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 21
May 21, 2025 is the 141st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 224 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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 21
- 879 –Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
- 1674 –The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
- 1863 –Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
- 1871 –Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
- 1879 –War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
- 1934 –Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
- 1937 –A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
- 1939 –The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
- 1966 –The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
- 1972 –Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
Who were born on May 21?
- 1853 –Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
- 1907 –John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
- 1918 –Dennis Day, American singer and comedian (d. 1988)
- 1920 –Anthony Steel, British actor (d. 2001)
- 1941 –Bobby Cox, American baseball manager and former player
- 1941 –Martin Carthy, English folk singer and guitarist
- 1960 –Mohanlal, Indian actor
- 1972 –Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
- 1980 –Gotye, Australian Musician
- 1985 –Andrew Miller, American baseball player
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