What Day of the Week

May 8, 2020 was the 129^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 237 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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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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• 1886

  Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine.
• 1898

  The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
• 1924

  the Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
• 1927

  Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
• 1945

  End of the Prague uprising, today celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
• 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.
• 1973

  A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
• 1980

  The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization.
• 1984

  The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
• 1997

  A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.

• 1842

  Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist (d. 1909)
• 1847

  Oscar Hammerstein I, American theater producer and impresario (d. 1919)
• 1850

  Ross Barnes, baseball player (d. 1915)
• 1853

  Dan Brouthers, baseball player (d. 1932)
• 1919

  Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1920

  Sloan Wilson, American author (d. 2003)
• 1968

  Johan Pehrson, Swedish politician
• 1975

  Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1976

  Ian Watkins, Welsh singer and actor (Steps)
• 1981

  Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer

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