What Day of the Week

May 4, 2019 was the 124^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 241 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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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• 1436

  Assasination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
• 1776

  Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• 1859

  The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
• 1886

  Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
• 1904

  The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1919

  May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
• 1945

  World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
• 1970

  Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States’ invasion of Cambodia.
• 1979

  Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 2002

  An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.

• 1796

  William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859)
• 1916

  Richard Proenneke, American naturalist (d. 2003)
• 1929

  Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d. 1993)
• 1949

  Graham Swift, British author
• 1958

  Delbert Fowler, American football player
• 1969

  Ryan Shamrock, American wrestling valet
• 1973

  John Madden, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974

  Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1979

  Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
• 1983

  Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress

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