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| May 7th, 2007 | Event | The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered. |
| May 7th, 2002 | Event | A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people. |
| May 7th, 1999 | Event | Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054. |
| May 7th, 1999 | Event | A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure s family $25 million USD. |
| May 7th, 1999 | Event | 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. |
| May 7th, 1999 | Event | In Guinea-Bissau, President Joao Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup. |
| May 7th, 1998 | Event | Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history. |
| May 7th, 1992 | Event | 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. |
| May 7th, 1992 | Event | Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage (STS-49). |
| May 7th, 1992 | Event | 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. |
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