What Day of the Week

May 7, 2018 was the 127^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 238 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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• 1664

  Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles.
• 1864

  American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
• 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.
• 1945

  World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany’s participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
• 1952

  The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
• 1992

  The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49).
• 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.
• 2002

  A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
• 2007

  Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.

• 1397

  Sejong the Great, was the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (d. 1450)
• 1928

  John Ingle, American actor
• 1937

  Claude Raymond, Quebec baseball player
• 1943

  Harvey Andrews, English singer and songwriter
• 1943

  Terry Allen, American country music singer
• 1954

  Amy Heckerling, American director
• 1955

  Peter Reckell, American actor
• 1960

  Almudena Grandes, Spanish novelist
• 1977

  Lisa Kelly, Irish singer
• 1980

  Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer

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