Wednesday May 15, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

May 15: Day of the Week

May 15, 2024 is the 136th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

May 15 Historical Event(s)

1701
The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1755
Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
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.
1945
World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
1948
Following the demise of the British Mandate of Palestine, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1951
The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
1960
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
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.
1972
The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1997
The United States government acknowledges the existence of the “Secret War” in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other “Secret War” veterans.

Who were born on May 15?

1914
Norrie Paramor, British arranger, conductor (d. 1979)
1916
Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress
1923
Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003)
1925
Roy Stewart, Jamacian-born British actor and fitness industry figure (d. 2008)
1936
Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-born actress
1943
David Cronenberg, Canadian screenwriter and film director
1967
Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
1970
Frank de Boer, Dutch football player
1978
Krissy Taylor, American model (d. 1995)
1982
Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer

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