Month May 1996 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, 1996

• Day of Week 6th » The body of former Central Intelligence Agency named CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• Day of Week 11th » The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
• Day of Week 13th » Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
• Day of Week 20th » LGBT rights in the United States or Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in 'Romer v. Evans' against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicia
• Day of Week 21st » The ferry MV or Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
• 21st » The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead.
• Day of Week 27th » First Chechnya War: the President of Russia named Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1996

• 3rd » Mary Cain (athlete) named Mary Cain, American runner
• 3rd » Noah Munck, American actor
• 3rd » Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 4th » Tanja Tuomi, Finnish tennis player
• 6th » Dominic Scott Kay, American actor
• 9th » Saron Läänmäe, Estonian footballer
• 10th » Kateřina Siniaková, Czech tennis player
• 11th » Valeria Patiuk, Israeli tennis player
• 12th » You Xiaodi, Chinese tennis player
• 14th » Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ and producer
• 15th » Birdy (musician) or Birdy, English singer-songwriter
• 16th » Louisa Chirico, American tennis player
• 17th » Ryan Ochoa, American actor
• 21st » Indy de Vroome, Dutch tennis player
• 30th » Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player

Famous Deaths for May 1996

• 1st » Luana Patten, American actress (b. 1938)
• 3rd » Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist, composer, and educator (b. 1921)
• 3rd » Alex Kellner, American baseball player (b. 1924)
• 3rd » Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
• 8th » Beryl Burton, English cyclist (b. 1937)
• 8th » Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1926)
• 8th » Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912)
• 8th » Larry Levis, American poet (b. 1946)
• 11th » Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian journalist and politician, 1st President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
• 11th » Rodney Culver, American football player (b. 1969)
• 11th » Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961)
• 11th » Candi Kubeck, American captain and pilot (b. 1961)
• 11th » Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1922)
• 11th » Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949)
• 11th » Sam Ragan, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 15th » Charles B. Fulton, American lawyer and judge (b. 1910)
• 16th » Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939)
• 17th » Scott Brayton, American race car driver (b. 1959)
• 17th » Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1966)
• 17th » Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American singer and guitarist (b. 1935)
• 19th » John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (b. 1917)
• 20th » Jon Pertwee, English actor (b. 1919)
• 21st » Paul Delph, American singer-songwriter and producer (Zahara (band) named Zahara) (b. 1957)
• 21st » Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (b. 1917)
• 23rd » Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1934)
• 24th » Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
• 24th » Joseph Mitchell (writer) named Joseph Mitchell, American journalist (b. 1908)
• 25th » Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and politician (b. 1929)
• 25th » Bradley Nowell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sublime (band) e.g Sublime) (b. 1968)
• 29th » Tamara Toumanova, Siberian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
• 30th » Léon-Étienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903)
• 30th » Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (b. 1961)
• 31st » Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (b. 1920)

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