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May 7 is the 127nd day of the year (128rd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 238 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

Law No 7 of 1934 May 2428 on the Works that Nafia Civil Servants and Their Employees Leaving the Service Cannot Do
7 May 2009 Transport Minister Binali Yildirim watched the 'Revolution Cars' movie along with the railway staff.

Events

558 – The dome of Hagia Sophia collapsed. Justinian I ordered the dome to be repaired.
1429 – Jeanne d'Arc takes Orléans from the English; this marks a turn in the course of the Hundred Years' War.
1682 - Peter the Mad becomes Tsar of Russia.
1824 – Beethoven, who lost his hearing, presented the 9th symphony for the first time in Vienna.
1830 – The Ottoman-American Trade and Friendship Treaty was signed.
1832 - The Kingdom of Greece is established.
1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1901 – Clashes broke out in Saint Petersburg between workers and the Tsarist Police and military units. This event is known as the Obukhov Defense.
1915 – The British transatlantic Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. Of the 20 passengers on board, which sank in 1959 minutes, 1198 died. This event turned the USA against Germany.
1921 – The Union of Turkish Teachers and Teachers' Associations was established.
1924 – Cumhuriyet newspaper began to be published in Istanbul.
1925 – Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın was sentenced to life imprisonment in Çorum by the Ankara Independence Court.
1945 – II. World War II: German General Alfred Jodl signs in Reims the terms of Germany's unregistered surrender to the Allies. The document went into effect the next day.
1954 – In Vietnam, Viet Minh forces defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu.
1958 – Ulus newspaper writer Şinasi Nahit Berker was imprisoned for 8 months.
1973 – Muş Deputy Nermin Çiftçi was elected as the first female Deputy Speaker of the Parliament.
1978 - Environmentalists occupy a nuclear power plant construction site in Scotland.
1979 - Iran's new leader, Khomeini, lowered the age of marriage to 13 for girls and 15 for boys.
1981 – Left-wing militants Seyit Konuk, İbrahim Ethem Coşkun and Necati Vardar, who killed the contractor Nuri Yapıcı and MHP İzmir provincial secretary pharmacist Turan İbrahim in 1980, were sentenced to death.
1983 – A fire broke out in the tea room of the Washington Hotel in Laleli, Istanbul, as a result of an explosion of cylinder gas. 37 people died, mostly Greek and Australian.
1988 – Oral Çelik, who was mentioned in the murder of Abdi İpekçi and the Assassination of the Pope, was caught in France.
1990 – Star 1 television of the Magic Box company, the first private television channel, started broadcasting.
1995 – Right-wing candidate Jacques Chirac was elected President of France.
1997 – Yenikapı Mevlevihanesi burned down in Istanbul.
1998 – Apple launches the iMac.
1998 - Mercedes-Benz bought Chrysler for $40 billion and Daimler Chrysler emerged.

Births

165 – Julia Maesa, daughter of Julius Bassianus, priest of the sun god Heliogabalus and chief god of the city of Emesa (present-day Homs) in the Roman province of Syria, and grandmother of the Roman Emperor Elagabalus (d. 224)
1553 – Albrecht Friedrich, Duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death (d. 1618)
1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (d. 1776)
1745 – Carl Stamitz, German composer (d. 1801)
1748 Olympe de Gouges, French feminist writer (d. 1793)
1833 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian musician (d. 1893)
1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1892 – Josip Broz Tito, President and Field Marshal of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (d. 1961)
1911 – Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish writer (author of The Hababam Class) (d. 1993)
1919 – Eva Perón, Argentine politician and wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (d. 1952)
1923 – Abdurrahman Palay, Turkish theater and film actor, voice actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1923 – Anne Baxter, American actress and winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (d. 1985)
1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter and novelist (d. 2013)
1939 – Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 2022)
1939 – Ruggero Deodato, Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2022)
1939 – Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician (d. 2018)
1943 – Peter Carey, Australian author who won the 2001 Man Booker Prize
1946 – Michael Rosen, English children's novelist, poet, and author of 140 books
1951 – Sevim Cizer, Turkish ceramic artist
1953 – Müslüm Gürses, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2013)
1956 Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch politician
1956 – Parla Şenol, Turkish cinema and theater actress
1965 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional American wrestler (d. 1999)
1965 – Norman Whiteside, former Northern Irish footballer
1966 – Jes Høgh, Danish football player
1967 – Martin Bryant, Australian killer
1968 – Traci Lords, American actress, producer, porn star, writer, director, and musician
1971 – Cemil Demirbakan, Turkish musician and former soloist of Yüksek Sadakat group
1971 – Thomas Piketty, French economist
1972 – Peter Dubovský, former Slovak football player (d. 2000)
1973 – Paolo Savoldelli, Italian former road bike racer
1974 – Ian Pearce, English former international footballer
1974 – Dave Steele, American racer (d. 2017)
1976 – Berke Hatipoğlu, Turkish musician, composer, lyricist and architect (guitarist of Redd band)
1976 – Dave van den Bergh, Dutch football player
1976 – Ayelet Shaked, Israeli computer engineer, politician, and minister
1977 – Marko Milic, Slovenian basketball player
1978 – Shawn Marion, American basketball player
1981 – Musa al-Omar, Syrian journalist
1984 - Kevin Steen, Canadian professional wrestler
1987 – Jeremy Menez, French football player
1995 – Seko Fofana, French football player
1998 – MrBeast, American YouTuber, businessman and philanthropist
1999 – Simay Barlas, Turkish actor

Deaths

833 - Ibn Hisham, Arab historian, language and genealogy scholar
973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)
1014 – III. Bagrat, Georgian king of the Bagrationi dynasty (b. 960)
1166 – Guglielmo I, king of Sicily (b. 1120)
1539 – Guru Nanak Dev, first guru of the Sikhs (b. 1469)
1617 – David Fabricius, Frieze Amateur astronomer, cartographer, and theologian (b. 1564)
1682 – III. Fyodor Tsar of Russia (b. 1661)
1718 – Mary, II and VII. Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as second wife of James (1633-1701) (b.
1800 – Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)
1804 – Cezzar Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman Governor (b. 1708)
1825 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)
1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
1851 – Johann Benckiser, German businessman (b. 1782)
1899 – Esma Sultan, daughter of Abdulaziz (b. 1873)
1925 – William Lever, English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1851)
1940 – Louis Allyn, American chemist (b. 1874)
1940 – George Lansbury, British Labor Party leader (1931-1935) (b. 1859)
1941 – James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist, author, and folklorist (b. 1854)
1943 – Ali Fethi Okyar, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1880)
1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
1975 – Johannes Krüger, German architect (b. 1890)
1978 – Mort Weisinger, American magazine and comics editor (b. 1915)
1986 – Gaston Defferre, French politician (b. 1910)
1986 – Haldun Taner, Turkish writer (b. 1915)
1990 – Mustafa Hazım Dağlı, Turkish politician (b. 1906)
1998 – Allan MacLeod Cormack, South African-born American physicist (b. 1924)
2000 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
2010 – Adele Mara, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1923)
2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian Physicist (b. 1924)
2011 – Gunter Sachs, German photographer and writer (b. 1932)
2012 – Jules Bocandé, former Senegalese international football player and manager (b. 1958)
2012 – Eva Louise Rausing, American physiotherapist and businessperson (b. 1964)
2013 – Ray Harryhausen, American special effects artist and filmmaker (b. 1920)
2013 – Yalçın Kayışçı, Turkish painter and businessman (b. 1932)
2013 – Teri Moïse, American female singer (b. 1970)
2013 – Peter Rauhofer, Austrian-born American DJ, rapper and musician (b. 1965)
2013 – Gül Yalaz, Turkish cinema and TV series actress (b. 1939)
2013 – İbrahim Yazıcı, Turkish politician and 13th President of Bursaspor Club (b. 1948)
2014 – Anthony Genaro, American television, film and character actor (b. 1942)
2014 – Nazım Kıbrısî, Turkish mystic and sheikh of the Naqshbandi Order (b. 1922)
2017 – Levon Panos Dabagyan, Armenian-Turkish researcher-author (b. 1933)
2017 – Ghulam Reza Pahlavi is a member of the Pahlavi Dynasty that reigns in Iran. Son of Reza Shah and brother of Muhammad Reza Shah (b. 1923)
2017 – Hugh Thomas, British historian and academic (b. 1931)
2017 – Hubertus Antonius van der Aa, Dutch mycologist and botanist (b. 1935)
2018 – Cevat Ayhan, Turkish mechanical engineer and politician (b. 1938)
2018 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian director (b. 1931)
2018 – Maurane (birth name: Claudine Luypaerts), Francophone Belgian singer and actor (b. 1960)
2018 – Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, Kurdish-born Turkish poet and writer (leader of the Islamic Great Eastern Raiders Front (IBDA/C) organization) (b. 1950)
2018 – Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, Mexican physician and politician (b. 1924)
2019 – Vicente Yap Emano, Filipino politician (b. 1943)
2019 – Te Wharehuia Milroy, New Zealand academic and educator (b. 1937)
2019 – Adam Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player and coach (b. 1978)
2019 – Jean Vanier, Canadian Catholic thinker (b. 1928)
2019 – Michael Wessing, German javelin thrower (b. 1952)
2020 – Diana Margherita, Princess of Bourbon-Parma, princess and aristocrat, member of the Franco-Spanish Royal Family (b. 1932)
2020 – Daniel Cauchy, French actor and producer (b. 1930)
2020 – Joyce Davidson, Canadian and US TV presenter and producer (b. 1931)
2020 – İbrahim Gökçek, Turkish musician (b. 1980)
2020 – Daisy Lúcidi, Brazilian actress, dubbing artist and politician (b. 1929)
2020 – Richard Sala, American comics artist, writer, and animator (b. 1955)
2021 – Tawny Kitaen, American actress, model, comedian, and social media phenomenon (b. 1961)
2022 – Canan Arıtman, Turkish doctor and politician (b. 1950)

Holidays and special occasions

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