Month May 1908 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, 1908

• Day of Week 20th » Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
• Day of Week 26th » At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
• Day of Week 27th » Khilafat Day – the day of establishment of Khilafat in Islam Ahmadiyya.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1908

• 1st » Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (d. 1968)
• 1st » Morris Kline, American mathematician and educator (d. 1992)
• 4th » Wolrad Eberle, German decathlete (d. 1949)
• 5th » Kurt Böhme, German opera singer (d. 1989)
• 9th » Mary Scheier, American sculptor (d. 2007)
• 10th » Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2000)
• 13th » Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1996)
• 14th » Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse (d. 2000)
• 19th » Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian author (d. 1956)
• 19th » Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994)
• 19th » Percy Williams (sprinter) e.g Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter (d. 1982)
• 20th » Louis Daquin, French actor and director (d. 1980)
• 20th » Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author (d. 1993)
• 20th » James Stewart, American actor and singer (d. 1997)
• 22nd » Rattana Pestonji, Thai director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1970)
• 22nd » Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
• 23rd » John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 23rd » Hélène Boucher, French pilot (d. 1934)
• 23rd » Paul Dozois, Canadian politician (d. 1984)
• 25th » Theodore Roethke, American poet and academic (d. 1963)
• 26th » Robert Morley, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 26th » Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Vietnamese politician, 1st Leaders of South Vietnam e.g Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam
• 28th » Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician (d. 2005)
• 28th » Ian Fleming, English journalist and author (d. 1964)
• 29th » Diana Morgan (screenwriter) e.g Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 30th » Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 30th » Mel Blanc, American voice actor and singer (d. 1989)
• 31st » Don Ameche, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
• 31st » Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000)

Famous Deaths for May 1908

• 18th » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 23rd » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 24th » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821)
• 26th » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya or Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 31st » Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (b. 1839)

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