What Day of the Week

May 16, 2023 is the 136^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1532

  Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
• 1771

  The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The “Regulators”, occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
• 1866

  The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
• 1868

  President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
• 1877

  May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
• 1891

  The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
• 1943

  Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
• 1953

  American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechslovakia.
• 1974

  Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
• 1983

  Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.

• 1710

  William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
• 1897

  Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist (d. 1994)
• 1910

  Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
• 1965

  Krist Novoselic, American musician and author
• 1966

  Janet Jackson, American singer
• 1969

  David Boreanaz, American actor
• 1969

  Tucker Carlson, American television commentator
• 1970

  Danielle Spencer, Australian singer and actress
• 1973

  Jason Acuña, American television personality
• 1974

  Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)

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