What Day of the Week

May 5, 2023 was the 125^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 240 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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.

• 1494

  Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
• 1809

  Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
• 1809

  The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
• 1811

  In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington’s overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portugese army holds the field at the end of the day.
• 1821

  Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
• 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.
• 1905

  The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• 1955

  West Germany gains full sovereignty.
• 1994

  The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

• 1834

  Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
• 1890

  Christopher Morley, American writer (d. 1957)
• 1899

  Freeman Gosden, American radio comedian (Amos-Amos ‘n’Andy) (d. 1982)
• 1903

  James Beard, American chef and cookbook writer (d. 1985)
• 1915

  Alice Faye, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1921

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 1958

  Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian rules footballer
• 1966

  Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (Megadeth)
• 1972

  Brad Bombardir, Canadian ice-hockey player
• 1987

  Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer

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