What Day of the Week

May 23, 2019 was the 143^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 222 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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.
• 1568

  Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years’ War.
• 1788

  South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
• 1911

  The New York Public Library is dedicated.
• 1915

  World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
• 1934

  American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
• 1945

  World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
• 1958

  Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
• 2004

  Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
• 2006

  Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.

• 1912

  Jean Françaix, French composer (d. 1997)
• 1913

  Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican singer
• 1920

  Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
• 1943

  General Norman Johnson, American singer (Chairmen of the Board) (d. 2010)
• 1943

  Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
• 1965

  Athanasios Skourtopoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1965

  Tom Tykwer, German film director
• 1973

  Mirjam Sterk, Dutch politician
• 1982

  Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer
• 1985

  Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer

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