What Day of the Week

May 22, 2021 is the 142^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Gemini 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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• 1826

  HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
• 1871

  The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
• 1903

  Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
• 1964

  U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an “end to poverty and racial injustice” in America.
• 1967

  The L'Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
• 1990

  North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
• 2002

  American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
• 2002

  In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
• 2008

  The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.
• 2010

  Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway and crashes. 158 people are killed.

• 1808

  Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
• 1904

  Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977)
• 1917

  Nathan Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1924

  Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer, actor, and composer
• 1927

  Michael Constantine, American actor
• 1934

  Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001)
• 1950

  Bernie Taupin, English songwriter
• 1974

  Sean Gunn, American actor
• 1985

  Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
• 1988

  Pape M'Bow, Senegalese footballer

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