What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 1310

  In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.
• 1745

  War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
• 1820

  Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
• 1846

  President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War
• 1907

  32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, 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.
• 1960

  In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
• 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.
• 1997

  Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

• 1763

  János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
• 1827

  Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
• 1852

  Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918)
• 1907

  Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
• 1930

  Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
• 1941

  Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)
• 1953

  David Gest, American television producer
• 1961

  Luis Felipe, Cuban gangster
• 1968

  Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
• 1978

  Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress

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