What Day of the Week

May 23, 2020 was the 144^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 222 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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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• 1498

  Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
• 1618

  The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years’ War.
• 1701

  After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
• 1829

  Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna.
• 1934

  The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the “Battle of Toledo”, a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
• 1939

  The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
• 1995

  Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
• 1998

  The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
• 2002

  The “55 parties” clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
• 2004

  Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.

• 1606

  Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish polymath (d. 1682)
• 1883

  Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
• 1896

  Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
• 1900

  Hans Frank, German lawyer and Nazi official (d. 1946)
• 1911

  Paul Mayer, German Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 2010)
• 1958

  François Feldman, French singer
• 1974

  Jewel, American singer
• 1974

  Ken Jennings, American game show contestant
• 1974

  Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
• 1978

  Mike González, American baseball player

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