May 1897 Day Of The Week - 1897 May Calendar Month View

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).

Day of Week 14th » 'The Stars and Stripes Forever' is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia.
Day of Week 19th » Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
Day of Week 22nd » The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
Day of Week 26th » 'Dracula', a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.

2nd » John Frederick Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
3rd » William Joseph Browne, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Solicitor General of Canada (d. 1989)
6th » Paul Alverdes, German author and poet (d. 1979)
10th » Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)
11th » Kurt Gerron, German actor and director (d. 1944)
11th » Robert E. Gross (businessman) e.g Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
14th » Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 1959)
14th » Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist (d. 1948)
16th » Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist (d. 1994)
17th » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
18th » Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
19th » Frank Luke, American lieutenant and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1918)
20th » Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (d. 1983)
20th » Malcolm Nokes, English hammer and discus thrower (d. 1986)
22nd » Jeanne de Casalis, Mosotho-English actress (d. 1966)
22nd » Marcelle Meyer, French pianist (d. 1958)
25th » Gene Tunney, American boxer (d. 1978)
27th » John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
27th » Dink Templeton, American rugby player, jumper, and coach (d. 1962)
29th » Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American composer (d. 1957)