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7 May 2017 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 7 May 2017 was a Sunday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “I'm the One” by DJ Khaled ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne.
- Top Film of 2017
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2017 was Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 7 May is Taurus.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 7 May 2017 fell in the Year of the Rooster.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for May is Emerald.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 7 May 2017 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 7 May
- 1994 Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
- 1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
- 1999 Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
- 1999 In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
- 2000 Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
Famous people born on 7 May
- MrBeast, American YouTuber (born 1998)
- Jake Bongiovi, American model and actor (born 2002)
- Youri Tielemans, Belgian footballer (born 1997)
- Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer (born 1999)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2017 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2017 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 6 February – The Queen commemorates her Sapphire Jubilee.
- 2 March – New elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are held. The Democratic Unionist Party loses ten seats, while Sinn Féin loses one seat.
- 29 March – The United Kingdom invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, beginning the formal EU withdrawal process.
Life in 2017
Prime Minister
Theresa May
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£3.55
Loaf of Bread
£1.48
Average House
£226,441
Weekly Wage
£810.00
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