What Day of the Week

May 28, 2020 was the 149^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 217 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.

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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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• 1588

  The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
• 1644

  Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
• 1937

  The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
• 1942

  World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
• 1961

  Peter Benenson’s article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
• 1982

  Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
• 1987

  19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
• 1991

  The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
• 2002

  NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
• 2010

  In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.

• 1858

  Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
• 1910

  Georg Gaßmann, German politician (d. 1987)
• 1915

  Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
• 1922

  Roger Fisher, American law professor
• 1934

  Emilie Dionne, Dionne quintuplets (d. 1954)
• 1942

  Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1964

  Christa Miller, American actress
• 1964

  Phil Vassar, American country singer
• 1977

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
• 1981

  Aaron Schock, American politician

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