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Month May 1881 Calendar

About Month of May Calendar

  • 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, 1881

  • Day of Week 12th » In North Africa, Ottoman Tunisia known as Tunisia becomes a French Protectorate of Tunisia e.g French protectorate.
  • Day of Week 21st » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1881

  • 1st » Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French-American priest, palaeontologist, and philosopher (d. 1955)
  • 1st » John Svanberg, Swedish long-distance runner (d. 1957)
  • 4th » Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Russia (d. 1970)
  • 7th » George E. Wiley, American cyclist (d. 1954)
  • 11th » Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1964)
  • 11th » Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
  • 11th » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)
  • 13th » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author (d. 1922)
  • 13th » Joseph Forshaw (athlete) named Joe Forshaw, American runner (d. 1964)
  • 14th » George Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
  • 14th » Ed Walsh, American baseball player and coach (d. 1959)
  • 19th » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
  • 30th » Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)

Famous Deaths for May 1881

  • 14th » Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse (b. 1805)
  • 24th » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
  • 26th » Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (b. 1824)

Calendar for the year 1881 and a calender for the month of May

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