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 Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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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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• 1455

  Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
• 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.
• 1840

  The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
• 1843

  Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.
• 1872

  Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• 1903

  Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
• 1939

  World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
• 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.
• 1968

  The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
• 1990

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

• 1724

  Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
• 1907

  Sir Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor (d. 1989)
• 1911

  Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born mathematical psychologist and pianist (d. 2007)
• 1941

  Martha Langbein, German athlete
• 1955

  Dale Winton, British radio DJ and television presenter
• 1961

  Mike Breen, American sportscaster
• 1967

  John Vanderslice, American musician
• 1977

  Vinnie Potestivo, American TV producer
• 1985

  CariDee English, American model
• 1993

  Ben Lewis, English photographer

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