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, 2000
Day of Week 2nd » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate Global Positioning System or GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States Armed Forces called United States military.
Day of Week 3rd » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a Global Positioning System e.g GPS posted on Usenet.
Day of Week 4th » Ken Livingstone becomes the London mayoral election, 2000 e.g first Mayor of London.
Day of Week 7th » Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
Day of Week 11th » Second Chechen War: Chechen people named Chechen separatists Galashki ambush e.g ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
Day of Week 13th » In Enschede, the Netherlands, a Enschede fireworks disaster known as fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
Day of Week 17th » Arsenal F.C. or Arsenal and Galatasaray S.K. e.g Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
Day of Week 24th » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
Day of Week 25th » Liberation Day (Lebanon) Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanon Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first Operation Litani invasion in 1978.