What Day of the Week

May 15, 2019 was the 135^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 230 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1252

  Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
• 1618

  Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
• 1792

  War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
• 1858

  Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
• 1919

  The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
• 1940

  USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus.
• 1951

  The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
• 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.
• 1988

  Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
• 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.

• 1608

  René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
• 1911

  Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
• 1914

  Norrie Paramor, British arranger, conductor (d. 1979)
• 1918

  Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (d. 2008)
• 1936

  Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist
• 1940

  Roger Ailes, American businessman
• 1970

  Rod Smith, American football player
• 1974

  Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player
• 1978

  Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress
• 1982

  Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)

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