page_title: May
section_title: Trivia
hierarchical_section_title: May / Trivia
caption_attribution_description: ロサ　キネンシス　Rosa chinensis
context_page_description: May is the fifth month of the year, coming between April and June. It has 31 days. The month of May might have been named for the Roman goddess Maia, or more likely the Roman goddess of fertility Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May.
  May never begins or ends on the same day of the week as any other month.
  May's flower is the Lily of the Valley. Its birthstone is the emerald. The meaning of the emerald is success in love.
context_section_description: The floral symbol of May is the Rosa chinensis.
  May is the only month that never begins (June is the other) nor ends (September is the other) on the same day of the week as any other months within any calendar year.
  Along with March, May is one of two months in the English language that start with 'M' and have an 'A' as their second letter. They surround the month of April.
  In the English language, May has the shortest name of all the months of the year.
  The astrological signs for May are Taurus (April 21 to May 20) and Gemini (May 21 to June 20).
  May is the second of three months in a row, in the English language, that can also be a female given name, along with April and June.
  May 1 is the only day in May to be entirely within the first third of the calendar year.
  "May" backwards is "Yam", the name of a fruit.
  Two 20th century US Presidents were born in May - Harry S. Truman (May 8) and John F. Kennedy (May 29).
  No President of the United States, to-date, has died in May, though James Buchanan narrowly avoided doing so, dying on the morning of June 1, 1868.
caption: The Rosa chinensis is a flower symbolizing May.
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