Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: May 20
May 20, 2025 is the 140th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 20
- 526 –An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
- 1775 –Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
- 1802 –By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
- 1891 –History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
- 1896 –The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
- 1980 –In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
- 1983 –First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
- 1985 –Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
- 2002 –The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
Who were born on May 20?
- 1593 –Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
- 1894 –Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
- 1932 –Bob Florence, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d. 2008)
- 1961 –Clive Allen, English footballer
- 1969 –Brian Gerard James (“Road Dogg” Jesse James), American professional wrestler
- 1975 –Andrew Sega, American musician
- 1980 –Austin Kearns, American baseball player
- 1981 –Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
- 1986 –Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
- 1991 –Mara Lopez, Filipino actress
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