May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. May is a month of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and spring in the Northern Hemisphere (Summer in Europe). Therefore May in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of November in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
May symbols: The birthstone of May is the emerald which is emblematic of love and success. The May birth flower is the Lily of the Valley and the Crataegus monogyna. The mayflower Epigaea repens is a North American harbinger of May, and the floral emblem of both Nova Scotia and Massachusetts. Its native range extends from Newfoundland south to Florida, west to Kentucky in the southern range, and to Northwest Territories in the north. The zodiac signs for the month of May are Taurus (until May 20) and Gemini (May 21 onwards).
Historical Events for May, 1872
Day of Week 10th » Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
Day of Week 22nd » Reconstruction Era called Reconstruction: President of the United States e.g U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1872
1st » Sidónio Pais, Portuguese politician, 4th President of Portugal (d. 1918)
1st » Harry Leon Wilson, American author (d. 1939)
6th » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1934)
10th » Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1950)
12th » Anton Korošec, Slovenian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 1940)
14th » Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (d. 1961)
18th » Bertrand Russell e.g Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, historian, and philosopher, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
28th » Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
31st » W. Heath Robinson, English illustrator (d. 1944)
Famous Deaths for May 1872
7th » Alexander Loyd, American politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
24th » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (b. 1794)