Month May 2005 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, 2005

• Day of Week 10th » A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 meters) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia (country) or Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
• Day of Week 13th » The May 2005 unrest in Uzbekistan known as Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
• 13th » The Bính Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
• Day of Week 18th » A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix (moon) or Nix and Hydra (moon) called Hydra.
• Day of Week 21st » The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
• Day of Week 31st » 'Vanity Fair (magazine) known as Vanity Fair' reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat (Watergate) or Deep Throat.

Famous Deaths for May 2005

• 1st » Kenneth Clark (psychologist) named Kenneth Clark, American psychologist (b. 1914)
• 2nd » Wee Kim Wee, Singaporean politician, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
• 4th » David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930)
• 5th » Elisabeth Fraser, American actress (b. 1920)
• 5th » Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (b. 1974)
• 7th » Tristan Egolf, American author and activist (b. 1971)
• 7th » Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
• 7th » Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
• 8th » Jean Carrière, French author (b. 1928)
• 8th » Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1981)
• 10th » David Wayne (musician) David Wayne, American singer-songwriter (Metal Church, Reverend (band) Reverend, and Wayne (band) Wayne) (b. 1958)
• 11th » Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• 11th » Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1917)
• 12th » Martin Lings, English author and scholar (b. 1909)
• 12th » Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress (b. 1937)
• 13th » Eddie Barclay, French record producer, founded Barclay Records (b. 1921)
• 13th » George Dantzig, American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
• 13th » Michael Bruce Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
• 15th » Alan B. Gold, Canadian jurist (b. 1917)
• 16th » Andrew Goodpaster, American general (b. 1915)
• 17th » Frank Gorshin, American actor (b. 1934)
• 19th » Henry Corden, Canadian-American actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 20th » Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
• 20th » William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)
• 21st » Howard Morris, American actor and director (b. 1919)
• 22nd » Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
• 22nd » Julia Randall, American poet and academic (b. 1924)
• 22nd » Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 24th » Carl Amery, German activist and author (b. 1922)
• 24th » Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (b. 1913)
• 24th » Vivian Liberto, American author (b. 1934)
• 24th » Guy Tardif, Canadian politician (b. 1935)
• 25th » Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1929)
• 25th » Robert Jankel, English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (b. 1938)
• 25th » Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
• 25th » Graham Kennedy, Australian actor and game show host (b. 1934)
• 25th » Zoran Mušič, Slovene painter, graphic artist, and draughtsman (b. 1909)
• 26th » Eddie Albert, American actor and singer (b. 1906)
• 26th » Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (b. 1928)
• 26th » Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
• 26th » Leslie Smith (businessman) known as Leslie Smith, English businessman, co-founded Lesney Products (b. 1918)
• 29th » Hamilton Naki, South African surgeon (b. 1926)
• 29th » George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
• 30th » Fazal Mahmood, Indian-Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
• 30th » Tomasz Pacyński, Polish author (b. 1958)
• 30th » Alma Ziegler, American baseball player (b. 1918)

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