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, 1933
Day of Week 1st » The Roca–Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
1st » The Humanist Manifesto I published.
Day of Week 2nd » 'Gleichschaltung': Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
Day of Week 8th » Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against the British rule in India.
Day of Week 10th » Censorship: In Germany, the Nazism e.g Nazis stage Nazi book burnings known as massive public book burnings.
Day of Week 12th » The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers Subsidy known as subsidies.
Day of Week 17th » Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the Nazism e.g national-socialist party of Norway.
Day of Week 18th » New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Day of Week 27th » New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1933
2nd » Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales