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“Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire mirth, and youth, and warm desire;
woods and groves are of thy dressing, hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.”
~John Milton~

Knowledge House Guide to
HOLIDAYS & SPECIAL DAYS

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May is...

MAY CALENDAR
1 May Day
Mother Goose Day
Lei Day (Hawaii)
Whale Awareness Day (MA)


2 King James Bible Published (1611)
Holocaust Day
Space Day


3 Day of the Holy Cross (Mexico)

4 National Weather Observer's Day
Youth Day (China)


5 Cinco de Mayo, commemorating the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla (celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla and in the U.S.)
Children’s Day (Japan)
Cartoonist Day


6 Hindenburg Disaster (1937)

7 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Premiere (1824)
Germany Surrenders to Allied Forces at General Eisenhower's Headquarters (1945)


8 V-E (Victory in Europe) Day
World Red Cross Day


9 Victory Day (Russia)

10 Central and Union Pacific Railroads Meet in Promontory, Utah (1869)
International Migratory Bird Day


11 Massive Dust Storm Sweeps Across Great Plains to Eastern U.S. (1934)

12 Limerick Day
Edward Lear's Birthday (1812)
California Gold Rush Begins (1848)


13 National Etiquette Week* (second week in May)

14 Jamestown Colony Anniversary (1607)
Lewis & Clark Expedition Departs (1804)
Israel re-emerges as a nation (1948)
Jumping Frog Jubilee (Angels Camp, CA)*


15 L. Frank Baum's Birthday (1856)
Police Officer Memorial Day


16 Biographers Day

17 New York Stock Exchange Founded (1792)

18 International Museum Day
Mount Saint Helens Eruption (1980)


19 Circus Day
Anniversary of First Ringling Bros. Circus Performance (1884)
Boys' Clubs Founded, which later became the Boys' and Girls' Clubs of America (1906)


20 Council of Nicaea (AD 325)
Weights & Measures Day
Charles Lindbergh's Solo Nonstop Transatlantic Flight (1927)
Amelia Earhart's Atlantic Crossing (1932)


21 American Red Cross Anniversary (1881)

22 Jerusalem Day
National Maritime Day
International Day for Biological Diversity


23 World Turtle Day

24 International Jazz Day

25 African Freedom Day
Constitutional Convention Anniversary (1787)
National Missing Children's Day
National Tap Dance Day


26 Memorial Day

27 Cellophane Tape Patented (1930)
Golden Gate Bridge Opened (1937)


28 Sierra Club founded by John Muir (1892)

29 John F. Kennedy's Birthday (1917)
Mount Everest Summit Reached by Edmund Hillary (1953)


30 Saint Joan of Arc Feast Day
First Daily American Newspaper Published (1783)


31 First U.S. Copyright Law (1790)
Walt Whitman's Birthday (1819)
Johnstown Flood (1889)
No Tobacco Day


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*These dates change from year to year; check current calendar.
(National Days are American holidays unless stated otherwise.)

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