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Thursday 22 May 2031

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

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Ascension Day
Feast / celebration
The fortieth day of Eastertide, always a Thursday
The fortieth day of Eastertide counting Easter Day itself, always a Thursday.
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Eastertide
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 40 of 50
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This Week In Space and Astronomy History

25 MayApollo Program, Launch Date 1961
25 MayElectron, Launch Date 2017
26 MaySally Ride, born 1951
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Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.