What Day of the Week

May 12, 2019 was the 132^nd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 233 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 1328

  Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
• 1588

  French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
• 1780

  American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
• 1821

  The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson’s XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton’s defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
• 1865

  American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
• 1937

  George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
• 1949

  The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
• 1949

  The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1958

  A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.

• 1626

  Louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (d. 1705)
• 1825

  Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French adventurer in Araucania and Patagonia (d. 1878)
• 1874

  Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (d. 1929)
• 1907

  Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1942

  Michel Fugain, French singer and songwriter
• 1961

  Paul Begala, American political commentator
• 1962

  Emilio Estevez, American actor
• 1970

  Samantha Mathis, American actress
• 1975

  Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1982

  David Thaxton, British stage actor and singer

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