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.

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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.
• 1621

  The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
• 1830

  Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
• 1844

  Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
• 1856

  John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
• 1941

  World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the then pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
• 1960

  Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
• 1981

  Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife and his presidential committee died in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
• 1990

  A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
• 1991

  Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.

• 15 BC

  Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
• 1671

  Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
• 1886

  Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
• 1899

  Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi National poet. (d. 1976)
• 1901

  José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1968)
• 1916

  Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat (d. 2002)
• 1937

  Roger Peterson, pilot who flew the plane on The Day the Music Died (d. 1959)
• 1964

  Adrian Moorhouse, British swimmer
• 1965

  Jens Becker, German bassist (Grave Digger)
• 1973

  Dermot O'Leary, English television presenter

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