What Day of the Week

May 15, 2023 was the 135^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 230 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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.

• 1252

  Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
• 1718

  James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun.
• 1836

  Francis Baily observes “Baily’s beads” during an annular eclipse.
• 1862

  President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
• 1904

  The Russian minelayer Amur laid a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan’s battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and “Yashima”.
• 1911

  In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an “unreasonable” monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
• 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.
• 1974

  Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab terrorist attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
• 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.

• 1856

  Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer and guide (d. 1917)
• 1859

  Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
• 1890

  Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)
• 1948

  Kathleen Sebelius, American politician and Obama Administration figure
• 1967

  Laura Hillenbrand, American author
• 1975

  Peter Iwers, Swedish Musician
• 1978

  Amy Chow, American gymnast
• 1978

  Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress
• 1978

  Dwayne DeRosario, Canadian footballer
• 1979

  Chris Masoe, New Zealander rugby player

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