What Day of the Week

May 8, 2023 was the 128^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 237 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.

• 413

  Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, who are plundered by the Visigoths.
• 1541

  Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
• 1794

  Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
• 1821

  Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia.
• 1946

  Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
• 1963

  South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine.
• 1972

  Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
• 1972

  Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
• 1984

  Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
• 1988

  A fire at Illinois Bell‘s Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history’and still the worst to occur on Mother’s Day.

• 1753

  Miguel Hidalgo Mexican revolutionary (d. 1811)
• 1914

  Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)
• 1926

  Don Rickles, American comedian
• 1928

  Theodore Sorensen, American lawyer and special counsel to John F. Kennedy (d. 2010)
• 1943

  Paul Samwell-Smith, British bassist (The Yardbirds)
• 1956

  Jeff Wincott, Canadian actor
• 1972

  Darren Hayes, Australian singer
• 1977

  Theodoros Papaloukas, Greek basketball player
• 1980

  Panayiotis Kafkis, Greek basketball player
• 1983

  Juan Martin Goity, Argentine-born German rugby player

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