May 7th (1998) was a Thursday. It's the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 238 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 7th May, 1998
» Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion United States dollar named USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
May 7th Famous Deaths for 1998
» Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
» Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
May 7th Holidays in History
» Christian Feast Day:
» Gisela of Hungary
» Acacius of Byzantium
» Agostino Roscelli
» Harriet Starr Cannon (Episcopal Church (USA))
» Flavia Domitilla (saint) e.g Flavia Domitilla
» John of Beverley
» Stanislaus of Szczepanów e.g Stanislaus (Roman martyrology)
» May 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Public holidays in Kazakhstan known as Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)
» Public holidays in Vietnam known as Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)