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, 1960
Day of Week 1st » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Also known as "Maharashtra Day".
1st » Cold War: 1960 U-2 incident called U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
Day of Week 3rd » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Day of Week 6th » More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon known as Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon known as Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
Day of Week 7th » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American Lockheed U-2 named U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
Day of Week 10th » The nuclear submarine USS Triton SSRN-586 6 completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
Day of Week 11th » In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazism named Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
Day of Week 13th » Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee called House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free
Day of Week 16th » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
Day of Week 22nd » An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the 1960 Valdivia earthquake e.g Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
Day of Week 24th » Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Puyehue-Cordón Caulle 1960 eruption known as Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
20th » Jay Schellen, American drummer (Hurricane (band) Hurricane, Asia (band) Asia, GPS (band) GPS, Circa (band) Circa, and World Trade (band) World Trade)