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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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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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• 1092

  Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
• 1936

  Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
• 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.
• 1949

  Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
• 1950

  Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the “Schuman declaration”, is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
• 1969

  Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
• 1970

  Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
• 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.
• 1987

  A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M “Tadeusz Kościuszko” (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
• 1992

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

• 1741

  Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
• 1883

  José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
• 1912

  Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
• 1943

  Vince Cable, British politician
• 1953

  Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper
• 1955

  Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
• 1955

  Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1956

  Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress
• 1971

  Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)
• 1988

  John Ryan Fitzpatrick, Canadian race truck driver

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