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 2
May 2, 2025 is the 122nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 243 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
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 2
- 1230 –William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
- 1559 –John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.
- 1808 –Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
- 1816 –Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta.
- 1879 –The Spanish Socialist Worker‘s Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub (city of Madrid) by the historical Spanish workers’leader Pablo Iglesias.
- 1920 –The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- 1952 –The world’s first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
- 1989 –Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
- 2008 –Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
- 2011 –The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
Who were born on May 2?
- 1729 –Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (d. 1796)
- 1912 –Axel Cäsar Springer, German publisher (d. 1985)
- 1925 –Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1939 –Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
- 1954 –Angela Bofill, American singer songwriter
- 1975 –Eva Santolaria, Spanish actress
- 1978 –Steve Bays, Canadian musician
- 1979 –Ioannis Kanotidis, Greek footballer
- 1983 –Daniel Sordo, Spanish rally driver
- 1985 –Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
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