What Day of the Week

May 15, 2021 is the 135^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1793

  Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted .
• 1796

  First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
• 1817

  Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1849

  Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
• 1864

  American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
• 1958

  The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
• 1963

  Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
• 1969

  People’s Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
• 1970

  Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
• 1987

  The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.

• 1915

  Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)
• 1923

  John Lanchbery, British composer (d. 2003)
• 1936

  Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
• 1938

  Mireille Darc, French actress
• 1940

  Roger Ailes, American businessman
• 1969

  Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer
• 1969

  Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1974

  Ahmet Zappa, American musician
• 1975

  Ray Lewis, American football player
• 1978

  Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress

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