What Day of the Week

May 20, 2019 was the 140^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 225 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 325

  The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
• 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.
• 1813

  Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
• 1840

  York Minster is badly damaged by fire
• 1916

  The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
• 1927

  At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
• 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.
• 1980

  In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
• 1983

  First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
• 2002

  The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).

• 1315

  Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (d. 1349)
• 1772

  Sir William Congreve, English inventor (d. 1828)
• 1860

  Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
• 1941

  Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean Senior Minister
• 1947

  Greg Dyke, British broadcast executive
• 1947

  John Corapi, American Catholic prelate
• 1957

  Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister of Japan
• 1965

  Stu Grimson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977

  Tiger Tyson, American pornographic actor
• 1983

  Roger Huerta, American mixed martial artist

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