What Day of the Week

May 1, 2021 was the 121^st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 244 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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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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• 1576

  Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1753

  Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
• 1759

  Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
• 1862

  American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture of New Orleans.
• 1884

  Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• 1894

  Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
• 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.
• 1927

  The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
• 1978

  Japan’s Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
• 1982

  The 1982 World’s Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.

• 1769

  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852)
• 1885

  Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor, painter (d. 1973)
• 1917

  John Beradino, American actor and baseball player (d. 1996)
• 1919

  Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Prime Minister of Morocco
• 1924

  Karel Kachyňa, Czech film director (d. 2004)
• 1956

  Phil Foglio, American cartoonist and comic book artist
• 1966

  Olaf Thon, German football player
• 1967

  Tim McGraw, American musician
• 1968

  Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
• 1988

  Anushka Sharma, Indian actress and model

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