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, 1943
Day of Week 11th » World War II: American troops Battle of Attu e.g invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
Day of Week 13th » World War II: German Afrika Korps and Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) Fascism (1922–1943) or Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allies of World War II known as Allied forces.
Day of Week 14th » World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks Ship or AHS e.g Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
Day of Week 15th » Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or 'Third International').
Day of Week 16th » The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
Day of Week 17th » World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on Nazi Germany named German dams.
Day of Week 19th » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
12th » Tom Sawyer, Baron Sawyer, English academic and politician
13th » Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, English lawyer and judge
13th » Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter and sculptor
13th » Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
14th » Jack Bruce, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player (Cream (band) known as Cream, Blues Incorporated, The Graham Bond Organisation, and West, Bruce and Laing)
14th » L. Denis Desautels, Canadian accountant and civil servant
14th » Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Icelandic politician, 5th President of Iceland
14th » Richard Peto, English statistician and epidemiologist