What Day of the Week

May 1, 2020 was the 122^nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 244 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1328

  Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
• 1884

  Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• 1884

  Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
• 1898

  Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay – the United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
• 1940

  The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
• 1941

  World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
• 1944

  200 Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens as reprisals for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi
• 1947

  Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano; 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
• 1960

  Cold War: U-2 incident – Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
• 2006

  The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.

• 1594

  John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
• 1769

  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852)
• 1827

  Jules Breton, French painter (d. 1906)
• 1852

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934)
• 1917

  Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress
• 1930

  Richard Riordan, American politician, former mayor of Los Angeles
• 1940

  Bobbie Ann Mason, American novelist and literary critic
• 1940

  Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
• 1960

  Steve Cauthen, American jockey
• 1987

  Glen Coffee, American football player

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