What Day of the Week

May 5, 2021 is the 125^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1215

  Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
• 1640

  King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
• 1864

  American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
• 1904

  Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• 1925

  Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
• 1946

  The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• 1955

  West Germany gains full sovereignty.
• 1972

  Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
• 1987

  Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
• 1991

  A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.

• 1818

  Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
• 1832

  H.H. Bancroft, American historian and publisher (d. 1918)
• 1833

  Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer (d. 1905)
• 1864

  Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer (d. 1922)
• 1927

  Pat Carroll, American actress
• 1932

  Will Hutchins, American actor
• 1970

  LaPhonso Ellis, American basketball player
• 1976

  Dieter Brummer, Australian actor
• 1981

  Chris Duncan, American baseball player
• 1989

  Larissa Wilson, English actress

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