What Day of the Week

May 4, 2020 is the 125^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

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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
• 1675

  King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
• 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.
• 1910

  The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
• 1942

  World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
• 1945

  World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
• 1949

  The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
• 1961

  American civil rights movement: The “Freedom Riders” begin a bus trip through the South.
• 1974

  An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.

• 1767

  Tyāgarāja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (d. 1847)
• 1772

  Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
• 1889

  Francis Cardinal Spellman, American religious leader (d. 1967)
• 1923

  Ed Cassidy, American musician (Spirit)
• 1939

  Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist
• 1943

  Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1951

  Jackie Jackson, American singer and musician (The Jackson 5)
• 1954

  Pia Zadora, American actress
• 1987

  Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1989

  Aris Tatarounis, Greek basketball player

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