What Day of the Week

May 23, 2018 was the 143^rd day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 222 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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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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• 1430

  Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
• 1788

  South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
• 1805

  Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.
• 1844

  Declaration of the Báb: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
• 1846

  Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
• 1900

  American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
• 1907

  The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
• 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.
• 1949

  The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
• 1951

  Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People’s Republic of China.

• 1898

  Josef Terboven, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
• 1910

  Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)
• 1917

  Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
• 1939

  Jack McCarthy, American poet
• 1943

  Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
• 1960

  Linden Ashby, American actor
• 1970

  Nanette Burstein, American director/producer
• 1975

  Kim Sung-soo, South Korean actor
• 1979

  Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982

  Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer

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