What Day of the Week

May 19, 2019 was the 139^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 226 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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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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• 1749

  King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• 1776

  American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
• 1828

  U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
• 1864

  American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
• 1943

  World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings (“D-Day”). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
• 1959

  The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
• 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).
• 1971

  Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1997

  The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
• 2010

  The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.

• 1773

  Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
• 1908

  Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
• 1910

  Alan Melville, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1948, (d. 1983)
• 1914

  Max Perutz, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
• 1931

  Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
• 1955

  James Gosling, Canadian computer programmer
• 1959

  Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (d. 1994)
• 1963

  Yazz, English singer
• 1981

  Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer
• 1984

  Marcedes Lewis, American football player

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