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Month May 2006 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, 2006

  • Day of Week 1st » The Puerto Rico e.g Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
  • Day of Week 5th » The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
  • Day of Week 12th » May 2006 São Paulo violence called Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
  • 12th » Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, Iran newspaper cockroach cartoon controversy called resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
  • Day of Week 13th » 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
  • Day of Week 17th » The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany CV-34 6 is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
  • Day of Week 18th » The post 2006 democracy movement in Nepal named Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the Kingdom of Nepal e.g monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
  • Day of Week 20th » 2006 Dhaka strikes called Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes begin, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh.
  • Day of Week 21st » The Republic of Montenegro holds a Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 named referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
  • Day of Week 23rd » Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland (Alaska) or Mount Cleveland erupts.
  • Day of Week 27th » The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta (city) e.g Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.

Famous Deaths for May 2006

  • 1st » Big Hawk, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (b. 1969)
  • 1st » Rob Lacey, English actor and author (b. 1962)
  • 2nd » Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (b. 1933)
  • 3rd » Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (b. 1921)
  • 3rd » Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
  • 3rd » Earl Woods, American colonel, baseball player, and author (b. 1932)
  • 5th » Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919)
  • 6th » Lillian Asplund, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1906)
  • 6th » Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
  • 6th » Grant McLennan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens and Jack Frost (band) called Jack Frost) (b. 1958)
  • 6th » Lorne Saxberg, Canadian journalist (b. 1958)
  • 7th » Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)
  • 7th » Joan C. Edwards, American singer (b. 1918)
  • 7th » Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (b. 1943)
  • 8th » Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (b. 1938)
  • 10th » Soraya (musician) e.g Soraya, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
  • 10th » Val Guest, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
  • 10th » Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
  • 10th » A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1922)
  • 11th » Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932)
  • 11th » Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
  • 11th » Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921)
  • 12th » Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
  • 12th » Gillespie V. Montgomery, American general and politician (b. 1920)
  • 13th » Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (b. 1923)
  • 13th » Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave (band) called Heatwave) (b. 1949)
  • 14th » Lew Anderson, American actor and saxophonist (b. 1922)
  • 14th » Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
  • 14th » Eva Norvind, Mexican actress, director, and producer (b. 1944)
  • 17th » Cy Feuer, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1911)
  • 17th » Eric Forth, Scottish-English politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (b. 1944)
  • 17th » Nichola Goddard, Papua New Guinean-Canadian captain (b. 1980)
  • 18th » Andrew Martinez, American activist (b. 1972)
  • 19th » Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
  • 21st » Spencer Clark (racing driver) named Spencer Clark, American race car driver (b. 1987)
  • 21st » Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, and author (b. 1909)
  • 21st » Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • 21st » Billy Walker (musician) named Billy Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
  • 22nd » Heather Crowe, Canadian waitress and activist (b. 1945)
  • 22nd » Lee Jong-wook, South Korean diplomat (b. 1945)
  • 23rd » Clifford Antone, American businessman (b. 1949)
  • 23rd » Lloyd Bentsen, American politician, 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1921)
  • 23rd » Ian Copeland, Syrian-American talent agent (b. 1949)
  • 23rd » Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1921)
  • 24th » Jesús Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican murderer (b. 1963)
  • 24th » Henry Bumstead, American art director and production designer (b. 1915)
  • 24th » Claude Piéplu, French actor (b. 1923)
  • 24th » Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician and educator (b. 1930)
  • 25th » Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
  • 26th » Édouard Michelin (born 1963) e.g Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
  • 27th » Rob Borsellino, American journalist (b. 1949)
  • 27th » Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
  • 27th » Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
  • 27th » Alex Toth, American illustrator and animator (b. 1928)
  • 27th » Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor and composer (b. 1944)
  • 28th » Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian ski jumper and author (b. 1920)
  • 29th » Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (b. 1930)
  • 29th » Steve Mizerak, American Pool (cue sports) known as pool player (b. 1944)
  • 30th » Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
  • 30th » David Lloyd (botanist) known as David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
  • 30th » Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
  • 31st » Ryan Bennett (sportscaster) named Ryan Bennett, American sportscaster (b. 1970)
  • 31st » Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (b. 1933)
  • 31st » Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
  • 31st » Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter (b. 1930)

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