What Day of the Week

May 15, 2022 is the 135^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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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• 1602

  Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.
• 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).
• 1701

  The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
• 1800

  George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
• 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.
• 1905

  Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acre, in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• 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.
• 1932

  The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
• 1957

  At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
• 1958

  The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.

• 1817

  Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
• 1911

  Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978)
• 1915

  Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1918

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

  Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1954

  Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
• 1970

  Frank de Boer, Dutch football player
• 1970

  Martin Rossiter, British Musician
• 1980

  Josh Beckett, American baseball player
• 1986

  Adam Moffat, British football player

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