At A Glance

7 May 2023 at a glance

Day of the week
7 May 2023 was a Sunday.
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Last Night” by Morgan Wallen.
Top Film of 2023
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
Star sign
The star sign for 7 May is Taurus.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 7 May 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
Birthstone
The birthstone for May is Emerald.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 7 May 2023 was Waning 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 May 7

  • 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 2023 in the United States

A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

  • March 12 – The 95th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's Everything Everywhere All at Once lead the nominations with eleven. The film wins seven of those awards, including Best Picture.
  • April 20 – Elon Musk's SpaceX launches its first test flight of Starship. The device explodes shortly after launch.
  • July 5 – Meta Platforms launches Threads as a direct competitor to Twitter.

Life in the US in 2023

President

Joe Biden

Gas (per gallon)

$3.53

Loaf of Bread

$2.96

Average House

$412,300

Weekly Wage

$1,108

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