What Day of the Week

May 12, 2021 is the 132^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 233 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1264

  The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.
• 1328

  Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
• 1743

  Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1797

  First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
• 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.
• 1935

  Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
• 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.
• 1982

  During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an “agent of Moscow”.
• 2003

  The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.

• 1910

  Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
• 1910

  Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
• 1921

  Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
• 1939

  Reg Gasnier, Australian Rugby League footballer
• 1939

  Ron Ziegler, U.S. White House Press Secretary (d. 2003)
• 1979

  Callum Chambers, Australian rules footballer
• 1979

  Robert Key, English cricketer
• 1982

  David Thaxton, British stage actor and singer
• 1985

  Jeroen Simaeys, Belgian footballer
• 1987

  Kieron Pollard, West Indies Cricketer

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