What Day of the Week

May 2, 2020 is the 123^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 243 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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• 1335

  Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
• 1559

  John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.
• 1611

  King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
• 1808

  Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
• 1952

  The world’s first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
• 1964

  First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
• 1982

  Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
• 1989

  Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
• 1998

  The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union’s monetary policy.
• 2011

  The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.

• 1451

  René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)
• 1894

  Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (d. 1981)
• 1925

  Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1939

  Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
• 1967

  Mika Brzezinski, American journalist
• 1968

  Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor
• 1974

  Garðar Thór Cortes, Icelandic tenor
• 1977

  Jenna von Oy, American actress
• 1980

  Troy Murphy, American basketball player
• 1985

  Sarah Hughes, American figure skater

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