About May 7
May 7, 2025 is the 127th 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.
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Taurus is the sun 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.
What Happened On May 7
- 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.
- 1429 –Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years’ War.
- 1664 –Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles.
- 1763 –Indian Wars: Pontiac’s Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the “Conspiracy of Pontiac” by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
- 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.
- 1846 –The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 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.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco’s forces.
- 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.
- 1946 –Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
- 1954 –Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
- 1974 –West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
- 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.
- 1999 –In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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