What Day of the Week

May 20, 2021 is the 140^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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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• 1498

  Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
• 1631

  The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years’ War.
• 1775

  Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
• 1802

  By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
• 1873

  Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• 1902

  Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country’s first President.
• 1920

  Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
• 1927

  Treaty of Jedda: the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• 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.
• 1980

  In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.

• 1883

  King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
• 1899

  Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
• 1899

  John Marshall Harlan II, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1971)
• 1913

  William Hewlett, American engineer (d. 2001)
• 1918

  Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
• 1927

  Bud Grant, American football coach
• 1929

  Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier, who fought in Yom Kippur(d. 1973)
• 1950

  Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
• 1954

  Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka
• 1981

  Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer

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