What Day of the Week

May 22, 2020 was the 143^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 223 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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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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• 1176

  The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
• 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.
• 1871

  The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
• 1906

  The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.
• 1915

  Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
• 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.
• 1980

  Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
• 1997

  Kelly Flinn, US Air Force’s first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
• 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.

• 1901

  Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
• 1907

  Sir Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor (d. 1989)
• 1930

  Kenny Ball, British musician
• 1942

  Calvin Simon, American musician (P Funk)
• 1956

  Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (d. 2008)
• 1962

  Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
• 1964

  Mark Christopher Lawrence, American Actor & Standup Comedian
• 1972

  Anna Belknap, American actress
• 1977

  Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Irish hurler
• 1982

  Alex Smith, American football player

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