What Day of the Week

May 3, 2019 is the 123^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 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.

Taurus 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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• 1808

  Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
• 1913

  Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
• 1915

  The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
• 1921

  West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to issues surrounding its enforcement.
• 1928

  Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
• 1939

  The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
• 1951

  The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
• 1960

  The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City’s Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
• 1973

  The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
• 2000

  The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

• 1893

  Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
• 1902

  Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1919

  John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
• 1919

  Pete Seeger, American singer
• 1934

  Henry Cooper, English boxer (d. 2011)
• 1938

  Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian Islamist terrorist
• 1951

  Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
• 1960

  Amy Steel, American actress
• 1975

  Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist
• 1977

  Tyronn Lue, American basketball player

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