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May 21: Day of the Week
May 21, 2024 was the 142nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 224 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mardi.
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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 21 Historical Event(s)
1758
Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
1809
The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
1851
Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1863
Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1894
The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1934
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1936
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan’s most notorious scandals.
1946
Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1972
Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
2001
French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
Who were born on May 21?
1850
Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian vulcanologist (d. 1914)
1884
Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
1901
Horace Heidt, American band leader (d. 1986)
1912
John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
1945
Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
1947
Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
1964
Danny Bailey, English footballer
1979
Gaspard Augé, French DJ
1979
Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician
1985
Isa Guha, English cricketer
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