Month May 1922 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, 1922

• Day of Week 10th » The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
• Day of Week 19th » The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established.
• Day of Week 30th » The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..

Famous Birthdays on May in 1922

• 1st » Alastair Gillespie, Canadian politician
• 2nd » Serge Reggiani, Italian-French actor and singer (d. 2004)
• 2nd » A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian journalist (d. 2006)
• 3rd » Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist (d. 2000)
• 4th » Paul-Émile Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop
• 5th » Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish-American nurse (d. 2003)
• 6th » Vladimir Etush, Russian actor
• 6th » Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (d. 1999)
• 7th » Lew Anderson, American actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 7th » Darren McGavin, American actor and director (d. 2006)
• 8th » Mary Q. Steele, American naturalist and author (d. 1992)
• 10th » David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)
• 10th » Nancy Walker, American actress and director (d. 1992)
• 11th » Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1992)
• 11th » Thelma Eisen, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
• 11th » Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino lawyer and jurist
• 12th » Marco Denevi, Argentinian author (d. 1998)
• 12th » Murray Gershenz, American actor (d. 2013)
• 12th » Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 1991)
• 12th » Roy Salvadori, English race car driver and manager (d. 2012)
• 13th » Michael Ainsworth, English cricketer (d. 1978)
• 13th » Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (d. 1991)
• 13th » Bea Arthur, American actress and singer (d. 2009)
• 14th » Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general and politician, 1st President of Croatia (d. 1999)
• 15th » Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (d. 2013)
• 15th » Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese nun and author
• 16th » Eddie Bert, American trombonist (d. 2012)
• 18th » Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian psychologist (d. 2005)
• 18th » Bill Macy, American actor
• 18th » Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (d. 1983)
• 19th » Joe Gilmore, Irish bartender
• 22nd » Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1987)
• 25th » Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
• 25th » Kitty Kallen, American singer
• 26th » Troy Smith (businessman) or Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In (d. 2009)
• 27th » Christopher Lee, English actor and singer
• 27th » John D. Vanderhoof, American politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (d. 2013)
• 28th » Lou Duva, American boxing trainer and manager
• 28th » Roger Fisher (academic) called Roger Fisher, American author and academic (d. 2012)
• 28th » Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish sergeant
• 29th » Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist (d. 2001)
• 30th » Hal Clement, American author (d. 2003)
• 31st » Denholm Elliott, English-Spanish actor (d. 1992)

Famous Deaths for May 1922

• 4th » Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (b. 1888)
• 7th » Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
• 18th » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)

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