What Day of the Week

May 6, 2019 was the 126^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 239 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 1659

  English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
• 1757

  English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
• 1844

  The Glaciarium, the world’s first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
• 1877

  Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• 1889

  The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
• 1910

  George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
• 1935

  New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
• 1941

  At California’s March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
• 1962

  St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
• 1994

  Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.

• 1916

  Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (d. 1997)
• 1924

  Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. 2006)
• 1937

  Rubin Carter, American boxer
• 1944

  Masanori Murakami, first Japanese baseball player in major leagues
• 1952

  Gerrit Zalm, Dutch politician and CEO (ABN AMRO)
• 1956

  Lakis Lazopoulos, Greek comedian and scriptwriter
• 1970

  Roland Kun, Nauruan politician
• 1979

  Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower
• 1983

  Adrianne Palicki, American actress
• 1985

  Tanerau Latimer, New Zealand All Black rugby player

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