What Day of the Week

May 8, 2021 is the 128^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1450

  Jack Cade’s Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
• 1846

  Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
• 1886

  Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine.
• 1912

  Paramount Pictures is founded.
• 1942

  World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
• 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.
• 1980

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

  Thames Barrier officially opened.
• 1984

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

• 1828

  Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross; Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
• 1903

  Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971)
• 1916

  Swami Chinmayananda, Indian spiritualist (d. 1993)
• 1940

  Irwin Cotler, Canadian politician
• 1946

  Jonathan Dancy, British philosopher
• 1964

  Melissa Gilbert, American actress
• 1970

  Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist
• 1975

  Gastón Mazzacane, Argentine racing driver
• 1985

  Mashio Miyazaki, Japanese actress
• 1991

  Ethan Gage, Canadian soccer player

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