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Month May 1919 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, 1919

  • Day of Week 4th » May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Republican China known as Chinese territory to Japan.
  • Day of Week 8th » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I.
  • Day of Week 15th » The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
  • 15th » Greek invasion of İzmir e.g Smyrna. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turkish people e.g Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades.
  • Day of Week 16th » A naval Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company or Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland and Labrador called Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
  • Day of Week 19th » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
  • Day of Week 27th » The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
  • Day of Week 29th » The Republic of Prekmurje is founded.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1919

  • 1st » Manna Dey, Indian singer (d. 2013)
  • 1st » Lewis Hill, American broadcaster, co-founded Pacifica Radio (d. 1957)
  • 1st » Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Moroccan politician, 7th Prime Minister of Morocco
  • 3rd » John Cullen Murphy, American illustrator (d. 2004)
  • 3rd » Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Weavers and Almanac Singers) (d. 2014)
  • 4th » Dory Funk, American wrestler (d. 1973)
  • 4th » Basil Yamey, South African-English economist and academic
  • 5th » Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1999)
  • 7th » La Esterella, Flemish singer (d. 2011)
  • 7th » Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
  • 8th » Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
  • 9th » Clifford Chadderton, Canadian soldier and journalist (d. 2013)
  • 9th » Arthur English, English actor (d. 1995)
  • 12th » Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (d. 2002)
  • 14th » Solange Chaput-Rolland, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
  • 14th » John Hope (meteorologist) or John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
  • 16th » Liberace, American singer, pianist, and actor (d. 1987)
  • 16th » Ramon Margalef, Spanish ecologist and biologist (d. 2004)
  • 17th » Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
  • 17th » Merle Miller, American author (d. 1986)
  • 17th » Gustav Naan, Soviet Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1994)
  • 17th » Vern Pyles, American politician (d. 2013)
  • 18th » Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina (d. 1991)
  • 19th » Georgie Auld, Canadian-American saxophonist, clarinet player, and bandleader (d. 1990)
  • 19th » Mitja Ribičič, Italian-Slovenian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2013)
  • 20th » George Gobel, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
  • 21st » George P. Mitchell, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
  • 22nd » Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
  • 23rd » Robert Bernstein (comics) called Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (d. 1988)
  • 23rd » Gayatri Devi, English-Indian wife of Prince Jagat Singh (d. 2009)
  • 23rd » Avraham Drori, Polish-Israeli politician (d. 1964)
  • 23rd » Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican singer and politician (d. 2012)
  • 23rd » Betty Garrett, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2011)
  • 26th » Rubén González (pianist) known as Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club and Estrellas de Areito) (d. 2003)
  • 29th » Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic
  • 30th » René Barrientos, Bolivian general and politician, 55th President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
  • 31st » Huy Cận, Vietnamese poet (d. 2005)
  • 31st » Robie Macauley, American author and critic (d. 1995)

Famous Deaths for May 1919

  • 4th » Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (b. 1880)
  • 6th » L. Frank Baum, American author (b. 1856)
  • 14th » Henry J. Heinz, American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
  • 17th » Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist, author, and poet (b. 1848)
  • 21st » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
  • 24th » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (b. 1870)
  • 25th » Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840)
  • 25th » Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867)
  • 27th » Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (b. 1848)
  • 29th » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)

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