What Day of the Week

May 21, 2023 was the 141^st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 224 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.

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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.

• 879

  Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
• 1554

  A royal Charter is granted to Derby School as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England, by Queen Mary I.
• 1864

  Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
• 1879

  War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
• 1904

  The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
• 1911

  Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
• 1966

  The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
• 1972

  Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
• 1979

  White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
• 1996

  The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.

• 1792

  Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
• 1851

  Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1925)
• 1856

  José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan politician (d. 1929)
• 1901

  Horace Heidt, American band leader (d. 1986)
• 1901

  Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
• 1916

  Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
• 1923

  Evelyn Ward, American actress
• 1948

  Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker, English writer
• 1977

  Ricky Williams, American football player
• 1982

  Brian Klemm, American guitarist and vocalist (Suburban Legends)

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