On This Day: 7 May

7 May in Indian history

• 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.India
• 2023A tourist boat capsized, killing at least 22 people in Tanur, India.India

7 May in world history

• 2009Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
• 1999Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
• 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.
• 1960Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• 1948The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
• 1940A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill.
• 1937Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
• 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.
• 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 the anniversary of thi
• 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: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
• 1544During the Rough Wooing, an English army carried out the Burning of Edinburgh.
• 1487Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
• 1274In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope.
• 351Jews in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina rebelled against the rule of Constantius Gallus, caesar of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Born on 7 May

• 1989Earl Thomas, American football player
• 1968Lisa Raitt, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Canadian Minister of Transport
• 1932Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (died 1997)
• 1919Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (died 1952)
• 1909Dorothy Sunrise Lorentino, Native American teacher (died 2005)
• 1861Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)India

Died on 7 May

• 2010Wally Hickel, American politician, Governor of Alaska and Secretary of the Interior (born 1919)
• 1925William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (born 1851)
• 1924Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (born 1897/1898)India
• 1685Bajo Pivljanin (born 1630)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 7 May in history?

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. 2023: A tourist boat capsized, killing at least 22 people in Tanur, India. 2009: Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant. 1999: Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

What happened on 7 May in Indian history?

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. 2023: A tourist boat capsized, killing at least 22 people in Tanur, India.

Which famous people were born on 7 May?

Earl Thomas, American football player (1989); Lisa Raitt, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Canadian Minister of Transport (1968); Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (died 1997) (1932); Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (died 1952) (1919).

Which day is observed on 7 May?

Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan); Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam); Radio Day, commemorating the work of Alexander Popov (Russia, Bulgaria).