7 May 1940
- Dutch Army suspended all leaves. ww2dbase [TH]
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Neville Chamberlain faced criticism during the Norway Debate. ww2dbase [Neville Chamberlain | CPC]
- German Luftwaffe aircraft attacked British cruiser HMS Aurora off Narvik, Norway at 1641 hours, putting A and B turrets out of action and killing 7 Royal Marines. ww2dbase [Invasion of Denmark and Norway | CPC]
- Adolf Hitler pushed the decision date for the invasion of France to the following day. ww2dbase [Invasion of France and the Low Countries | CPC]
- US President Roosevelt ordered the US Navy Pacific Fleet to remain in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii indefinitely as a deterrent to Japanese expansionism. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Franklin Roosevelt | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Kliment Voroshilov stepped down as the People's Commissar for Defense of the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Kliment Voroshilov | Moscow | CPC]
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Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
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