What Day of the Week

May 22, 2023 was the 142^nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 223 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.

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.

• 1762

  Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
• 1809

  On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
• 1826

  HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
• 1856

  Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
• 1947

  Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
• 1960

  An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
• 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.
• 1990

  North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
• 1998

  Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
• 2011

  An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing up to 161 people. It is the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.

• 1902

  Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
• 1904

  Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
• 1907

  Hergé, Belgian comic-book creator (d. 1983)
• 1925

  Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
• 1938

  Frank Converse, American actor
• 1940

  Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
• 1950

  Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician
• 1978

  Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
• 1982

  Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
• 1985

  Chrissie Chau, Hong Kong model

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