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 5
May 5, 2025 is the 125th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Monday.
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 5
- 1835 –In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
- 1877 –Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
- 1904 –Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- 1941 –Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots’ Victory Day.
- 1944 –German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece
- 1945 –World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
- 1949 –The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
- 1955 –West Germany gains full sovereignty.
- 2007 –All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.
Who were born on May 5?
- 1479 –Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
- 1800 –Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)
- 1826 –Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France, wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)
- 1883 –Agustín Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer (d. 1944)
- 1940 –Michael Lindsay-Hogg, American film director
- 1942 –Marc Alaimo, American actor
- 1957 –Peter Howitt, British actor and film director
- 1963 –Heidi Kozak, American actress
- 1966 –Josh Weinstein, American writer
- 1972 –James Cracknell, British rower
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