What Day of the Week

May 15, 2020 was the 136^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 230 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 1567

  Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
• 1648

  The Treaty of Westphalia signed.
• 1701

  The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
• 1776

  American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
• 1792

  War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
• 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.
• 1905

  Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acre, in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• 1929

  A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
• 1934

  Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
• 1940

  USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus.

• 1892

  Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969)
• 1903

  Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
• 1924

  Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)
• 1944

  Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
• 1948

  Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
• 1950

  Nicholas Hammond, American actor
• 1957

  Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque statesman
• 1965

  André Abujamra, Brazilian film score composer
• 1974

  Shiney Ahuja, Indian actor
• 1976

  Tyler Walker, American baseball player

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