This is a list of selected May 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.
Please note:
- Events listed on the Main Page are selected based on article quality and to provide a diverse range of topics, rather than solely on the importance or significance of the events.
- Only four or five events are featured each day; therefore, not all important or significant events can be included.
- An event is generally excluded if it is already the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
To report an error in content currently on the Main Page, see Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors. If a listed event is inaccurate, please first seek consensus and update the corresponding article before making changes here.
Staging area
Images
Use only ONE image at a time
Ludwig van Beethoven- Alexander Stepanovich Popov (requires undeletion)
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
1864 lithograph of the City of Adelaide
Maximilien Robespierre
Chief Pontiac
Neanderthal skull uncovered at Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar
border=yes
.jpg)
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Radio Day in Bulgaria and Russia | no footnotes |
| 1274 – The first session of the Second Council of Lyon was held to discuss, among other issues, the pledge by Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos to end the Great Schism and reunite the Eastern church with the West. | refimprove section |
| 1718 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and the Mississippi Company founded New Orleans, naming the French colonial settlement after Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. | unreferenced section |
| 1824 – Ludwig van Beethoven's last complete symphony, the Symphony No. 9 in D minor, which incorporates part of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" in its fourth movement, premiered at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. | unreferenced sections |
| 1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide was launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. | lots of {{cn}} tags (9) |
| 1864 – The oldest surviving weekly newspaper in the United States, the Cambridge Chronicle, was first published. | unreferenced section |
| 1915 – First World War: The German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank the ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 on board. | refimprove section |
| 1920 – Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by signing the Treaty of Moscow, only to invade the country six months later. | unreferenced section |
| 1920 – Polish–Soviet War: During the Kiev Offensive, Polish troops, with the help of a symbolic Ukrainian force, captured Kiev, only to be driven out by the Soviet Red Army counter-offensive a month later. | lots of {{cn}} tags (13) |
| 1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, was first published by Geoffrey Dummer. | refimprove section, outdated |
| 2007 – A team of Israeli archaeologists discovered the tomb of Herod the Great, the 1st century BC ruler of Judea. | refimprove section |
| Mary of Modena (d. 1718) | refimprove section (Ancestry) |
Eligible
- 1685 – Great Turkish War: Ottoman forces prevailed over Venetian irregulars in the Battle on Vrtijeljka.
- 1763 – Pontiac of the Odawa Native American tribe led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.
- 1895 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his radio receiver, refined as a lightning detector, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.
- 1931 – New York City Police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley that was witnessed by 15,000 bystanders before he finally surrendered.
- 1946 – Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, which later changed its name to Sony.
- 1999 – During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
- 2009 – Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
- Born/died: Ladislaus III of Hungary (d. 1205) | Bajo Pivljanin (d. 1685) | David Hume (b. 1711) | William Bainbridge (b. 1774) | Tom Norman (b. 1860) | Albert Ball (d. 1917) | Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949)
Notes
- Hagia Sophia is saved for December 27
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu is saved for March 13
- João Bernardo Vieira is saved for March 2
May 7: National Day of Prayer in the United States (2020)
Northern facade of Stockholm Palace
- 1697 – The 13th-century Tre Kronor castle in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace (pictured) were presented within the year.
- 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
- 1940 – A three-day debate began in the British House of Commons, which resulted in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill.
- 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.
- 2010 – A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
- Ibn Hisham (d. 833)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (b. 1840)
- Rendra Karno (b. 1920)