What Day of the Week

May 3, 2019 was the 123^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 242 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 1491

  Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
• 1860

  Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• 1877

  Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
• 1916

  The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
• 1936

  Joe DiMaggio, familiarly referred to as Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees.
• 1939

  The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
• 1942

  World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
• 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.
• 1952

  The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.
• 2000

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

• 1879

  Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (d. 1950)
• 1887

  Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954)
• 1896

  Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
• 1917

  Betty Comden, American lyricist (d. 2006)
• 1923

  Ralph Hall, American politician
• 1932

  Robert Osborne, American film historian
• 1959

  Uma Bharati, Indian politician
• 1969

  Daryl F. Mallett, American writer/editor
• 1977

  Mashima Hiro, Japanese manga artist of Rave Master and Fairy Tail
• 1990

  Miranda Chartrand, Canadian singer

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