What Day of the Week

May 4, 2018 was the 124^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 241 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 1415

  Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
• 1471

  Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
• 1626

  Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
• 1776

  Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• 1869

  The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
• 1910

  The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
• 1912

  Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
• 1953

  Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• 1998

  A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
• 2007

  Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF-5 tornado.

• 1752

  John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
• 1772

  Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
• 1923

  Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery (d. 2006)
• 1949

  John Force, American race car driver
• 1954

  Pia Zadora, American actress
• 1956

  Ken Oberkfell, American baseball player
• 1969

  Micah Aivazoff, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970

  Sergio Basañez, Mexican actor
• 1974

  Tony McCoy, Northern Irish National Hunt jockey
• 1978

  Daisuke Ono, Japanese seiyu

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