What Day of the Week

May 10, 2020 was the 131^st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 235 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 70

  Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city’s Third Wall to the northwest.
• 1534

  Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
• 1774

  Louis XVI becomes King of France.
• 1775

  American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
• 1824

  The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
• 1864

  American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment “Attack-in-depth” assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general.
• 1877

  Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu’s Declaration of Independence. This act is recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
• 1893

  The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
• 1908

  Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1994

  Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.

• 1641

  Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
• 1727

  Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (d. 1781)
• 1788

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)
• 1909

  Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
• 1934

  Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
• 1938

  Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis champion
• 1943

  Richard Darman, American economist
• 1954

  F. Charles Brunicardi, American surgeon
• 1965

  Rony Seikaly, Lebanese basketball player
• 1977

  Keith Murray, American singer (We Are Scientists)

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