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, 1891
Day of Week 5th » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
Day of Week 11th » The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1891
3rd » Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic (d. 1969)
7th » Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
10th » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (d. 1934)
15th » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian author and playwright (d. 1940)
15th » Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (d. 1971)
16th » Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor and actor (d. 1948)
17th » Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
17th » Napoleon Zervas, Greek general (d. 1957)
18th » Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher (d. 1970)
19th » Oswald Boelcke, German captain and pilot (d. 1916)
22nd » Eddie Edwards (musician) or Eddie Edwards, American baseball player and trombonist (Original Dixieland Jazz Band) (d. 1963)
23rd » Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
24th » William F. Albright, American archeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971)
27th » Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (d. 1965)
27th » Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and writer (d. 1958)