What Day of the Week

May 16, 2020 is the 137^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1204

  Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
• 1527

  The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
• 1770

  14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
• 1843

  The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
• 1868

  President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
• 1929

  In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
• 1960

  Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
• 1961

  Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• 1974

  Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
• 1975

  India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.

• 1821

  Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
• 1910

  Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (d. 1972)
• 1921

  Harry Carey, Jr., American actor
• 1931

  Hana Brady, Polish Holocaust victim (d. 1944)
• 1958

  Gitane Demone, American Goth singer
• 1963

  Jon Coffelt, American artist
• 1963

  Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
• 1966

  Thurman Thomas, American football player
• 1971

  Rachel Goswell, English singer and songwriter (Slowdive, Mojave 3)
• 1972

  Khary Payton, American actor

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