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Month May 1999 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, 1999

  • Day of Week 1st » The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
  • Day of Week 2nd » Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected List of heads of state of Panama or President of Panama.
  • Day of Week 3rd » The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an 1999 Bridge Creek – Moore tornado called F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornad
  • Day of Week 6th » The first elections to the devolution known as devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
  • Day of Week 7th » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox Church e.g Eastern Orthodox country since the East-West Schism or Great Schism in 1054.
  • 7th » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
  • Day of Week 24th » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
  • Day of Week 29th » Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
  • 29th » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1999

  • 5th » Nathan Chen, American figure skater
  • 7th » Masaki Sato, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
  • 11th » Sabrina Carpenter, American actress and singer
  • 18th » Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter
  • 26th » Kerry Ingram, English actress and singer
  • 28th » Cameron Boyce, American actor and dancer

Famous Deaths for May 1999

  • 1st » Jos LeDuc, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1944)
  • 2nd » Augie Blunt, American actor (b. 1929)
  • 2nd » Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1903)
  • 2nd » Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
  • 3rd » Joe Adcock, American baseball player and manager (b. 1927)
  • 3rd » Steve Chiasson, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1967)
  • 3rd » Godfrey Evans, English cricketer (b. 1920)
  • 5th » Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1920)
  • 8th » Dirk Bogarde, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • 8th » Ed Gilbert, American actor (b. 1931)
  • 8th » Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
  • 10th » Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1930)
  • 11th » Giorgos Kappis, Greek actor (b. 1929)
  • 12th » Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American illustrator (b. 1914)
  • 13th » Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Saudi Arabian scholar (b. 1910)
  • 13th » Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
  • 17th » Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian trumpet player and producer (b. 1949)
  • 17th » Lembit Oll, Estonian chess player (b. 1966)
  • 18th » Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954)
  • 18th » Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
  • 19th » James Blades, English drummer (Melos Ensemble) (b. 1901)
  • 19th » Candy Candido, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
  • 23rd » Owen Hart, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1965)
  • 26th » Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
  • 26th » Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (b. 1898)
  • 28th » Michael Barkai, Israeli commander (b. 1935)
  • 28th » B. Vittalacharya, Indian director and producer (b. 1920)
  • 30th » Kalju Lepik, Estonian poet (b. 1920)
  • 31st » Neil Shanahan, Irish race car driver (b. 1979)

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