What Day Of The Week Was May 8?

May 8: Day of the Week

May 8, 2026 is the 128th day of the year 2026 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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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May 8 by the Numbers

• 80 days since May 8
• 0 year, 2 months, and 19 days ago
• 2 months since then
• May 8 is in the 19th week of the year 2026 (ISO 8601)
• 11 weeks ago
• The year 2026 is not a leap year

May 8 Historical Event(s)

1541Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo. 1788The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts. 1861American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America. 1919Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day. 1924the Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania. 1945End of the Prague uprising, today celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic. 1945Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre. 1972Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day. 1976The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain. 1988A fire at Illinois Bell‘s Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history’and still the worst to occur on Mother’s Day.

Who were born on May 8?

1920Sloan Wilson, American author (d. 2003) 1937Mike Cuellar, American baseball player (d. 2010) 1937Thomas Pynchon, American novelist 1940Irwin Cotler, Canadian politician 1940Peter Benchley, American author (d. 2006) 1946Jonathan Dancy, British philosopher 1963Izabela Kloc, Polish politician 1978Matthew Davis, American actor 1980Benny Yau, Canadian entertainer 1982Buakaw Por. Pramuk, Thai Muaythai kickboxer

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