What Day of the Week

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

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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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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• 1256

  The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
• 1675

  King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
• 1686

  The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
• 1814

  King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
• 1863

  American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
• 1912

  Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
• 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.
• 1946

  In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
• 1959

  The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
• 1982

  Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.

• 1008

  Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
• 1649

  Maharaja Chhatrasal (d. 1731)
• 1890

  Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist, a founder of the Group of Seven (d. 1945)
• 1923

  Godfrey Quigley, British actor (d. 1994)
• 1923

  Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery (d. 2006)
• 1929

  Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d. 1993)
• 1930

  Roberta Peters, American soprano
• 1971

  Rudresh Mahanthappa, Indian-American jazz alto saxophonist and composer
• 1983

  Jesse Moss, Canadian actor
• 1990

  Matthias Cuntz, German footballer

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