Month May 1910 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, 1910

• Day of Week 4th » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
• Day of Week 6th » George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
• Day of Week 11th » An act of the Congress of the United States or U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park (U.S.) or Glacier National Park in Montana.
• Day of Week 18th » The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
• Day of Week 31st » The creation of the Union of South Africa.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1910

• 1st » Raya Dunayevskaya, Ukrainian-American philosopher and activist (d. 1987)
• 1st » Dirk Andries Flentrop, Dutch organ builder (d. 2003)
• 1st » J. Allen Hynek, American astronomer and ufologist (d. 1986)
• 2nd » Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1943)
• 3rd » Norman Corwin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)
• 5th » Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator (d. 1999)
• 8th » Andrew E. Svenson, American author and publisher (d. 1975)
• 8th » Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1981)
• 12th » Johan Ferrier, Surinamese politician, 1st President of Suriname (d. 2010)
• 12th » Charles B. Fulton, American judge (d. 1996)
• 12th » Dorothy Hodgkin, Egyptian-English biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 12th » Gordon Jenkins, American pianist and composer (d. 1984)
• 15th » Constance Cummings, American-English actress (d. 2005)
• 16th » Olga Bergholz, Russian poet (d. 1975)
• 16th » Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (d. 2014)
• 16th » Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (d. 1972)
• 18th » Ester Boserup, Danish economist (d. 1999)
• 19th » Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
• 19th » Alan Melville, South African cricketer (d. 1983)
• 22nd » Johnny Olson, American game show host and announcer (d. 1985)
• 23rd » Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
• 23rd » Hugh Casson, English architect (d. 1999)
• 23rd » Scatman Crothers, American actor singer, dancer, and guitarist (d. 1986)
• 23rd » Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 2004)
• 26th » Imi Lichtenfeld, Hungarian-Israeli martial artist (d. 1998)
• 28th » Georg Gaßmann, German politician, List of mayors of Marburg or Mayor of Marburg (d. 1987)
• 28th » Rachel Kempson, English-American actress (d. 2003)
• 28th » T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)
• 29th » Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter (d. 1978)
• 30th » Harry Bernstein, English-American author (d. 2011)
• 30th » Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician (d. 1978)
• 30th » Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)

Famous Deaths for May 1910

• 3rd » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
• 6th » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 10th » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)
• 18th » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author (b. 1841)
• 18th » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 22nd » Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 27th » Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 29th » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 31st » Elizabeth Blackwell, English-American physician (b. 1821)

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