May Celebrations

May Celebrations


Monthly Events:

ALS Awareness Month (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease)
American Bike Month
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Asparagus Month
Awareness of Medical Orphans Month
Barbecue Month
Better Hearing and Speech Month
Better Hearing Month
Better Sleep Month
Blossom Month
Breathe Easy Month
California State Parks Month
Clean Air Month
Correct Posture Month
Creative Beginnings Month
Date Your Mate Month
Displaced Homemakers and Single Parents Month
Family Support Month
Family Wellness Month
Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
Flower Month
Freedom Shrine Month
Fungal Infection Awareness Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Hamburger Month
Heal the Children Month
Healthy Vision Month
High Blood Pressure Education Month
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
International Business Image Improvement Month
International Victorious Woman Month
Learn German Month
May Flowers
Military Appreciation Month
Modern Dance Month
Moms Are Marvelous Month
Month of Mary
National Allergy/Asthma Month
National Arthritis Month
National Barbecue Month
National Beef Month
National Bike Month
National Birds of Prey Month
National Business Image Awareness Month
National Correct Posture Month
National Digestive Disease Awareness Month
National Duckling Month
National Egg Month
National Electrical Safety Month
National Family Month: May 14 to June 18
National Foster Care Month
National Good Car Care Month
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Guy Pride Month
National Hamburger Month
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National High Blood Pressure Month
National Meditation Month
National Mental Health Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Motorcycle Safety Month
National Moving Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Month
National Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
National Older Americans Month
National Osteoporosis Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
National Preservation Month
National Promote your ideas Month
National Revise Your Work Schedule Month
National Safety Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
National Scholarship Month
National Scrapbooking Month
National Shoes For Orphans Month
National Sight-Saving Month
National Smile Month
National Strawberry Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Teaching and Joy Month
Navajo Code Talkers Month
Older Americans Month
Peace of Mind Month
Personal History Awareness Month
Personal History Month
Photo Month
Prepare to Buy A Home Month
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month (5/13 - 6/17)
Project Safe Baby Month
React Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Salad Month
Salsa Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Strawberry Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sweet Vidalia Onions Month
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Month
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
Teen Self-Esteem Month
Transportation Month
Women's Health Care Month
Young Achiever's Month


Weekly Events:

Cartoon Appreciation Week - First Week
Child Care Awareness Week - First Week
Clear Air Week - First Week
Connecting Week - 1-7
Eat Dessert First Week - 1-7
Flexible Work Arrangements - First Week
Food Allergy Awareness Week - First Week
Get Happy Week - 1-7
Jewish Heritage Week - First Week
National Computer Education Week - First Week
National Fairy Godmother Week - 1-7
National Family Reading Week - First Week
National Family Week - First Week
National Herb Week - First Week
National Music Week - First Week
National Nurses Week - First Week
National Postcard Week - First Week
National Raisin Week - First Week
National Safe Kids Week - First Week
National Teacher Appreciation Week - First Week
National Tourism Week - First Week
Pen Friends Week - 1-7
Raisin Week - 1-7
Read Me Week - First Week
Tim and Tom Gullikson Week - 1-8
Water/Detect-a-Leak Week - First Week
Be Kind To Animals Week - 6-12
Flexible Work Arrangement Week - 6-12
Girls Incorporated Week - Second Week
Goodwill Industries Week - 6-12
Hug Holiday Week - 6-12
Life Coach Recognition Week - 7-13
Music Week - 6-13
National Bike Week - Second Week
National Etiquette Week - Second Week
National Family Week - 6-12
National Historic Preservation Week - Second Week
National Hospital Week - Second Week
National Hug Holiday Week - 6-12
National Music Week - Second Week
National Nurses Day and Week - 6-12
National Pet Week - Second Week - 6-12
National Police Week - Second Week
National PTA Teachers Appreciation Week - 7-13
National Wildflower Week - 7-12
Nurses Week - 6-12
Pet Week - 6-13
Teacher Appreciation Week - 6-12
Universal Family Week - Second Week
Wildflower Week - 7-13
Astronomy Week - Third Week
Buckle Up America! Week - Third Week
Hurricane Awareness Week- Third Week
Kiwanis Prayer Week - 13-19
Medic Alert Awareness Week - Third Week
National Alcohol and Other Drug Related Birth Defects Week - 13-19
National Backyard Games week - Third Week
National Dog Bite Prevention Week - 19-25
National New Friends, Old Friends Week - Third Week
National Nursing Home Week - 13-19
National Police Week - 13-19
National Running & Fitness Week - 15-21
National Safe Boating Week - 18-25
National Stuttering Awareness Week - 14-20
National Tourism Week - 12-20
National Transportation Week - Third Week
National Transportation Week - 13-19
National Women's Health Week - 13-19
Reading is Fun Week - 13-19
Running and Fitness Week - Third Week
Salvation Army Week - 13-19
Surgical Technologist Week - Third Week
Work At Home Moms Week - 13-19
Tourism Week - 12-20
International Online Romance Week - 13-19
Police Week - 13-19
Christian Family Week - 13-19
Cover the Uninsured Week - 23-29
Emergency Medical Services Week - 20-26
Friends Week - 20-26
Good Stewardship Week - Fourth Week
International Pickle Week - 18-28
Medical Transcriptionist Week - 20-26
National Backyard Games Week - 21-28
National Effectiveness Week - 20-26
National Etiquette Week - 21-27
National Medical Transcription Week - 20-26
National New Friends, Old Friends Week - 20-26
National Pickle Week - Fourth Week
National Safe Boating Week - Fourth Week
National Shoe Week - Fourth Week
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self Governing Territories - 25-31
World Trade Week - 20-26


Daily Events:

1- Amtrak's Birthday (Amtrak began passenger operations in 1971.)
1- Batman's Birthday 1939
1- Beltaine
1- Calamity Jane's Birthday
1- Cheerios Birthday 1941
1- Chocolate Parfait Day
1- Couple Appreciation Day!
1- Disney's MGM Studio Birthday 1989
1- Empire State Building Birthday 1931
1- Executive Coaching Day
1- Frequent Flyer Day
1- Global Love Day
1- Golfing Association Birthday 1744
1- Hawaiian Lei Day
1- Labor Day
1- Labor Day in Mexico & Canada
1- Law Day
1- Lei Day
1- Lei Day (Hawaii)
1- Library Legislative Day
1- Loyalty Day
1- Make-A-Book Day
1- May Day
1- Mother Goose Day
1- National River Clean Up Day
1- New Homeowner's Day
1- Plant a Flower Day
1- Save the Rhino Day
1- School Principals Day
1- Stepmother's Day
1- Worthy Wage Day

2- Baby Day
2- Be Kind to Smelly People Day
2- Brother/Sister Day
2- Dr. Benjamin Spock's Birthday 1903
2- Full Moon Day
2- National Baby's day
2- National Day of Prayer
2- National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
2- Roberts Rule of Order Day
2- Sibling Appreciation Day
2- Take a Baby to Lunch Day
2- Truffles Day

3- Cinco de Mayo (Texas)
3- Colored Comic Book Birthday
3- Day of the Holy Cross (Mexico)
3-5 - Emmett Kelly Clown Day
3- Hug Your Cat Day
3- Kite Day
3- Lumpy Rug Day
3- Make-A-Book Day
3- Martin Z. Mollusk Day
3- National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day
3- National Day of Prayer
3- National Day of Reason
3- National Public Radio Day
3- National Scrapbook Day
3- Paranormal Day
3- Raspberry Popover Day
3- Sears Tower Birthday
3- Sun Day
3- Wordsmith Day
3- World Press Freedom Day

4- 4-H Birthday 1901
4- Baseball League Day
4- Cartoonists Day
4- Remembrance Holocaust Remembrance Day
4- Grammy Awards Birthday
4- International Firefighters' Day
4- International Respect for Chickens Day
4- International Tuba Day
4- Lunar Roving Vehicle Birthday 1971
4- Naked Day
4- National Candied Orange Peel Day
4- National Kids Fitness Day
4- National Weather Observers Day
4- Orange Juice Day
4- Relationship Renewal Day
4- Shabbat Across America/Canada Day
4- Significant Other's Day
4- Space Day
4- Susan's Birthday (Sesame Street)
4- Youth Day In China
4 - Garage Sale Day

5- Cartoonists Day
5- Children's Day in Japan
5- Chocolate Custard Day
5- Cinco De Mayo
5- Derby Day
5- First American in Space
5- First Perfect Baseball Game. (In 1904, Cy Young pitches the first perfect game.)
5- Free Comic Book Day
5- Halfway Point of Spring
5- Hoagie Day
5- Homebrew Day
5- International Midwives' Day
5- Join Hands Day
5- Kentucky Derby
5- Make-up Junkie Day
5- Museum Lover's Day
5- Pilates Day
5- Scrapbook Day
5- Totally Chipotle Day
5- Yosemite Sam's Birthday

6- American Lung Association Birthday
6- Anniversary of Babe Ruth's first Major League Home Run in 1915
6- Beverage Day
6- Do Dah Day
6- Freud Day
6- International No Diet Day
6- Joseph Brackett Day
6- National Beverage Day
6- National Hoagie Day
6- National Infertility Survival Day
6- National Nurse's Day
6- National River Clean Up Day
6- No Diet Day
6- No Homework Day
6- Nurses Day
6- O. Henry Pun Day
6- School Family Day
6- Unmother's Day
6- Willie May's Birthday

7- Childhood Depression Awareness Day
7- Fire Escape Ladder Birthday
7- Great Lakes Awareness Day
7- International Tuba Day
7- Melanoma Monday
7- National Scrapbooking Day
7- National Tourism Day
7- Paste-up Day
7- Roast Leg of Lamb Day
7- Robert Browning's Birthday
7- School Day
7- Unity in Diversity Day

8- Harry S. Truman's Birthday 1884
8- Have A Coke Day
8- Mad Magazine Birthday
8- Nation Coconut Cream Pie Day
8- National Teacher's Day
8- No Socks Day
8- Senior Citizens Day
8- Student Nurses Day
8- Teacher Day
8- V E Day
8- World Red Cross Day

9- Dagwood's Birthday (Blondie)
9- First Newspaper Cartoon (In the USA in 1754.)
9- Great Northern Beans Day
9- Hurray for Buttons Day
9- Lost Sock Memorial Day
9- National Night Shift Workers Day
9- National School Nurse Day
9- National Third Shift Workers Day
9- National Windmill day
9- Sir John Barbie's Birthday (Author of Peter Pan.)
9- Tear the Tags Off the Mattress Day

10- Blood Pressure Day
10- Clean Up Your Room Day
10- Donate A Day's Wages To Charity Day
10- Golden Spike Day
10- Homer Simpson's Birthday
10- Lipton's Birthday
10- National Receptionist Day
10- National Small Business Day!
10- Trust Your Intuition Day

11- Chair Day
11- Child Care Provider Day
11- Eat What You Want Day
11-13- International Migratory Bird Day
11- Jigsaw Puzzle Day
11- Lilac Festival (New York)
11- Military Spouse Appreciation Day
11- Minnesota Day
11- National Family Child Care Provider's Appreciation Day
11- National Military Spouse Appreciation Day
11- Strawberry Festival (Tennessee)
11- Twilight Zone Day

12- Babysitter's Day
12- Birthmother's Day
12- Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
12- Florence Nightingale's Birthday
12- Goofy's Birthday
12- International Migratory Bird Day
12- Kite Day
12- Limerick Day
12- Mother Ocean Day
12- National Babysitter's Day
12- National Bake Sale Day
12- National Garage Sale Day
12- National Nutty Fudge Day
12- Native American Rights Day
12- Nutty Fudge Day
12- Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
12- Sun Awareness Day
12- Windmill Day
12- World Fair Trade Day

13- Airmail Stamp Birthday (The first U.S. airmail stamp was issued on May 13, 1918.)
13- Babysitter Safety Day
13- Cough Drop Day
13- Cross-Country Helicopter Flight Day (The first cross-country flight via helicopter began in 1942.)
13- Frog Jumping Day
13- I Just Called to Say I Love You Day
13- Leprechaun Day
13- Mother's Day
13- Race for the Cure Day
13- Tulip Day

14- Clean Up Your Street Day
14- Crazy Day
14- Dance Like a Chicken Day
14- Drunk Driving Memorial Day
14- Marshmallow Fluff Birthday
14- Motorcycle Day
14- Motorcycle Riders Day
14- National Dance Like A Chicken Day
14- National Meeting Planners Appreciation Day
14- National Third Shift Workers Day
14- Star Wars Day (George Lucas' Birthday)
14- Stars and Stripes Forever Day
14- Underground America Day

15- Butterfly Day
15- Chocolate Chip Day
15- Clergy Day
15- Dinosaur Bones Discovered
15- Flip Your Mattress Day
15- International Day of Families
15- L.F. Baum's Birthday (Author of the Wizard of Oz stories.)
15- National Bike to Work Day
15- National Chocolate Chip Day
15- National Employee Health & Fitness Day
15- Nylon Stockings Day
15- Over The Rainbow Day
15- Peace Officer Memorial Day

16- Biographer's Day
16- First US Nickel Minted In 1866
16- International Pickle Day
16- Love a Tree Day
16- National Bike to Work Day
16- National Employee Health and Fitness Day
16- National Sea Monkey Day
16- Root Beer Birthday
16- Spaghetti-Os Birthday
16- Spam Birthday
16- Strawberry Festival (West Virginia)
16- Turn Beauty Inside Out Day
16- Wear Purple For Peace Day

17- Ascension of Christ
17- Brown Bag It Thursday
17- Child Safety Awareness Day
17- First Kentucky Derby
17- Kids Helping Kids Day
17- Merry-Go-Round Birthday (In 1620, horses powered the first merry-go-round.)
17- Pack Rat Day
17- Rubber Band Day
17- World Telecommunications Day!

18- Acorn Festival (North Carolina)
18- Celebrate Your Elected Officials Day
18- Dulcimer Days
18- Head Start's Birthday
18- International Museum Day
18- Mount St. Helens Erupted In 1980
18- National Bike to Work Day
18- National Defense Transportation Day
18- National Pizza Party Day
18- No Dirty Dishes day
18- Send An Electronic Greeting Card Day
18- Visit Your Relatives Day
18- Worlds Largest Lego Completed

19- Armed Forces Day
19- Circus Day
19- Frog Jump Day
19- Malcolm X's Birthday
19- May Ray Day
19- NASCAR Day
19- National Be a Millionaire Day
19- Peace Day
19- Plant Something Day
19- Preakness Stakes
19- Circus Day
19- Stagecoach Day
19-20- You Gotta Have Park

20- Be a Millionaire Day
20- Blue Jeans Birthday (In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for blue jeans with riveted pockets.)
20- Eliza Doolittle Day
20- Flower Day
20- International AIDS Candlelight Memorial
20- National Stroke Awareness Day
20- Neighbor Day
20- Pick Strawberries Day
20- Stationery Day
20- Strawberries Day
20- Weight and Measures Day

21- Greek Philosopher's Day
21- I Need A Patch For That Day
21- National Wait Staff Day
21- National Waitresses/Waiters Day
21- Red Cross Founded in US
21- Victoria Day (Canada)
21- World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

22- Buy-A-Musical-Instrument Day
22- International Day for Biological Diversity
22- Maritime Day
22- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Birthday 1967
22- National Maritime Day
22- Skyscraper Day
22- Toothpaste Tube Birthday

23- Bifocals Day
23- Declaration of the Bab Day
23- Mesmerism Day
23- National Pickle Day
23- National Taffy Day
23- Penny Day
23- Sea Turtle Day
23- Victoria Day (Canada)
23- World Turtle Day

24- Asparagus Day
24- Brooklyn Bridge's Birthday. (Finished in 1983.)
24- Brother's Day
24- Escargot Day
24- First Morse Code Message Sent Sent from Washington DC to Baltimore in 1844.
24- Mary Had A Little Lamb Birthday 1830
24- Methodist Church Birthday 1738
24- Night Baseball Day
24- Scavenger Hunt Day
24- Tiara Day
24- Victoria Day (Canada)

25- Africa Day
25- Arthur's Birthday (PBS Character)
25- Indian Motorcycle Birthday 1901
25- International Sing-out Day!
25- National Missing Children's Day
25- National Something day
25- National Tap Dance Day
25- Self Reliance Day
25- Star Wars Birthday (Saga started this date in 1977.)
25- Sweet Corn Festival (Florida)
25- Wine Day
25-28- Old Time Player Piano Day
25-Tap Dance Day

26- Blueberry Cheese Cake Day
26- Bob Day
26- Celebrity Marriage Day
26- Cherry Dessert Day
26- Dracula's Birthday 1897
26- International Jazz Day
26- Julia Pierpont Day
26- National Senior Health and Fitness Day
26- Sally Ride's Birthday

27 - Masking Tape Patented In 1930
27- Auto Race (Indiana)
27- Bridge Day
27- Cellophane tape Patented
27- Golden Gate Bridge Opens 1937
27- Indianapolis 500
27- Mother's Day (Sweden)
27- National Grape Popsicle Day
27- Pentecost
27- Pop-Up Toaster Birthday 1918

28- Daytime Emmy Birthday 1974
28- Memorial Day (observed)
28- Morning Radio Wise Guy Day!
28- National Hamburger Day
28- Prayer for Peace Memorial Day
28- Sierra Club Founded
28- Slugs Return to Capistrano Day
28- Whale Day
28- Whooping Crane Day first born in captivity in 1975
28- Woman Trousers Day (In 1923, the U.S. Attorney General determined that it was legal for women to wear trousers any time they wanted.)

29- Ancestor Honor Day
29- International Day of UN Peacekeepers
29- John F. Kennedy's Birthday 1917
29- Mount Everest Day
29- Paper Clip Day
29- Pink Flamingo Day 1956
29- Wisconsin Day

30- Compact Disc Birthday 1981
30- First Indianapolis 500 Car Race was Held in 1911
30- Ice Cream Freezer Birthday 1848
30- Lincoln Memorial Dedication 1922
30- Loomis Day
30- Memorial Day (actual)
30- My Bucket's Got a Hole in it Day
30- National Senior Health and Fitness Day

31- Bicycle Race Day (The first official bicycle race was held in 1868.)
31- Make My Day Day (Clint Eastwood's birthday.)
31- National Macaroon Day
31- National Save Your Hearing Day
31- Poetry Day
31- Rose Festival (Oregon)
31- What You Think Upon Grows Day
31- World No Tobacco Day