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Month May 1882 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, 1882

  • Day of Week 6th » Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant) called Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
  • 6th » The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
  • Day of Week 20th » The Triple Alliance (1882) named Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1882

  • 6th » Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (d. 1951)
  • 7th » Willem Elsschot, Flemish poet (d. 1960)
  • 9th » George Barker (painter) e.g George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
  • 9th » Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman and shipbuilder, founded Kaiser Shipyards (d. 1967)
  • 11th » Joseph Marx, Austrian composer, educator, and critic (d. 1964)
  • 13th » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (d. 1963)
  • 16th » Simeon Price, American golfer (d. 1945)
  • 17th » Karl Burman, Estonian architect and painter (d. 1965)
  • 18th » Babe Adams, American baseball player, manager, and journalist (d. 1968)
  • 20th » Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
  • 23rd » William Halpenny, Canadian pole vaulter (d. 1960)
  • 25th » Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
  • 30th » Wyndham Halswelle, English runner (d. 1915)
  • 31st » Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (d. 1956)

Famous Deaths for May 1882

  • 6th » Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant) or Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
  • 6th » Lord Frederick Cavendish, English-Irish politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
  • 16th » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)

Calendar for the year 1882 and a calender for the month of May

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