Month May 1906 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, 1906

• Day of Week 2nd » Closing ceremony of the 1906 Intercalated Games e.g Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
• Day of Week 22nd » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Airplane or Flying-Machine".
• Day of Week 26th » Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1906

• 1st » Horst Schumann, German SS officer and physician (d. 1983)
• 2nd » Philippe Halsman, Latvian-American photographer (d. 1979)
• 2nd » Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (d. 2002)
• 3rd » Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987)
• 3rd » Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist (d. 1975)
• 3rd » René Huyghe, French historian and author (d. 1997)
• 3rd » Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2005)
• 5th » Charles Exbrayat, French author (d. 1989)
• 6th » André Weil, French mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
• 7th » Eric Krenz, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1931)
• 8th » Esther Hoffe, Israeli mistress of Max Brod (d. 2007)
• 8th » Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• 9th » Eleanor Estes, American author (d. 1988)
• 16th » Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter (d. 1988)
• 16th » Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author (d. 2001)
• 16th » Margret Rey, German author and illustrator (d. 1996)
• 17th » Zinka Milanov, Croatian-American soprano (d. 1989)
• 19th » Bruce Bennett, American shot putter and actor (d. 2007)
• 20th » Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (d. 1989)
• 23rd » Pran Nath Thapar, Indian general (d. 1975)
• 27th » Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (d. 1993)
• 27th » Antonio Rosario Mennonna, Italian bishop (d. 2009)
• 28th » Henry Thambiah, Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, and diplomat, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada (d. 1997)
• 29th » T. H. White, Indian-English author (d. 1964)
• 30th » Bruno Gröning, Polish-German mystic (d. 1959)

Famous Deaths for May 1906

• 14th » Carl Schurz, German-American general, journalist, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1829)
• 23rd » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)

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