What Day of the Week

May 7, 2020 was the 128^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 238 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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.
• 1697

  Stockholm’s royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced by the current Royal Palace in the eighteenth century.
• 1718

  The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
• 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.
• 1915

  World War I: German submarine SMU U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• 1920

  Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
• 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.
• 2009

  Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.

• 1836

  Joseph Gurney Cannon, American politician (d. 1926)
• 1867

  Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1925)
• 1922

  Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (d. 2006)
• 1928

  John Ingle, American actor
• 1931

  Gene Wolfe, American science fiction author
• 1939

  Ruud Lubbers, Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1950

  Randall ‘Tex’Cobb, American boxer and actor
• 1955

  Peter Reckell, American actor
• 1967

  Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer
• 1984

  Alex Smith, American football player

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