Month May 1913 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, 1913

• Day of Week 3rd » 'Raja Harishchandra' the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Cinema of India or Indian film industry.
• Day of Week 14th » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
• Day of Week 30th » First Balkan War: the Treaty of London (1913), is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1913

• 1st » Louis Nye, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1st » Walter Susskind, Czech-English conductor (d. 1980)
• 2nd » Nigel Patrick, English actor and director (d. 1981)
• 3rd » William Inge, American author and playwright (d. 1973)
• 4th » John Broome (writer) e.g John Broome, American author (d. 1999)
• 4th » Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
• 6th » Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (d. 1989)
• 6th » Stewart Granger, English-American actor (d. 1993)
• 7th » John Spencer Hardy, American general (d. 2012)
• 7th » Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer
• 8th » Bob Clampett, American animator, director, and producer (d. 1984)
• 8th » Sid James, South African-English actor (d. 1976)
• 11th » Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist (d. 1994)
• 13th » William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician, 20th President of Liberia (d. 1980)
• 16th » Woody Herman, American singer, saxophonist, and clarinet player (d. 1987)
• 17th » Hans Ruesch, Swiss race car driver and author (d. 2007)
• 18th » Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English activist (d. 2000)
• 18th » Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (d. 2009)
• 18th » Charles Trenet, French singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
• 19th » Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (d. 1996)
• 20th » Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian footballer (d. 1996)
• 20th » William Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001)
• 21st » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
• 22nd » František Jílek, Czech conductor (d. 1993)
• 24th » Joe Abreu, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 24th » Audrey Brown, English runner (d. 2005)
• 24th » Peter Ellenshaw, American special effects designer (d. 2007)
• 25th » Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (d. 1957)
• 25th » Richard Dimbleby, English journalist (d. 1965)
• 26th » Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
• 26th » Pierre Daninos, French author (d. 2005)
• 26th » Josef Manger, German weightlifter (d. 1991)
• 27th » Wols, German painter and photographer (d. 1951)
• 29th » Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)

Famous Deaths for May 1913

• 1st » John Barclay Armstrong, American marshal (b. 1850)
• 6th » Alexandros Schinas, Greek assassin of George I of Greece (b. 1870)
• 16th » Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (b. 1849)

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