What Day of the Week

May 9, 2021 is the 129^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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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• 1887

  Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London.
• 1911

  The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
• 1942

  Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
• 1945

  World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
• 1955

  Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
• 1960

  The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle’s Enovid, making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive pill.
• 1970

  Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
• 1974

  Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
• 1980

  In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
• 1992

  Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.

• 1882

  Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder (d. 1967)
• 1918

  Mike Wallace, American journalist
• 1936

  Albert Finney, British actor
• 1946

  Candice Bergen, American actress
• 1956

  Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress
• 1971

  Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)
• 1977

  Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress
• 1981

  Yu Yokoyama, Japanese actor and singer
• 1983

  Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
• 1983

  Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player

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