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May 15: Day of the Week
May 15, 2024 is the 136th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of the 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.
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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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 15 Historical Event(s)
1252
Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1618
Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1755
Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
1791
Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1849
Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
1850
The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
1932
The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
1951
The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
1970
Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
2008
California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state’s own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
Who were born on May 15?
1905
Abraham Zapruder, American businessman and John F. Kennedy assassination figure (d. 1970)
1909
Clara Solovera, Chilean folk musician (d. 1992)
1915
Hilda Bernstein, British-born South African author (d. 2006)
1923
John Lanchbery, British composer (d. 2003)
1939
Dorothy Shirley, British athlete
1945
Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
1960
Rob Bowman, American film director
1975
Ray Lewis, American football player
1978
Amy Chow, American gymnast
1982
Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
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Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters HDOEJWRVUJUW? Check your answers here: Unscramble words HDOEJWRVUJUW. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
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