What Day of the Week

May 24, 2019 is the 144^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 221 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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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• 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.
• 1595

  Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
• 1948

  Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
• 1960

  Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
• 1961

  American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for “disturbing the peace” after disembarking from their bus.
• 1967

  Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
• 1970

  The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
• 1976

  The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
• 1989

  Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, is awarded £600,000 in damages (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal) after winning a libel action against Private Eye.
• 2000

  Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

• 1544

  William Gilbert, English natural philosopher (d. 1603)
• 1868

  Charlie Taylor, American mechanic, associate with the Wright brothers (d. 1956)
• 1905

  Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1933

  Aharon Lichtenstein, French-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva
• 1936

  Harold Budd, American composer and poet
• 1949

  Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
• 1963

  Rich Rodriguez, American football coach
• 1973

  Dermot O'Leary, English television presenter
• 1976

  Catherine Cox, Australian netballer
• 1988

  Artem Anisimov, Russian hockey player

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