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Month May 2011 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, 2011

  • Day of Week 1st » Pope John Paul II is Beatification e.g beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
  • 1st » Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has been Death of Osama bin Laden killed by United States Navy SEALs United States special forces in Abbottabad Abbottabad, Pakistan. Due to the time dif
  • Day of Week 2nd » An 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak named E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
  • Day of Week 13th » 2011 Charsadda bombing or 2 bombs explode in the Charsadda District, Pakistan called Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
  • Day of Week 16th » STS-134 (ISS assembly sequence e.g ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for OV known as 105.
  • Day of Week 18th » 22 people are killed when Sol Líneas Aéreas Flight 5428 crashes in southern Argentina.
  • Day of Week 21st » Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the 2011 end times prediction or end of the world would occur on this day, a prophecy that would prove incorrect.
  • Day of Week 22nd » 2011 Joplin tornado or An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion worth in damage—the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
  • Day of Week 25th » Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show'.
  • Day of Week 28th » Malta Maltese divorce referendum, 2011 named votes on the introduction of divorce.

Famous Deaths for May 2011

  • 1st » Ted Lowe, English sportscaster (b. 1920)
  • 1st » Henry Cooper, English boxer (b. 1934)
  • 2nd » Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded Al-Qaeda (b. 1957)
  • 3rd » Jackie Cooper, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1922)
  • 3rd » Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer and manager (b. 1936)
  • 3rd » Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor and director (b. 1927)
  • 4th » Mary Murphy (actress) called Mary Murphy, American actress (b. 1931)
  • 5th » Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901)
  • 5th » Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924)
  • 5th » Dana Wynter, German-English actress (b. 1931)
  • 7th » Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
  • 7th » Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
  • 7th » Big George, English songwriter, producer, and radio host (b. 1957)
  • 7th » Allyson Hennessy, Trinidadian journalist (b. 1948)
  • 8th » Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (b. 1948)
  • 9th » Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
  • 10th » Michael Baze, American jockey (b. 1987)
  • 11th » Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist (b. 1911)
  • 11th » Leo Kahn (entrepreneur) e.g Leo Kahn, American businessman, co-founded Staples Inc. (b. 1916)
  • 11th » Reach Sambath, Cambodian journalist (b. 1964)
  • 11th » Elisabeth Svendsen, English activist, founded The Donkey Sanctuary (b. 1930)
  • 11th » Robert Traylor, American basketball player (b. 1977)
  • 11th » Glyn Williams (footballer) named Glyn Williams, Welsh footballer (b. 1918)
  • 11th » Snooky Young, American trumpet player (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and Count Basie Orchestra) (b. 1919)
  • 13th » Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
  • 13th » Wallace McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1930)
  • 13th » Bruce Ricker, American director and producer (b. 1942)
  • 13th » Alain Voss, Brazilian-French illustrator (b. 1946)
  • 15th » Barbara Stuart, American actress (b. 1930)
  • 16th » Ralph Barker, English author (b. 1917)
  • 16th » Bob Davis (Australian rules footballer) known as Bob Davis, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1928)
  • 16th » Edward Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1932)
  • 16th » Kiyoshi Kodama, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
  • 17th » Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1936)
  • 19th » Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician, 8th Taoiseach called Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1926)
  • 20th » Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor (b. 1952)
  • 22nd » Joseph Brooks (songwriter) known as Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938)
  • 23rd » Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1978)
  • 24th » Huguette Clark, French-American painter and philanthropist (b. 1906)
  • 24th » Hakim Ali Zardari Indian-Pakistani politician (b. 1930)
  • 25th » Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1944)
  • 26th » Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author, and playwright (b. 1920)
  • 27th » Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (b. 1950)
  • 27th » Margo Dydek, Polish-American basketball player (b. 1974)
  • 27th » Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949)
  • 28th » Alys Robi, Canadian singer (b. 1923)
  • 29th » Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (b. 1949)
  • 29th » Bill Clements, American soldier and politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
  • 29th » Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, 14th List of heads of state of Hungary named President of Hungary (b. 1931)
  • 30th » Ricky Bruch, Swedish discus thrower and actor (b. 1946)
  • 30th » Isikia Savua, Fijian diplomat (b. 1952)
  • 30th » Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1942)
  • 30th » Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
  • 30th » Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (b. 1970)
  • 30th » Tillmann Uhrmacher, German DJ and producer (b. 1967)
  • 30th » Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
  • 31st » Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)
  • 31st » Jonas Bevacqua, American fashion designer, co-founded the Lifted Research Group (b. 1977)
  • 31st » Derek Hodge, Virgin Islander lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1941)
  • 31st » Hans Keilson, German-Dutch psychoanalyst and author (b. 1909)
  • 31st » John Martin (Royal Navy officer) e.g John Martin, English admiral and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (b. 1918)
  • 31st » Adolfas Mekas, Lithuanian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
  • 31st » Andy Robustelli, American football player and manager (b. 1925)
  • 31st » Grant Sullivan (actor) called Grant Sullivan, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 31st » Sølvi Wang, Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1929)

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