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 22: Day Of The Week
May 22, 2013 is the 142nd day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.
Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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| 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 | |
Gemini 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 22 Historical Events
- 1254 –Serbian King Stephen Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
- 1377 –Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
- 1455 –Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
- 2002 –American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Who were born on May 22?
- 1724 –Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
- 1926 –Peter Wilson, English Polymath (d. 2009)
- 1934 –Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001)
- 1953 –Paul Mariner, English footballer & football manager
- 1975 –Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer
Surprise! You are very special to someone. If that person wants to give you a gift, which one will you choose: boat tours, boxes of chocolate or training shoes?
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