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 24: Day Of The Week
May 24, 2013 is the 144th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 221 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.
Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
| May | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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 24 Historical Events
- 1595 –Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
- 1621 –The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
- 1901 –Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
- 1930 –Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
- 1960 –Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
Who were born on May 24?
- 1905 –Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1955 –Rosanne Cash, American singer
- 1960 –Guy Fletcher, British keyboardist (Dire Straits)
- 1973 –Dermot O'Leary, English television presenter
- 1975 –Yannis Goumas, Greek footballer
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