What Day of the Week

May 9, 2018 was the 129^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 236 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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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

  'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
• 1726

  Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap’s molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
• 1918

  World War I: Germans repel the British’s second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
• 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: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower’s deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
• 1948

  Czechoslovakia’s Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
• 1949

  Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
• 1961

  Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
• 2001

  In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
• 2006

  Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.

• 1866

  Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leader of Indian Independence Movement (d. 1915)
• 1883

  José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
• 1914

  Denham Fouts, American male prostitute and socialite (d. 1948)
• 1930

  Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)
• 1932

  Geraldine McEwan, English actress
• 1935

  Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (The Ventures)
• 1968

  Marie-José Pérec, French athlete
• 1971

  Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)
• 1972

  Daniela Silivaş, Romanian gymnast and Olympic Champion
• 1985

  Henrique, Brazilian soccer player

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