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, 1955
Day of Week 2nd » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'.
Day of Week 12th » Austria regains its independence as the Allied-occupied Austria named Allied occupation following World War II ends.
Day of Week 14th » Cold War: Eight Communism e.g Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
Day of Week 18th » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese people or Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Union known as French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First In
Day of Week 25th » In the United States, a night-time Fujita scale e.g F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
25th » First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans (mountaineer) named Charles Evans. Joe Brown (climber) or Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by N