What day of the week was May 7, 1840?

The day of the week May 7th, 1840 fell on was a Thursday.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky the Russian composer and educator (d. 1893) was born on 07 May in 1840.

Caspar David Friedrich the German painter (b. 1774) died on this day in 1840.

The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez the Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.