What Day of the Week

May 11, 2020 was the 132^nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 234 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 330

  Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
• 1502

  Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
• 1647

  Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
• 1820

  Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
• 1880

  Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California
• 1945

  World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill, is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of her crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
• 1953

  The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
• 1987

  In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
• 1995

  In New York City more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
• 1996

  After the aircraft’s departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.

• 1827

  Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
• 1895

  William Grant Still, American composer (d. 1978)
• 1909

  Ellis R. Dungan, American born Indian film director (d. 2001)
• 1914

  Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist (d. 1998)
• 1930

  Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
• 1950

  Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and author
• 1956

  Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
• 1958

  Christian Brando, American actor; son of Marlon Brando (d. 2008)
• 1963

  Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian
• 1975

  Francisco Cordero, Dominican baseball player

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