What Day of the Week

May 24, 2020 was the 145^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 221 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 1218

  The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
• 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.
• 1956

  Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha’s Parinibbāna.
• 1962

  Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
• 1967

  Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
• 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.
• 1991

  Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

• 1616

  John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
• 1836

  Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925)
• 1854

  John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
• 1855

  Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright (d. 1934)
• 1863

  George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
• 1913

  Peter Ellenshaw, American matte designer (d. 2007)
• 1945

  Priscilla Presley, American actress
• 1965

  Jens Becker, German bassist (Grave Digger)
• 1973

  Vladimír Šmicer, Czech footballer
• 1986

  Jordan Metcalfe, English actor

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