What Day of the Week

May 11, 2019 is the 131^st day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1880

  Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California
• 1891

  The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
• 1924

  Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
• 1927

  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
• 1949

  Israel joins the United Nations.
• 1953

  The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
• 1970

  The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
• 1973

  Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
• 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.
• 1998

  India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.

• 1571

  Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
• 1733

  Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV of France (d. 1799)
• 1811

  Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai/American conjoined twins (d. 1874)
• 1824

  Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
• 1835

  Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905)
• 1870

  Otto von Friesen, Swedish runologist and linguist (d. 1942)
• 1903

  Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1946

  Robert Jarvik, American physician and inventor
• 1974

  Benoît Magimel, French actor
• 1984

  Gerald Clayton, Dutch/American jazz pianist

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