What Day of the Week

May 19, 2022 was the 139^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 226 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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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• 1499

  Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
• 1535

  French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona’s two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
• 1568

  Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
• 1802

  Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
• 1845

  Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
• 1848

  Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
• 1919

  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
• 1950

  A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
• 1961

  Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
• 1991

  Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.

• 1795

  Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
• 1879

  Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born British politician (d. 1964)
• 1906

  Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
• 1937

  Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1947

  David Helfgott, Australian pianist
• 1953

  Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
• 1955

  James Gosling, Canadian computer programmer
• 1975

  Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
• 1979

  Barbara Nedeljáková, Slovak actress
• 1983

  Jessica Fox, English actress

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