You’re probably looking for a day of the week calculator. Chances are you have a date in mind and you want to find out what day of the week it was. You’re in luck! This nifty little website will help you solve your problem. Let’s face it, it’s not easy to find an old calendar just to find out what day of the week a particular day is.
It’s also possible that you might be asking the question: “What day of the week was I born?” Whatever your reason is, you’ll get the days of the week you are looking for.
As an added bonus, this website utilizes pages from Wikipedia to extract historical events and birthday of popular individuals. This is useful if you’re creating a scrapbook and you want to know some important events that took place about a particular day.
Let us begin with today’s date. You may also enter a specific day using the form on the sidebar.
May 17: Day Of The Week
May 17, 2012 is the 138th day of the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 228 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.
Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
| May | ||||||
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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
May 17 Historical Events
- 1521 –Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
- 1536 –George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
- 1809 –Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
- 1983 –The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world’s largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer’s Freedom of Information Act request.
- 1984 –Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a “monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend,” sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
Who were born on May 17?
- 1904 –Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
- 1953 –Luca Prodan, Italian-Scottish singer and musician (Sumo, Hurlingham Reggae Band)
- 1956 –Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer
- 1980 –Davor Džalto, Serbian/Croatian art historian
- 1985 –Matt Ryan, American football player
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