What Day of the Week

May 8, 2022 is the 128^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.

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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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• 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.
• 1899

  The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
• 1933

  Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
• 1945

  World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
• 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.
• 1970

  The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
• 1972

  Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
• 1984

  The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
• 1987

  The Loughgall Ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
• 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.

• 1906

  Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
• 1930

  Heather Harper, Irish singer
• 1951

  Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads)
• 1953

  Billy Burnette, American singer and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1963

  Terry Christian, British radio and television presenter
• 1968

  Nathalie Normandeau, Quebec politician
• 1970

  Luis Enrique, Spanish football player
• 1974

  Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)
• 1981

  Björn Dixgård, Swedish guitarist, singer, songwriter
• 1985

  Mashio Miyazaki, Japanese actress

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