What Day of the Week

May 20, 2020 was the 141^st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 225 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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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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• 526

  An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
• 1497

  John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Ship looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
• 1521

  Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded.
• 1609

  Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
• 1775

  Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
• 1882

  The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
• 1941

  World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
• 1956

  In Operation Redwing (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean;
• 1965

  PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 – 040 B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.
• 1969

  The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.

• 1726

  Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
• 1838

  Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
• 1860

  Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
• 1899

  John Marshall Harlan II, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1971)
• 1918

  Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
• 1947

  Greg Dyke, British broadcast executive
• 1971

  Tony Stewart, American race car driver
• 1975

  Mark Zupan, American wheelchair rugby player and actor
• 1979

  Jayson Werth, American baseball player
• 1981

  Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player

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