What Day of the Week

May 24, 2019 was the 144^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 221 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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• 1276

  Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
• 1487

  The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII’s reign.
• 1895

  Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
• 1900

  Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
• 1901

  Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
• 1935

  The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
• 1973

  Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.
• 1990

  A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
• 1992

  The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
• 2001

  Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

• 1686

  Gabriel Fahrenheit, German inventor and thermometer maker (d. 1736)
• 1870

  Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938)
• 1874

  Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878)
• 1887

  Edward “Mick” Mannock, Irish World War I pilot (d. 1918)
• 1925

  Mai Zetterling, Swedish-born entertainer (d. 1994)
• 1928

  William Trevor, Irish writer
• 1934

  Barry Rose, English choir-trainer and organist
• 1943

  Gary Burghoff, American actor
• 1985

  Giannis Kondoes, Greek footballer
• 1988

  Artem Anisimov, Russian hockey player

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