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Get Caught Reading Month   Vocabulary Month Bike Safety Month   Transportation Month   National Physical Fitness & Sports Month National Flower Month   Graduation Month   National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Family Month   Older Americans Month   Stroke Awareness Month Allergy & Asthma Awareness Month   National Arthritis Month Mental Health Month   National Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention Month Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday     1 May Day   Begin National Postcard Week   Mother Goose Day   USA Law Day   Hawaiian Lei Day Save the Rhino Day   2  Leonardo da Vinci died (1519)   Elijah McCoy (1844)   Asthma Awareness Day on Capital Hill     Full Flower Moon   Benjamin Spock (1903) 3  National Day of Prayer     First airplane landed at North Pole (1952)   Constitution Day- Japan   Golda Meir (1898)   4  International Firefighters Day Fire Safety for Kids   Space Day   Weather Observer’s Day 5 Cinco de Mayo   Join Hands Day   Children’s Day-Japan Learn Japanese 6   Hindenburg Disaster (1937)   Begin Teacher Appreciation Week   Begin Reading is Fun Week   American Medical Association founded (1847)   Sigmund Freud (1856)   Robert E. Peary (1856) 7  Kodak cameras first sold (1888)   Begin Be Kind to Animals Week   Begin National Wildflower Week   Robert Browning (1812)   Official end of Vietnam War (1975)   Rabindranath Tagore (1861)   Lusitania sank (1915) 8   National Teacher’s Day   World Red Cross Day   VE Day (1945)   First Westminster Dog Show held (1877) 9  National School Nurse Day   John Brown (1800) J.M. Barrie (1860)   Europe Day   First Newspaper Cartoon published in U.S. (1754)       10  Golden Spike Day- Transcontinental Railway Completed (1869) Giant Squid attack (1874)       Independence Day-Israel 11  Waco Tornado (1953)   Child Care Provider Appreciation Day   Salvador Dali (1904)   Minenesota Admission Day (1858)   Computer Core Memory patented (1951) 12  International Nurse’s Day   Florence Nightingale (1820)   Limerick Day   Kite Day   Edward Lear (1812)   13  Mother’s Day   Tulip Day   National Apple Pie Day   Begin National Police Week   Begin National Nursing Home Week   Begin National EMS Week   Begin Food Allergy Awareness Week 14   Lewis & Clark Expedition began (1803)   WAAC 65th Anniversary (1942)   Thomas Gainsborough (1727) 15  International Families Day   Wizard of Oz Day L.Frank Baum (1856)   Peace Officer Memorial Day   Jasper Johns (1930) 16  Biographers’ Day   First U.S. Nickel minted (1866) 17  World Telecommunications Day   French & Indian War began (1756)   Constitution Day-Norway   NYSE established (1792)     18  International Museum Day   Mount St. Helens erupted (1980) 19  Armed Forces Day   Lawrence of Arabia died (1935)   Plant Something Day   Circus Day   Sarah Peale (1800) Self-portrait 20  Amelia Earhart’s flight across the Atlantic (1932) 21  Victoria Day (Canada)   American Red Cross Established (1881)   Charles Lindbergh landed “Spirit of St. Louis” in Paris (1927)   Mary Anning (1799)   Henri Rousseau (1844) 22  Buy a Musical Instrument Day   International Day for Biological Diversity   Mary Cassatt (1844) Truman Doctrine (1947) 23  National Turtle Day   National Day- Morocco   South Carolina Admission Day (1788) Bifocals invented (1784) 24  National Escargot Day   First Morse Code message sent (1844)   Brooklyn Bridge opened (1883) 25  Africa Day   Fork debuted in U.S. (1630)   Halley’s Comet appeared (1531)   Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803) 26  Sally Ride (1951) 27  International Jazz Day   Golden Gate Bridge opened (1937)   Rachel Carson (1907) 28  Memorial Day Annie’s Memorial Day Kids Page   Monkeynauts Able and Baker flew in space (1959) 29  Wisconsin Admission Day (1848)   Rhode Island Admission Day (1790)   John F. Kennedy (1917)   Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach Mt. Everest (1953)   Patrick Henry (1736)   30  Lincoln Memorial dedicated (1922)     National Senior Health & Fitness Day Mariner 9 launched toward Mars (1971) 31  World No-Tobacco Day   National Save Your Hearing Day   Walt Whitman (1819)   Full Blue Moon May 2- National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day May 6-12 National Nurse Week; National Hospital & Health Care Week; National Mental Health Counseling Week May 9- National Nightshift Workers Day May 13-19 National Medical Transcriptionist Week May 16- National Employee Health & Fitness Day   May Historical Events from History Place Journey North Spring Calendar Education Oasis May Calendar