What Day of the Week

May 7, 2019 is the 127^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 238 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1429

  Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years’ War.
• 1718

  The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
• 1895

  In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
• 1942

  During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• 1960

  Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• 1974

  West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
• 1992

  Three employees at a McDonald’s Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first “fast-food murder” in Canada.
• 1994

  Edvard Munch’s iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after having been stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
• 1999

  Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
• 2002

  A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

• 1812

  Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
• 1857

  William A. MacCorkle, American politician (d. 1930)
• 1892

  Archibald MacLeish, American Librarian of Congress (d. 1982)
• 1931

  Gene Wolfe, American science fiction author
• 1946

  Thelma Houston, American singer
• 1964

  Doug Benson, American comedian
• 1976

  Calvin Booth, American basketball player
• 1978

  Brian Clevinger, American author
• 1982

  Ákos Buzsáky, Hungarian footballer
• 1984

  Drew Stanton, American football player

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