What Day of the Week

May 4, 2021 was the 124^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 241 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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.
• 1436

  Assasination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
• 1626

  Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
• 1910

  The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
• 1932

  In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
• 1953

  Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• 1961

  American civil rights movement: The “Freedom Riders” begin a bus trip through the South.
• 1979

  Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1989

  Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
• 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.

• 1008

  Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
• 1852

  Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
• 1929

  Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d. 1993)
• 1933

  J. Fred Duckett, Texan sports announcer and teacher
• 1937

  Dick Dale, American guitarist
• 1940

  Robin Cook, American novelist
• 1959

  Inger Nilsson, Swedish actress
• 1960

  Andrew Denton, Australian television presenter and comedian
• 1971

  Rudresh Mahanthappa, Indian-American jazz alto saxophonist and composer
• 1980

  Andrew Raycroft, Canadian ice hockey player

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