What Day of the Week

May 12, 2023 is the 132^nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 233 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 303

  Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.
• 1264

  The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.
• 1588

  French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
• 1864

  American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in “the Bloody Angle”.
• 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.
• 1870

  The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
• 1881

  In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• 1949

  The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
• 1981

  Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
• 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”.

• 1670

  King Augustus II of Poland (d. 1733)
• 1806

  Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (d. 1881)
• 1938

  Millie Perkins, American film actress
• 1963

  Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001)
• 1963

  Gavin Hood, South African film director
• 1975

  Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1975

  Lawrence Phillips, American football player
• 1978

  Wilfred Le Bouthillier, Canadian singer
• 1986

  Mouhamed Sene, Senegalese basketball player
• 1988

  Marky Cielo, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 2008)

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