“May Calendar,” Friend, May 1977, 25
May Calendar
May 1: May Day
May 4: Rhode Island Independence Day
May 5: Boy’s Day—Japan and Hawaii
May 6, 1915: Marvin J. Ashton, of the Council of the Twelve, born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
May 9, 1898: Nathan Eldon Tanner, first counselor in the First Presidency, born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
May 12, 1856: Edward Lear, English artist and poet, born.
May 17, 1918: J. Thomas Fyans, a president of the First Quorum of the Seventy, born in Moreland, Idaho.
May 20, 1932: Aviatrix Amelia Earhart began solo flight across the Atlantic.
May 24, 1909: Bernard P. Brockbank, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1927: Dean L. Larsen, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, born in Hyrum, Utah.
May 28, 1903: O. Leslie Stone, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, born in Chapin, Idaho.