Notable Births
Ashlyn Krueger
b. 2004
American tennis player (born 2004)
Minji (singer)
b. 2004
South Korean singer (born 2004)
Andrew Barth Feldman
b. 2002
American actor and singer (born 2002)
Tommy Fury
b. 1999
British professional boxer and reality television personality (born 1999)
Cody Gakpo
b. 1999
Dutch footballer (born 1999)
MrBeast
b. 1998
American YouTuber (born 1998)
Dani Olmo
b. 1998
Spanish footballer (born 1998)
Jesse Puljujärvi
b. 1998
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1998)
Daria Kasatkina
b. 1997
Australian tennis player (born 1997)
Youri Tielemans
b. 1997
Belgian footballer (born 1997)
Cameron Young
b. 1997
American professional golfer (born 1997)
Faker (gamer)
b. 1996
South Korean professional esports player (born 1996)
Seko Fofana
b. 1995
Footballer (born 1995)
Will Ospreay
b. 1993
English professional wrestler (born 1993)
Ajla Tomljanović
b. 1993
Croatian-born Australian tennis player (born 1993)
Alexander Ludwig
b. 1992
Canadian actor (born 1992)
Sydney Leroux
b. 1990
American soccer player (born 1990)
Traci Lords
b. 1968
American actress (born 1968)
Eva Perón
b. 1919
Argentine actress and politician (1919–1952)
Johannes Brahms
b. 1833
German composer and pianist (1833–1897)
Notable Deaths
Steve Albini
d. 2024
American musician and audio engineer (1962–2024)
Aase Foss Abrahamsen
d. 2023
Norwegian children's writer (1930–2023)
Frank DiPascali
d. 2015
American fraudster (1956–2015)
Neville McNamara
d. 2014
Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Defence Force chief
Colin Pillinger
d. 2014
English planetary scientist
Dick Welteroth
d. 2014
American baseball player (1927–2014)
Ferruccio Mazzola
d. 2013
Italian footballer (1945–2013)
George Sauer Jr.
d. 2013
American football player (1943–2013)
United Airlines Flight 232
d. 2012
1989 aviation accident in Iowa
Seve Ballesteros
d. 2011
Spanish professional golfer (1957–2011)
Willard Boyle
d. 2011
Canadian applied physicist (1924–2011)
Big George
d. 2011
British musician and composer (1957–2011)
Victor Nosach
d. 2011
Soviet historian (1929-2011)
Adele Mara
d. 2010
American actress (1923–2010)
Wally Hickel
d. 2010
American politician (1919–2010)
David Mellor (designer)
d. 2009
English designer and manufacturer (1930–2009)
Danny Ozark
d. 2009
American baseball coach and manager (1923–2009)
Isabella Blow
d. 2007
English magazine editor (1958–2007)
Diego Corrales
d. 2007
American boxer
Octavian Paler
d. 2007
Romanian writer and politician (1926–2007)
On This Day in History
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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.
Indian Army
2023
Tanur boat disaster: At least 22 people are killed when a boat carrying tourists capsizes in Tanur, Malappuram, Kerala, India.
2023 Tanur boat disaster
2004
American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamist militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
Killing of Nick Berg
2002
An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.
EgyptAir Flight 843
2002
A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
China Northern Airlines Flight 6136
2000
Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
Vladimir Putin
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.
Pope John Paul II
1999
Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
Kosovo War
1999
In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
Guinea-Bissau
1998
Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
Mercedes-Benz
1994
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
Edvard Munch
1992
Michigan 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.
Michigan
1992
Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
Space Shuttle program
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.
McDonald's
1991
A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.
Bright Sparklers fireworks disaster
1986
Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
Patrick Morrow
1964
Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773
1960
Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
Cold War
1954
Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
First Indochina War
1952
The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
Integrated circuit