What Day of the Week

May 3, 2022 was the 123^rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 242 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1802

  Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
• 1815

  Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
• 1830

  The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
• 1860

  Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• 1915

  The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
• 1937

  Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
• 1951

  London’s Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
• 1960

  The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 1973

  The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
• 1986

  Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.

• 1849

  Jacob August Riis, American journalist (d. 1914)
• 1892

  Jacob Viner, Canadian economist (d. 1970)
• 1945

  Davey Lopes, American baseball player and coach
• 1946

  Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
• 1955

  David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
• 1957

  Rod Langway, American ice hockey player
• 1965

  John Jensen, Danish footballer
• 1975

  Dulé Hill, American actor
• 1976

  Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
• 1983

  Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer

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