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| MAY is . . . Flower Month, American Bike Month, Mental Health Month, Correct Posture Month, Foot Health Month, National Allergy/Asthma Month, National Asparagus Month, National Egg Month, National Photo Month, National Salad Month, Good Carkeeping Month, National High Blood Pressure Month, National Physical Fitness & Sports Month, National Radio Month, Older Americans Month, Touring Theatre Month, National Arthritis Month, Better Sleep Month, National Barbeque Month, Senior Citizens Month, Stroke Awareness Month, Date Your Mate Month, Family Support Month, Freedom Shrine Month, Fungal Infection Awareness Month, May Is Better Hearing Month, National Hamburger Month, National Senior Travel Month, National Sight-Saving Month, National Strawberry Month, React Month, National Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness Month, Personal History Awareness Month, Revise Your Work Schedule Month, Steelmark Month, Project Safe Baby Month, Asian/Pacific-American Heritage Month |
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| Cartoon Art Appreciation Week National Family Week Be Kind To Animals Week National Bathroom Reading Week Heritage Week (Utah) National Music Week Carpet Care Improvement Week National Volunteer Week Childcare Awareness Week National Photo Week Pen Friends Week International National Self-Help Book Week Public Service Recognition Week |
National Postcard Week Golf Week National Nursing Home Week Deaf Awareness Week National Hospital Week Goodwill Industries Week National Nurses Week Be Kind To Animals Week National Transportation Week Astronomy Week Small Business Week National Tourism Week International Online Romance Week Conserve Water/Detect-A-Leak Day National Herb Week Flexible Work Arrangements Week Universal Family Week National Historic Preservation Week PTA Teacher Appreciation Week National Pet Week | ||
| 3rd Week | 4th Week | Public Transportation Week National Police Week Raisin Week National Bike Week Public Relations Week Art Week National Historic Preservation Week World Trade Week National Educational Bosses Week Girls Incorporated Week National Salvation Army Week Kiwanis Prayer Week Alcohol & Other Drug-Realted Birth Defects Week |
Poetry Week National Frozen Yogurt Week International Pickle Week National Design Drafting Week American Beer Week (begins Last Sun) National Safe Boating Week Poppy Week (ends Sat before Memorial Day) National Surgical Technologists Week |
| May Movable Daily Holidays | |
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| Day | Holiday |
| 1st Sunday | Humane Sunday Unmother's Day |
| 1st Monday | Labour Day (UK, Zambia) Fishin' Day (Seymour, Texas) |
| 1st Thursday | National Day of Prayer |
| 1st Friday | Potato Day (Alaska) International Tuba Day |
| 1st Saturday | Kentucky Derby Day (Louisville, Kentucky) Lampshade Saturday |
| 1st Weekend | Old Dover Days (Delaware) |
| 2nd Sunday | Mother's Day Hawaiian Song Day Cat Festival (Belgium) |
| 2nd Monday | Feis Ceoil begins (Irish Music Festival) |
| 2nd Tuesday | National Teacher Day |
| 2nd Wednesday | National Third-Shift Worker's Day |
| 2nd Friday | Poke Salad Festival begins (Blanchard, Louisiana) |
| 2nd Saturday | Native American Day Windmill Day (Netherlands) |
| Wednesday nearest 15th | Tulip Time (Holland, Michigan) |
| 3rd Sunday | I Am An American Day Malcolm X Day (Washington, DC) My Other Mother's Day |
| 3rd Wednesday | National Playday for Health |
| 3rd Friday | National Defense Transportation Day |
| 3rd Saturday | Armed Forces Day The Preakness Blessing of the Fleet begins (Bayou La Batre, Alabama) World's Largest Pancake Breakfast served by IHOP (Springfield, Massachusetts) |
| 1st Monday preceeding 5/25 | Victoria Day (Canada) |
| Monday nearest 24th | Bonfire Night (fka Empire Day; Scotland) |
| 3rd Saturday | International Jumping Frog Jubilee begins (Calaveras County,
Missouri) Great Monterey Squid Festival begins (Monterey, California) |
| 3rd Weekend | International Jumping Frog Jubilee (Calaveras County, Missouri) |
| Last Sunday | Cavalcata Sarda (Sardinia) Palio Dei Balestrieri (Italy; Crossbow Contest) Mad Sunday (Isle of Man) |
| Sunday before Memorial Day | Indianapolis 500 Race |
| Last Monday | Memorial Day Spring Bank Holiday (UK) Decoration Day Confederate Memorial Day (Virginia) |
| Last Wednesday | National Senior Health & Fitness Day |
| Sunday before Ascension | Rural Life Sunday Soil Stewardship Sunday Rogation Sunday |
| Monday before Ascension | Pacing the Bounds (Switzerland) |
| Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Ascension | Rogation Days (aka Gang Days) |
| 40 days after Easter | Ascension Holy Blood Procession (Belgium) |
| 4th Friday after Easter | Common Prayer Day (Denmark) |
| 5th Sunday after Easter | Rogation Sunday |
| 5th Saturday after 1st Saturday in May | Belmont Stakes |
| May Indeterminate Holidays The holidays in this table are either based on calendars other than the Gregorian Calendar or are keyed to natural events such as seasons or cosmological phenomena |
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| 6th Day of Shivan, 9th Jewish month (not including the intercalary month) | Shavuot |
| Early May | Tinjaua (Romania) |
| 4th moon of Chinese calendar | Cheung Chau Bun Festival (Hong Kong) |
| Saturday near 1st Quarter Moon between mid-April & mid-May | Astronomy Day |
| Late May | Mayoring Day (aka Hot Penny Toss Day; Rye, Sussex, UK) |
| Late May or early June but before students' final exams | Juvenalia (Poland) |
| Sometime between mid-may & 30th | Vlaggetjesdag (Flag Day; Netherlands) |
| Sometime in May, June, or July (every 4 years) | World Cup Soccer |
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| 1 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Dante Aligheri Terry Southern Joseph Heller Benjamin Henry Latrobe George Innes Joseph Addison Steve Cauthen George Innes Jack Paar Tawni Cable (Pb 6/89) Mary "Mother" Jones Scott Carpenter Danielle Darrieux Sonny James Carrie Stevens (Pb 6/97) Little Walter Bobbie Ann Mason Philippus Paracelsus Leo Sowerby Archie Williams Henry Demarest Lloyd Kate Smith D'Arcy Glenn Ford Lynnda Kimball (Pb 1/75) Steve Cauthen Doug Barr Mark Clark Rita Coolidge Dan O'Herlihy Judy Collins Cliff Battles Alice Eastwood Ollie Matson Dan O'Herlihy Chuck Bednarik Tim McGraw Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
May Day (Celtic, 6th Station) Lei Day (Hawaii) Bealtaine (aka Beltane; Old Ireland) Festival of the Hare Americanism Day (Pennsylvania) Walpurgisnacht (Norse, Germanic) Law Day International Labor Day Traditional Fertility Festival Loyalty Day Maytine Faeries Appearance (Ireland @) World Labor Day Floralia (Goddess of Flowers; Old Roman) Race of the Old Men Day (Archova, Greece) St. Brioc's Day (patron of purse makers) Mother Goose Day Riding of the Bounds (Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK) St. Joseph Worker's Day (Vatican City) Kallemooi (Holland) Faint-Hearted Fairies May (or May Not) Ball (Fairy) St. Peregrine Laziosi's Day (patron against cancer) Amtrak Day Dipping Day St. Tamenend's Day (aka Tammany's Day) Chimney Sweep's Day St. Efsio's Feast (Italy) Play of St. Evermaar (Belgium) Santacruzan (Philippine Girls' Festival) Repentence Day (Scotland) Senior Citizens Day (Massachusetts) Moving Day National Chocolate Parfait Day St. Joseph the Worker's Day Plant A Flower Day Save the Rhino Day Labor Day (Zambia) St. Asaph's Day National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day Pack Rag Day St. Walburga's Day International Workers Day St. Marculf's Day (patron against scrofula) |
| May 1 Events | Order of the Illuminati founded (1776) Milky Way Galaxy created (Sagan calendar) Smokey the Bear retired 1st Cocktail Bar opened England & Scotland became Great Britain (1707) 1st National Christmas Tree dedicated Citizen Kane premiered in New York (1941) Pogo comic strip began (1949) Battle of Berlin 1st Plowing Contest held Amtrak Service began Legoland Family Park opened (Denmark; 1968) 1st Jewelled Watch-Movement made Gary Powers' U-2 shot down over USSR (1960) Word "Jazz" 1st printed in newpaper (1916) 1st Advertisment in US (1704) Empire State Building opened (1931) 1st Adhesive Stamps made Bayer Aspirin 1st for sale 1st Wagon Train left for California Battle of Chencellorsville 1st Postcard printed Creature From the Black Lagoon premiered 1st US Trade Union formed (1794) Elvis Presely and Priscilla Beaulieu married (1967) Panny Black stamps 1st for sale (UK; 1840) Mother Jones gave her last speech, at age 100 (1893) Tamagotchi, the virtual pet, 1st for sale in the US (1997) Crystal Palace Great Exhibition opened (1851) US Navy destroyed Spanish Fleet (1898) Emperor Haile Selassie fled Ethiopa (1936) Coca-Cola 1st served at a World's Fair (1893) Buster Brown comic strip began (1902) Pinchot Tree dedicated at Muir Woods, California (1910) Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson moved from New York to Beautiful Downtown Burbank (1972) UN Convention held on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1995) Frank Gifford caught on videotape in a hotel room with flight attendant Suzen Johnson (1997) Dabussy's Afternoon of a Faun premiered with Nijinsky choreography (1922) Herman's Hermits' Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter reached No. 1 (1965) Cape Cod Brew House founded (Massachusetts; 1994) Celis Brewery founded (Texas; 1992) Cherryland Brewing Co. founded (Wisconsin; 1988) Durango Brewing Co. founded (Colorado; 1990) Eldorado Canyon Brewing Co. founded (Colorado; 1995) Frankenmuth Brewery founded (Michigan; 1988) Holy Cow! Casino, Cafe & Brewery founded (Nevada; 1993) Il Vicino Wood Oven Pizza brewery founded (New Mixico; 1994) Maine Coast Brewing Co. founded (Maine; 1995) Middlesex Brewing Co. founded (Massachusetts; 1993) Mill Bakery, Brewery & Eatery founded (Florida; 1990) Pacific Beach Brewhouse founded (California; 1991) Pikes Park Brewery founded (Colorado; 1993) Rohrbach Brewing Co. founded (New York; 1992) Roslyn Brewing Co. founded (Washington; 19910 Santa Cruz Brewing Co. founded (California; 1986) Shipyard Brewery founded (Maine; 1994) Walnut Brewery founded (Colorado; 1990) |
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| 2 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Manfred Von Richthofen (The Red Baron) Alessandro Scarlatti Benjamin "Dr." Spock Catherine the Great Vernon Castle Joseph Beuys Satyajat Ray William Bayliss Theodore Bikel Henry M. Roberts Lorenz Hart Rene Dreyfus Theodor Herzl Elias Boudinot Bing Crosby Mary Maclane Lesley Gore Jennifer Miriam (Pb 3/97) Biana Jagger Jenna Von Oy Larry Gatlin Eddie Collins Brian Aherne Lou Graham Christine Baranski Michael Rabin Roscoe Lee Brown Lorenzo Music D'Arcy Thompson Pinky Lee R.C. Bannon Leo XIII |
Mad Festival Invention of the Cross Fire Day Elena's Day (Goddess of the Holy Road) Robert's Rules of Order Day Minehead Hobbyhorse (UK) St. Zoe's Day International Garden Festival (UK) Eve of the Finding of the True Cross St. Athanasius' Day Education Day (Indonesia) Door-Banging and Window-Tapping Conference (Fairy) Peasant's Day (Burma) National Truffles Day St. Athanasius' Day Contraband Days begin (@) Fishing Season opens (@) |
| May 2 Events | Freer Gallery opened (Washington DC; 1923) Citizen Kane opened worldwide (1941) 1st American Booksellers Convention held Celluloid Film patented Battle of Chancellorsville began (1863) Hudson Bay Company chartered 1st Non-stop Flight across US (1923) Leonard Da Vinci died (1519) Ripe premiered (1997) Jack Benny Show debuted on radio (1932) 1st Commercial jet flight (1952) "G" Men premiered Shooting began on Jaws (1974) China imposed martial law (1989) Lou Gehrig's 2,310 game streak ends (1939) Explorer David Livingstone crossed Africa (1856) UK submarine torpedoed the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (1982) Argentine missile sank the UK destroyer Sheffield (1982) 1st Satellite TV broadcast linked 9 countries & 300 million viewers (1956) Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall banned in South Africa (1980) Houston Intercontinental Airport renamed George Bush Intercontinental Airport-Houston (1997) Greenpeace activist Jennifer Krill scaled the Bank of America tower to hang a protest banner (1996) Pilot almost collided with 3 UFO's over Mexico City, the discs were confirmed by radar (1975) Mary Rowlandson returned to her minister husband after 11 weeks kidnapped by indians (1676) |
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| 3 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| William Shakespeare Bruce Cabot Niccolo "Prince" Machiavelli James Brown Richard D'Oyly Carte Florence Chadwick Mary Astor Pete Seeger Mary Hopkins Englebert Humperdinck Frankie Valli Christopher Cross Doug Henning Jeffrey John Hornacek David Roderick Eppa Rixey Golda Meir Charles "Red" Ruffing Mike Munchak V.K. Krishna Menon Walter Slezak Septima Clark Anna Christina Olson (model for "Christina's World") Patricia Margot McClain (Pb 5/76) Sugar Ray Robinson Alex Cord Peter Oosterhuis Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho |
Sun Day (US) Labour Day (Australia) World Press Freedom Day (UN) Discoflux (Discordian) Lumpy Rug Day Dia de la Cruz (Latin America) Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa (Poland) Holy Cross Day (Mexico) Invention of the Cross Japanese Constitution Day Polish Constitution Day Dismal Day Tin Hau Festival (Queen Goddess of the Fisherman; Hong Kong) Semi-Pro Baseball Day Constitution Day (Japan) Procession of the Holy Blood (Belgium) Bent Wand-Straightening Day (Fairy) St. Phillip's Day (patron of Luxembourg, Uruguay) Crouchmas Day Three Days of Kite Battles (Hamamatsu, Japan) St. James the Lesser's Day (patron of the dying, hatters, Uruguay) National Raspberry Popover Day St. Philip of Zell's Day (patron of babies) Be Kind To Your Student Counsellor Day |
| May 3 Events | 1st Comic Book, Famous Funnies, published
(1934) Mouth of the Amazon River discovered Swift Fox declared extinct Headlight patented Sea Hawk premiered Fantasticks' premiered off-Broadway (1960) Columbus discovered Jamaica (1494) Zampa premiered 1st US State imposed sales tax (West Virginia) Land Mines 1st used Macon Allen, 1st US black attorney, passed the bar (1845) Washington, D.C. city incorporated (1802) Margaret Thatcher 1st elected prime minister of Great Britian (1979) Gone With the Wind won Pulitzer Prize (1937) Festival of Britain opened (1951) Napoleon comic strip began (1929) Dollywood theme park opened (1986) Airline service began in New York City (1919) Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love reached No. 1 (1986) Tweety Bird & Sylvester 1st appeared together in Warner Bros. cartoon (1947) St. Helena, daugther of Old King Cole & Constantine's Mom, found True Cross in Mexico (326) Maryland banned tobacco production for 1 year (1666) David Letterman held the 1st Rocket Chair Races (1984) |
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| 4 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Audrey Hepburn Keith Haring Maynard Ferguson Frederick Church Thomas Huxley Alice LIddell Horace Mann Bartholommeo Christofori Tracy Vaccaro (Pb 10/83) John Hanning Speke Mary McDonough Thomas Dewing George F. Will Howard de Silva St. Vincent de Paul Johann Friedrich Herbart Heather Kozar (Pb 1/98) Randy Travis Tammy Wynette Roberta Peters Horace Mann Jackie "Sigmund" Jackson Kakuei Tanaka Joseph Whitaker Nickolas Ashford Susan Brown Julie Budd Ed Cassidy Ron Stark Michael Berger Crown Prince Tuputo of Tonga |
National Homebrew Day Bona Dea (Old Roman Goddess of Women's Mysteries) Veneration of the Thorn Movie Day Fairy Ring Day (Giving; Fairy) Hel Hole Swamp Festival Lobster Race & Oyster Festival National Weather Observer's Day Youth Day (China) St. Florian's Day (patron of Poland, upper Austria, brewers, chimney sweeps, firefighters) Prophet Mohammed's Trip To Heaven and Back Memorial Day (Curacao) People's Day (Japan) Holocaust Remembrance Day Rhode Island Declaration of Independence Day St. Gotthard's Day National Candied Orange Peel Day Relationship Renewal Day Martin Z. Mollusk Day (if the hermit crab sees his shadow, summer will be a week early) Dodenherdenking (Remembrance Day; 2 minutes of silence observed at 8 pm; Netherlands) |
| May 4 Events | Bruce Jay Friedman's Steambath
premiered Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science founded 4 Students killed demonstrating at Kent State (1970) Invisible Ink invented Bell's Vireo discovered 1st All-professional baseball game played (1871) Columbus got a new Coat of Arms Sgt. Fury #1 published Moody Blues formed Haymarket Riots (1886) 1st Grammy Awards held (1959) Battle of the Coral Sea began (1942) Sherlock Holmes disappears in Reichenbach (1891) Arawaks of Jamaica discovered (1494) Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl released Line of Demarcation drawn Cunard Shipping Line founded (1839) Harold Teen comic strip began (1919) Peter Minuit arrived in New Amsterdam (1626) Charles Roll and Henry Royce agreed to make cars together (1904) Redhook Brewing Company incorporated (1981) Grand Funk's The Loco-Motion reached No. 1 (1974) Ronald Reagan announced support for Contras in Nicaragua (1983) Luminous cone-shaped UFO spotted over Stockay, Belgium by archeologist (1990) Sultan Tipu Sahib of Mysore fought to the death but failed to keep British from conquering (1799) |
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| 5 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Soren Kierkegaard Michael Palin James Beard Nellie Bly Karl Marx Ann B. Davis Mohamet Wendy Kaye (Pb 7/91) John Carlson Henryk Sienkiewicz Tyrone Power Billy Burnette Christopher Morley Darren McGavin John Rhys-Davies Ian McCullough Alice Faye Tammy Wynette Roger Rees Tina Yothers Pat Carroll Michael Murphy Tony Canadeo Leroy Kelly Will Hutchins Albert "Chief" Bender Danielle Fishel Michael J. Adams H.H. Bancroft John J. Sweeny |
World Environment Day Cinco de Mayo (Mexico, US) Folly Festival Demonstration Day Fairy Ring Day (Receiving; Fairy) Children's Day (Japan, South Korea) May Day (UK) Bonza Bottler Day Chulakongkron's Day (Thailand) Tango-No-Sekku (Boys' Festival; Japan) St. Avertine's Day (patron against dizziness) Feast of Banners (Japan) Old Dover Days begin May Fellowship Day Sandlapper Festival National Chocolate Custard Day Bevrijdingsday (Liberation Day; Netherlands) Kodomo-No-Hi (Children's Festival; Japan) St. Judith's Day (patron of Prussia) Gilkins of Oz Convention Project Aces Day St. Hilary of Arles' Day Toad Suck Daze begin (@) |
| May 5 Events | Tchaikovsky's Peter & the Wolf
premiered Carnegie Hall opened Jet Helicopter invented Screw Top Bottle patented Battle of Puebla (1862) Damn Yankees premiered Lewis & Clark encountered a grizzly bear 1st Train Robbery (Ohio; 1865) Battle of Guadelupe, Mexico (1862) Cy Young threw baseball's 1st perfect game (1904) Dred Scot decision rendered (1857) 1st TV broadcast from Mt. Everest (Japan; 1988) Stock Market Crash of 1893 Battle of the Wilderness (1864) Sacco and Vanzetti arrested (1920) Crusaders lost last stronghold in holy land (1291) 1st Hanging at Tyburn, UK (1760) Lionel Richie's Hello reached No. 1 (1984) Buffalo Springfield disbanded (1968) Hogan's Alley, featuring the Yellow Kid, 1st comic strip, began (1895) John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee (1925) Freedom 7 launched 1st American into space in Mercury capsule (1961) UK SAS stormed Iranian embassy in London to free hostages (1980) German Occupation ended, returning sovereignty but dividing Germany into East & West (1955) Shirelles' Soldier Boy reached No. 1 (1962) UK launched its 1st satellite (1963) Kent Tree dedicated at Muir Woods, California (1929) Anton Fig officially becomes the new drummer on David Letterman (1986) World Bank warned that "poverty is a greater threat to peace than the cold war" (1955) Six Americans are killed on the Oregon Coast by a Japanese balloon carrying a bomb (WW2; 1945) |
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| 6 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| T.H. White Sigmund Freud Orson Welles John McCutcheon Robert E. Peary Aram Khachaturian Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Willie Mays Martin Robinson Delany Rudolph Valentino Willie Mays Phoebe Ann Coffin Daniel Gerber George Clooney John Penn William Daniel Leahy Gaston Leroux Maximilien Robespierre Lori Singer Grove Karl Gilbert Dana Hill Rabindranath Tagore Stewart Granger Herbie Cox Max Ophlus Emmanuel Celler Bob Seger Toots Shor Weeb Ewbank Roma Downey Jimmie Dale Gilmore Luigi Villoresi Richard C. Shelby Tony Blair Mark Bryan Henry II |
Enlightenment of the Buddha National Homebrew Day International No Diet Day Beverage Day Eyvind Kelve (Norse) Feast of the Fiery Flying Roll Shepherd's and Herdsman's Day (Bulgaria) Nurses' Day Sixth Day of May (Fairy) St. Ava's Day (patron of children learning to walk) National Crepe Suzette Day |
| May 6 Events | Peter Minuit bought Manhattan (1626) Sack of Rome (1527) Refrigerator invented Lock patented Mile 1st run in under 4 minutes (1954) Zonker retired from tanning (Doonesbury) W.P.A. established (1935) Hindenburg dirigible exploded (1937) Crazy Horse surrendered, giving up Nebraska (1877) Babe Ruth hit his 1st Home Run (1915) 1st International Boxing Match held (1733) Yale Lock patented (1851) Battle of Wounded Knee (1973) Arkansas seceded from the Union (1861) 1st Shots fired in Cod War (1959) FCC gave TV Channel 1 to the US military Hitler Diaries announced as fakes (1983) Elizabeth Taylor married Nicky Hilton (1950) Works Progress Administration created (1935) Chinese Exclusion Act passed (1882) 1st Postage Stamp issued (UK Black Penny; 1840) David Duchovny & Tea Leoni married (1997) Mindy 1st kissed Mork (on Mork & Mindy; 1980) US Supreme Court established the ludicrous "separate but equal" doctrine in transportation (1896) |
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| 7 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky Johannes Brahms Traci Lords James George Frazer Robert Browning Edwin Land Gary Cooper Amy Heckerling Johnny Unitas Archibald MacLeish Marilyn Cole (Pb 1/72) John Heard Gabby Hayes Darren McGavin Anne Baxter Prairie Prince Dick Williams Rabindranath Tagore Theresa Brewer Katerina Maleeva Janis Ian Eva Peron Derek Taylor Jimmy Ruffin Francis Beaufort Johnny Maestro Robin Strasser Chris O'Connor Robert Hegyes Pete V. Domenici Archibald Primrose Lord Hanforth |
National Home Brewer's Day Spring Day (Scotland) Helston Furry Dance (Cornwall, UK) Beaufort Scale Day (wind scale) Feat of St. Nicola (Bari, Italy' patron of orphans, pirates) Bucks County Kite Day (Pennsylvania) Homespun History Day Paste-Up Day Feast Day of San Nicola (Bari, Italy) St. Domitian's Day (patron against fever) National Roast Leg of Lamb Day St. John of Beverley's Day O. Henry World Championship Pun Off (@) Experience the Awsome Stomach-Churning Wonder of a Thrill Ride Day |
| May 7 Events | Pulitzer Prize established American Medical Association founded (1847) Lusitania sank by German U-Boat (1915) Kodak Cameras 1st for sale (1888) 1st Stamp Collection started Beethoven's 9th Symphony premiered Man accidently strangled himself with a garden hose Germany surrendered (WW 2; 1945) Telstar 2 launched Drury Lane's Theatre Royal opened (1663) Chief Pontiac attacked English garrison at Detroit (1863) Largest Swordfish caught (1,182 lbs.) 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance race held (1923) Subtractive Method of Color Photography patented Eagles' Hotel California reached No. 1 (1977) Greece is declared an independent kingdom (1832) Women's voting age lowered from 30 to 21 in UK (1926) French forces in Vietnam overrun at Dien Bien Phu (1954) Tunis captured from Germany (WW2; 1943) 1st Gathering held of people abducted by aliens (1988) Protestant Episcopal Chuch formed in US (1789) Johns Hopkins University Geneticists given permission to clone Abraham Lincoln's genes (1991) |
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| 8 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Harry S. Truman Thomas Pynchon Red Nichols Gary Snyder Peter Benchley Louis Gottschalk Jean Henri Durant Oscar Hammerstein Jamie Summers Wen Shu Buddha Nevil Sidgwick Miguel Hidalgo David Attenborough Thomas Hancock Keith Jarret Melissa Gilbert Sloan Wilson Ricky Nelson Mary Marcy Sloan Wilson Edward Gibbon Gary Glitter Theodore Sorenson John Fred Billy Burnette Stephen Furst Angel Cordero Jr. Toni Tenille Philip Bailey Alex Van Halen Chris Frantz Don Rickles Ronnie Lott Dan Brouthers Edd Roush Mike Cuellar Sonny Liston Doug Atkins |
Daisy Day (Children's Hospital) World Red Cross Day Furry Day (aka Furry Dance; UK) No Socks Day Stork Day (Denmark) V.E. Day (aka Armistice Day) Birthday of Lord Buddha (Hong Kong) St. John's Day (Eastern) Dog-Prodding (Gremlins) Archangel Michael's Day (aka Furry Day) St. Wiro's Day (patron of Holland) National Coconut Cream Pie Day St. Peter of Tarantaise's Day |
| May 8 Events | Mississippi River discovered (1541) Battle of Spotsylvania 1st Dog Show held Beatles' Let It Be released Coca-Cola 1st sold (Jacob's Pharmacy, Atlanta, Georgia; 1886) Battle of Coral Sea began (WW2; 1942) Saluting began Baseball's 1st unassisted triple play made 1st Blindfold Chess Match played US/China Opium Trading Treaty signed Expression "Home Sweet Home" 1st used Joan of Arc's forces vanquished English at Orleans (1429) 1st International Yacht Race (1849) Mt. Pelee erupted, killing 30,000 (Martinique; 1902) Last Tasmanian Aborigine died (1976) Sweden abolished the death penalty (1921) 1st US draft authorized (1792) Massachusetts adopted a 10-hour work day for women (1874) Estonia readopted its 1938 Constitution (1990) Africaans became official language of South Africa (1924) Explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi (1541) Mt. Pelee volcano erupted killing 30,000 (Martinique; 1902) Bill Clinton asked Paula Jones to have sex with her at the Excelsior Hotel (1991) Gary Hart withdrew from US Presidential race after press uncovered his affair with Donna Rice (1987) |
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| 9 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Richard Adams James M. Barrie Bobby Fischer Gregory Bateson Jose Ortega y Gasset Billy Joel James L. Brooks Pancho Gonzalez Mike Wallace John Brown Belle Boyd Steve Katz Barbara Woodhouse Candice Bergen Albert Finney Glenda Jackson John Brown Howard Carter Alexander Ross Gregory Beecroft James Pollard Espy David Prater Belle Boyd Terry Drinkwater Henry J. Kaiser Vance Brand Tommy Roe Dave Gahan Hank Snow Sonny Curtis Richie Furay Tony Gwynn Clint Holmes |
Lost Sock Memorial Day Astronomy Day Victory Day (USSR) Lemuria (Old Roman; Honors Ghosts of Dead without Family) National Teacher Day School Family Day National Bike To Work Day Joan of Arc Processions (France) National Butterscotch Brownie Day St. Pachomius' Day Grand Bairam Holiday begins (Egypt) National Holiday (Czechoslovakia) Liberation Day (Jersey, Channel Islands) Earls Court Day (Kansas, Virginia, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota) |
| May 9 Events | Beer Pump Handles 1st made Treaty of Windsor signed Columbus left on his 4th & last voyage 1st Purple Hearts awarded (1783) Nazis burned 25,000 books Siege of Orleans (1429) 1st Flight over the North Pole (1926) Eye Bank 1st opened Fifth Element premiered (1997) Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opened in London (1887) Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies founded (Fairy) English Crown Jewels stolen (1671) John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger premiered (1956) 1st Newspaper Cartoon (Join-or-Die by Ben Franklin) FCC President called TV a "vast wasteland" (1961) Guess Who's American Woman reached No. 1 (1970) 1st Driver's License in Nova Scotita issued (1907) Burne Hogarth's Tarzan comic strip began (1937) UK Parliament agreed to home rule for Ireland (1911) Image Comics superhere, Shadow Hawk, died of AIDS (1995) Beatles signed a recording contract with EMI Parlaphone (1962) 1st Mother's Day declared (1914) "God" hit the campiagn trail in India (N.T. Rao Rama; 1991) Aldo Moro's body discovered murdered in Rome (1978) Sinead O'Connor refused to appear on Saturday Night Live with Andrew Dice Clay (1990) Freighter crashed into Sunshine Skyway Bridge, killing 35 (Tampa Bay, Florida; 1980) Dianetics 1st published (1950) |
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| 10 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Fred Astaire Thomas J. Lipton David O. Selznick Edward Stratemeyer George "Pop" Hart Max Steiner George Ross Ariel Durant Phil Mahre Donovan Leitch Rony Seikaly Gary Owens Ara Parseghian Dave Mason T. Berry Brazleton Dmitri Tiomkin Teri Copley Robby Thompson Augustin-Jean Fresnel Nancy Walker Chris Novoselic Olaf Stapleton Ken Berry Bono Vox Young MC Anatol Liadov Phil & Steve Mahre Ella Grasso Manuel Santana Sid Vicious Harry Fambrough John Wilkes Booth |
Human Kindness Day Ring Day National Receptionist Day Bob Rooney Day (David Letterman) St. Job's Day (patron against depression, ulcers) Golden Spike Day St. Isidore's Day Clean Up Your Room Day St. Cathal's Day (patron against drought, storms, hernias) Burning of the Books Day National Third Shift Workers Day St. Solangia's Day (patron of children, shepherds; against rain) El Dia Del Maestro (Day of the Teacher; Mexico) St. John of Avila's Day National Tourist Appreciation Day St. Comgall's Day Day of the Mother (Mexico) Confederate Memorial Day (North & South Carolina) St. Simon's Day (Eastern) National Shrimp Day Skunks Born Day Cotton Carnival (Tennessee @) St. Antoninus' Day |
| May 10 Events | Paper invented (China; 105 CE) Michelangelo commissioned to paint Sistine Chapel (1508) Ivory Billed Woodpecker declared extinct Transcontinental Railroad completed (1869) 1st Planetarium in US opened Battle of Ft. Ticonderoga (1775) 2nd Continental Congress met in Philadelphia (1775) Frigate United States launched 1st Archeological Society founded Largest Sturgeon caught (407 lbs.) 1st Woman nominated for US President (Victoria Woodhull; 1872) Pullman Strike began (1894) Werewolf in London premiered 1st Europe-wide newspaper published (1990) Wounded Knee standoff ended (1973) American Equal Rights Association founded (1866) 1st Vending Machine Law passed (Nebraska) Last Laverne & Shirley episode aired (1983) Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa (1994) 1st Year without a reported lynching in US South (1940) Nazis began burning "unGerman" books (1933) Ethan Allen & his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga (1775) Blue Hen Beer Co. founded (Delaware; 1990) |
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| 11 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Salvador Dali Martha Quinn Peter North Richard Feynman Baron von Munchhausen (1720) Irving Berlin Diana Lee (Pb 5/88) Alfred Stevens Jean-Leon Gerome Martha Graham John Hart Eric Burden Justinian (483 CE) Mort Sahl Sam Donaldson Antonin Scalia William Grant Still Robert Jarvik Estelle Hallyday Denver Pyle Peter Camper Mari Sandoz Charles Warren Fairbanks Jean-Louis Gerome Stanley Elkin Mari Sandoz Louis Farrahkan Jeannine Crowell Phil Silvers Margaret Rurtherford Doug McClure James M. Jeffords Flaco Jimenez Charlie Gehringer Foster Brooks Bobby McFerrin Cheryl Lynn Pete Droge Rupert Murdoch |
International Strange Music Festival Twilight Zone Day St. Gengulf's Day (patron against unhappy marriages) Bob Marley Day (Jamaica) St. Philip's Day Five Day Rain Ceremony (Guatemala) St. Mamertus' Day Joan of Arc Day (France) International Mother's Day St. Mamertius' Day (1st of Ice Saints) National Mocha Torte Day St. Cyril and Methodius' Day (Eastern) |
| May 11 Events | Constantinople founded Minnesota became the 32nd state (1858) Diamond Sutra, 1st printed book, published (868 CE) 1st Regularly televised TV Show broadcast (1928) Bride of Frankenstein premiered Coca-Cola's "Coke Adds Life to ..." ad campaign launched (1976) 1st Blackout occured Townsend's Bunting seen for the 1st & last time Battle of Hamburger Hill began (Vietnam War; 1969) 1st Tubeless Tires made Submarine 1st circled the world submerged (1960) Madonna's Crazy for You reached No. 1 (1985) Habeas Corpus Act passed Bob Marley died (1981) MacArthur Park, the world's most annoying song, released Sepoy Mutiny (1857) British captured Rangoon (1824) American Bible Society formed (1816) Borden, Inc. dairy products company founded (1851) Fairy Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Royal Humans founded (Fairy) Elvis Presley 1st entered UK pop charts (1956) 1st Christian Hospital founded by Helena, mother of Constantine (369 CE) Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats premiered in London (1981) |
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| 12 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Socrates Leslie Charteris Katherine Hepburn Tom Snyder Edward Lear George Carlin Florence Nightingale Gabriel Dante Rossetti Emilio Estevez Gabriel Faure Lincoln Ellsworth Frank Stella Gabriel Byrne J.E.H. MacDonald Howard K. Smith Al Jarreau J.V. Snellman Steve Winwood Mildred McAfee Yogi Berra Howard K. Smith Tom Armstrong Kim Fields Mackenzie Astin Burt Bacharach Samuel Daniel Nujoma Wilfrid Hyde-White Susan Hampshire Pat McCormick Robert Baldwin Jules Massenet Shozo Fujii Billy Duffy Lincoln Ellsworth Stephen Baldwin Bruce Boxleitner Halsey William Wilson Melanie Chisolm Billy Squier Kix Brooks |
Nonsense Day International Nurses' Day Limerick Day National Windmill Day Woodmen Ranger's Day Olde May Day National Hospital Day Garland Day (Dorsetshire, UK) Celtic tree month of Saille ends St. Epiphanius' Day National Wine Show Account Days begin (until 30th) St. Tammany's Day (patron of democracy) Garland Day (aka Derby Day; UK) National Mushroom Festival St. Pancras' Day (2nd Ice Saint; patron of children, oaths, treaties) National Nutty Fudge Day St. Nereus and Achilleus' Day Pisark Bochea (Cambodia) St. Francis Patrizi's Day (patron of reconcilliations) |
| May 12 Events | Wedding in US 1st held Spitting outlawed Polo Rules published Lindbergh Baby found dead (1932) Society of Saint Tammany founded (1789) Meteor strikes earth near Blackstone, Virginia (1922) Battle of Spotsylvania began (1864) Mick Jagger married Bianca (1971) Alcoholics Anonymous founded (1935) UK General Strike by Trades Union Council ended (1926) North African Axis countries surrendered (WW2; 1943) Easter Rebellion leaders executed (1916) Berlin Blockade lifted (1949) Voting Age lowered from 21 to 18 in UK (1969) Elizabeth Taylor married Eddie Fisher (1959) Beverly Hills Hotel opened (1912) Fairy Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Royal Humans disbanded (Fairy) NOAA agreed to name Pacific storms after men Everly Brothers' All I Have To Is Dream reached No. 1 (1958) Joe Namath signed to play QB for L.A. Rams (1977) Sharon Sites Adams began 1st solo voyage by a woman across the Pacific Ocean (1969) Bob Dylan refused to appear on Ed Sullivan, saying it's "too square" (1963) Last USSR SS-20 intermediate range missiles destroyed (1991) Harrison Hollow Brewhouse founded (Idaho; 1992) |
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| 13 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Peter Gabriel Gabriel Faure Shipwreck Kelly Georges Braque Eloise Broady (Pb 4/88) Daphne du Maurier Oliver Heaviside Edward Lear Jenna Von Oy Arthur Sullivan Jerry Butler Stevie Wonder Harvey Keitel Dennis Rodman Josephine Butler Clive Barnes Ritchie Valens Gil Evans Herbert Ross Peter Henry Emerson Frank Brangwyn Ronald Ross Jack Bruce Mary Wells Felipe Alou Marquess of Rockingham Empress Maria Theresa Julianne Phillips Henry William Stiegel Jim Jones Beatrice Arthur Joe Louis Carol Fuller (Pb 5/59) Danny Klein Franklin Ajaye Clive Barnes Sue Williams (Pb 5/65) Darius Rucker Lari White |
Druid Day Fiesta of Five Flags Indian Day Leprechaun Day Celtic tree month of Huath (Hawthorn) begins Purlliya (Ancient Anatola; Dragon Slaying Festival) London Marathon Runic half-month of Lagu ends St. Servatius' Day (3rd Ice Saint) National Apple Pie Day Fairy King and Queen Jumping Competition (Fairy) St. Imelda's Day (patron of first communicants) Procession of Our Lady of Fatima (Macau) St. Servais' Day (patron against rats, vermin, foot troubles) |
| May 13 Events | Practical Printing Press invented 1st Billiard Match held Casey at the Bat published Word "Cocktail" 1st used in print (1806) Air Mail Atamp 1st used 1st Ford car made Pajama Game premiered on Broadway Kirtland's Warbler discovered 1st Golf Tournament held St. Lawrence Seaway Act enacted (1954) Term "Bogey" 1st used in golf Sewing Machine Lamp Holder patented Whisky Rebellion began (Pennsylvania; 1794) Unsuccessful assassination of Pope John Paul II attempted (1981) Republic of Ecuador created (1830) Car Bomb killed 26 (Bogota, Colombia; 1990) Dodge Brothers sell out to Chrysler (1928) Braniff Airlines filed bankruptcy (1982) US declared war against Mexico (1846) Bruce Springsteen & Julianne Phillips married (1985) Cardinal Richelieu invented the table knife (1639) Red Hot Chili Peppers play on the Simpsons (1993) 3 Children near Fatima, Portugal saw a vision of the virgin Mary (1917) French settlers in Algiers seized government buildings & demanded independence (1958) Rockefeller destroyed Diego Rivera's mural in the RCA Building (1933) 1st Permanent English setlement in America began at Jamestown, Virginia (1607) Jerry Seinfeld made his 1st appearance on David Letterman (1982) Philadelphia Police dropped a C-4 bomb on a "radical group", killing 11 (including 4 children), and destroying 61 homes (1985) |
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| 14 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Thomas Gainsborough Gabriel D. Farenheit Robert Owen George Lucas Connie Brighton (Pb 9/82) Heloise Season Hubley Jennifer Allan (Pb 9/96) Otto Klemperer Robert Zemeckis Jack Bruce Tim Roth Robert Jarvik Bobby Darin David Byrne Jose Dennis Martinez Ralph Neas Walter Berry Earle Coombs Byron L. Dorgan Ed Walsh Sidney Bechet Brad Anderson Ian Astbury Robert Owen Linda Forsythe (Pb 2/70) Patrice Munsel C.C. DeVille Mike Inez Lou Harrison Charles IV Freaky Tah Shanice Danny Wood |
Crazy Day Underground America Day Mother Ocean Day Runic half-month of Ing (expansive energy) begins Help Clean Up Your Street Day Kamuzu Day (Malawi) Paraguay Independence Day French Fairy Awareness Day (Fairy) Israel Independence Day Philippine Islands Constitution Day Liberian Unification and Integration Day Veal Ban Action Day St. Bonifatius' Day (4th Ice Saint) National Buttermilk Biscuit Day Stars and Stripes Forever Day National Dance Like A Chicken Day St. Matthias' Day (Western; patron against alcoholism) |
| May 14 Events | V & S Sandwich Shop opened (Shillington,
Pennsylvania) Condensed Milk patented Olympics 1st held in US (1904) 1st Pasenger Flight Vaseline trademarked Shall We Dance premiered 1st Camel arrived in US Skylab I, 1st manned space station, orbited Earth (1973) Goalposts 1st used in American Football Nylons 1st for sale (1940) Prarie Dog discovered Lewis & Clark left St. Louis (1804) Battle of Nicea (1st Crusade; 1097) 1st Vaccination Shot given (1796) Women 1st competed in Olympic Games (Paris; 1900) US Speed Limit lowered to 40 mph (1942) Zionist State of Israel declared (1948) Tripoli declared war on US (1801) Atlantic Records established (1948) Net-Happenings Listserv established (1993) Women's Auxilury Army Corps (WAAC) established (1942) HMS Driver completed 1st around-the-world journey by a steamship (1847) Warsaw Pact signed by Eastern Bloc (1955) Mad Monk Ravaillac killed France's King Henry IV (1610) John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever premiered (1897) Last episode of Family Ties aired (1989) Conan O'Brien's Journey Past Midnight began (1996) Nile River's course changed for Aswan Dam (1964) Israel became an independent nation (1948) 2 Black students killed protesting the war in Cambodia (1970) Gloria Estefan's Anything For You reached No. 1 (1988) Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve played the Troubador, Los Angeles (1996) Sam Goldwyn bought United Artists from Chaplin, Pickford, and Fairbanks (1939) French Workers strike for one day in support of student protesters (1968) UK Frogman disappeared bugging underside of Khruschev's warship in Portsmouth (1956) 1st Japanese diplomats visited another country (US; 1860) Seabright Brewery founded (California; 1993) |
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| 15 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| L. Frank Baum Sigurd Rascher Jasper Johns Louis Bamburger Paul Zindel Mike Oldfield Richard Avedon Katherine Anne Porter James Mason Peter Shaffer Arthur Schnitzler Max Frisch Thomas Lake Harris David Cronenberg Erroll Garner Brian Eno Pierre Curie Joseph Cotten Arthur Schnitzler Trini Lopez Constance Cummings Emmitt Smith Lee Horsley Ursula Theiss Eddy Arnold Lenny Welch Amy Chow Clifton Fadiman George Brett Ellen Louise Axson Wilson Mikhail Bulgakov Anna Maria Alberghetti David Charvet Richard Daley Prince Be Wavy Gravy |
International Day of Families (UN) Peace Officer Memorial Day (aka Police Memorial Day) Straw Hat Day Feast of Maia and Mercury (Old Roman) St. Dympna's Day (patron of the insane, asylums, mental health workers; against epilepsy, insanity, sleepwalking) Feast of St. Isidore (patron of farmers, Madrid) Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day Israeli National Day Paraguay Independence Observance Day San Isidro Day (Mexico) French Fried Fairy Awareness Day (Fairy) Police Memorial Day Goddess Month of Maia ends St. Hallvard's Day (patron of Oslo; defending innocence) Cold Sophie's Day (5th Ice Saint) St. Isidore's Day (patron farmers, farm workers, ranchers) National Chocolate Chip Day Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought, No Matter What It Was!, No Excuses Now Day |
| May 15 Events | Philosophy started (578 BCE) Las Vegas founded Nylon stockings 1st for sale (1940) Horton heard "a small noise" (Dr. Suess) Panama Canal opened US Air Mail service began (1918) 1st Stewardess flew (1930) Cape Cod discovered Showboat premiered George Wallace shot (1972) 1st Keedoozle Store opened Virginia Convention held Edward Hopper died (1967) Machine Gun patented (1718) UK 1st dropped the H-Bomb (1957) James Hatfield attempted to assassinate George III (1800) US Congress declared slave trade to be piracy (1829) Rube Goldberg's Boob McNutt comic strip began (1915) Jane Seymour & James Keach married (1993) Tienanmen Square student protests began during Gorbachev visit to China (1989) Flying Doctor Service established (Australia; 1928) National Woman Suffrage Association founded (1869) Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve played the Fillmore, San Francisco (1996) USSR began troop evacuation of Afghanistan (1988) Madam Miss Whiplash lost her case against Inland Revenue for back taxes (1990) Sempervirens Club founded (1900) Judgment Day, according to Anabaptist Hans Huth (1527) Motion Picture Censor Board established to impose their morals on everyone Navigator Bartholomew Gosnold landed in New England (1602) Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's Ebony and Ivory reached No. 1 (1982) Dymphna, Princess of Gheel, Belgium beheaded (her father head her killed because she could cure those "possessed by the devil" by touching them; 600 CE) Assets Grill & Brewing Co. founded (New Mexico; 1993) Bootlegger's Brew Co. founded (California; 1994) Midnight Sun Brewing Co. founded (Alaska; 1995) Old Dominion Brewing Co. founded (Virginia; 1990) Palmetto Brewing Co. founded (South Carolina; 1991) Rio Grande Brewing Co. founded (New Mexico; 1994) Round House Co. brewery founded (Massachusetts; 1995) Spinnakers Brewpub founded (British Columbia; 1984) |
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| 16 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Woody Herman Studs Terkel Debra Winger Elizabeth Palmer Peabody William Henry Seward Edmund Kirby-Smith Henry Fonda Billy Cobham Pierce Brosnan Gabriela Sabatini Mare Winningham Niles Spencer Liberace Olga Korbut Tracey Gold Dan Coats Janet Jackson Billy Martin John Thomas Salley Lowell P. Weicker Edmund Kirby-Smith Adrienne Rich Levi Parsons Morton Ingeborg Sorensen (Pb 3/75) Betty Carter James B. Hunt Tracey Gold Lainie Kazan Jim Langer Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin Ralph Tresvant Swami Muktananda Paramahansa Rick Trevino Tori Spelling |
Animal Day National Bike to Work Day St. Brendan the Navigator's Day (patron of sailors, Ireland) Goddess Month of Hera begins Biographer's Day Love A Tree Day Rogation Day St. Honoratus' Day (patron of bakers, millers) Cancer Day Falling Off a Log Night (Fairy) St. Brendan's Voyage Day National Coquilles St. Jacques Day St. John of Nepomuk's Day (patron of bridges, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia) Wear Purple For Peace Day St. Simon Stock's Day (patron of tanners) |
| May 16 Events | 1st Academy Awards Ceremony held (1929) Pogo 1st published Mary Wells' My Guy reached No. 1 (1963) 1st US Nickel issued (1866) Jim Henson died (1990) Hyundai founded (1947) 1st Transcontinental Motorcycle Trip completed Top Gun premiered 17th Amendment proposed by US Congress (1916) Food Stamps 1st issued Rochester, New York; 1939) 1st Color Photo taken US Sedition Act passed (1918) 1st Woman Prime Minister in France (1991) Demonstration of Flat Recording Disk 1st given (1888) 1st Envelope made Junko Tabei became the 1st woman to climb Mt. Everest (1975) Pete Townsend spent a night in jail for kicking a policeman off stage (1969) National Horseshoe Pitchers Association established 1st Successful hole-in-the-heart operation performed George's fiance Susan died from licking wedding invitation envelopes (Seinfeld; 1996) Hayes Williams released from a Louisiana prison after 30 years for a crime he didn't commit (1996) |
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| 17 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Sandro Botticelli Erik Satie Trent Reznor Christian Lacroix Taj Mahal Maureen O'Sullivan John Penn Brigit Nielson Dennis Hopper Eva Peron James Lind Bert Jones Archibald Cox Hazel O'Leary Bill Bruford E. Benjamin Nelson James "Cool Papa" Bell Edward Jenner Peter Mennin Grace Jones Bob Saget Ivan Slone Zinka Milanov Joseph Norman Lockyer Clarence "Ace" Parker Sugar Ray Leonard Ayatollah Khomeini |
Dea Dia (Goddess of the Cosmos) Pack Rat Day Discovery Day (Cayman Islands) I-Am-An-American Day Nauru Constitution Day Constitution Day (Norway) Las Piedras Day (Uruguay) Fertility Rites (Phillippines) World Telecommunications Day (UN) St. Robert Bellarmine's Day National Employee Health & Fitness Day St. Madern's Day (patron against lameness) Uff Da Day (North Dakota) St. Pascal Babylon's Day (patron of shepherds) National Cherry Cobbler Day |
| May 17 Events | 1st Stand Up Comic stood up New York Stock Exchange opened (1792) Reaper patented 1st Kentucky Derby held (1875) Great Train Robbery ocurred 1st Tunnel built for use by autos Grauman's Chinese Theatre opened 1st Package Holiday taken (Thomas Cook; 1861) Montreal founded 1st Merry-Go-Round built (Turkey; 1620) Giant Dipper Roller Coaster opened (Santa Cruz, California; 1924) 1st Color Photograph exhibited (1961) US Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools (Brown v. Board of Education; 1954) Senate Watergate hearings began (1973) Norwegian Constitution signed (1814) Those Magnificent Man in Their Flying Machines premiered Draft files napalmed in Catonsville, Maryland (1968) Tide turned as Mafeking siege ended (Boer War; 1900) US Speech researchers confirmed Churchill's radio speeches faked (1990) Hong Kong put up its own "Berlin Wall" to keep out Chinese immigrants (1962) Bob Dylan performed at the Albert Hall (1964) 1st Person to row across the Atlantic completed the journey from Newfoundland to Ireland (1969) Charlie Chaplin's stolen coffin found (1978) Vaclav Havel's sentence commuted by Czechoslovakian government (1989) NFL Football teams (Colts, Steelers, & Browns) agreed to join AFL to form the AFC (1969) Whitney Houston's Greatest Love of All reached No. 1 (1986) Elsa Lubing became chief accountant of Cryolite Corp. (In Smilla's Sense of Snow; 1957) Brewsters Brewpub & Brasserie founded (Saskatchewan; 1989) Sea Dog Brewing Co. founded (Maine; 1993) |
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| 18 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Bertrand Russell Omar Khayyam Frank Capra Brooks Robinson Karl Goldmark Big Joe Turner Meredith Wilson Robert Morse Dennis Patrick Rick Wakeman Margot Fonteyn James Stephens Walter Gropius Nancy W. Langhorne Mikhail Bakunin Reggie Jackson Yannick Noah Fonteyn Margot Perry Como James Stephens Mother's Whistler William Heinemann Dwayne Hickman Sarah Peale Pernell Roberts Clifford Curzon Eurico Gaspar Dutra Rudolf Carnap Bill Macy Wilhelm Steinitz Pierre Balmain Nicholas II John Paul II |
Black Watch Day International Museum Day Apollon Day (God of Music Poetry, Sunlight) World Goodwill Day Peace Day Visit Your Relatives Day Moonbeam Hopping Gala (Fairy) St. Eric's Day (patron of Sweden) National Tenant's Day Flag Day (Haiti) Iris Festival Rooster Day St. John I's Day Whistling Festival Hispanic Family Day St. Theodotus' Day (patron of innkeepers) National Cheese Souffle Day St. Venantius' Day (patron of leaping, against danger from falling) |
| May 18 Events | Eurpean Convention on Human Rights took effect
(1954) 1st Wimpy Bar opened (London; 1955) Napoleon Bonaparte crowned Emperor of France (1804) Capital Punishment established Battle of Vicksburg Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt. Everest (1975) Paul Simon's Kodachrome released Mt. St. Helens volcano erupted (1980) 1st Man Spun 44 Plates Tennessee Valley Act passed (1933) Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapped? (1926) UK declared war on France (1803) Elaine met J. Peterman, catalog magnate (Seinfeld; 1995) India exploded its 1st atomic bomb (1974) Kingsmen recorded Louie, Louie (1963) Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve played the Park West, Chicago (1996) R.E.M.'s album Man Out of Time reached No, 1 (1991) Poem, Casey at the Bat 1st recited in a theatre (1888) Jimmy Soul's If You Wanna Be Happy reached No. 1 (1963) US Supreme Court declared racial segregation ok if "separate but equal" (Plessy v. Ferguson; 1896 (overturned in 1954)) |
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| 19 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Edward de Bono Nora Ephron James Lehrer Button Gwinnett Malcolm "X" Little Jim Lehrer Nora Ephron David Helfgott Carl Ethan Akeley Alan Guttmacher Jerry Hyman Pete Townsend John Hopkins Greg Herbert Nellie Melba James Fox Lorraine Hansberry Tom Scott Grace Jones Richie Ashburn William Waldorf Astor Carl Ethan Akeley Archie Manning Joan Staley (Pb 11/58) Curt Simmons David Hartman Anthony Bushell Joey Ramone Steven Ford Jenny Berggren Rick Cerone Iain Harvie Carol Eden (Pb 12/60) Glenn Close Ho Chi Minh |
May Ray Day Dark Day (UK) Orphan Day (Spain) St. Dunstan's Day (patron of goldsmiths) Youth and Sports Day (Turkey) International Chicken Flying Meet National Memo Day St. Peter Celestine's Day (patron of book-industry workers) Pardon of the Poor (Brittany) St. Dunstan's Day (patron of blacksmiths, goldsmiths, jewelers, locksmiths) Flag Day of the Army (Finland) St. Ivo of Kermartin's Day (patron of lawyers, judges, notaries, orphans, Brittany) Dulcimer Days begin Dance to Mark the Third of January (Fairy) St. Pudens' Day (Western) Ambridge Nationality Days (Pennsylvania) National Pike Festival St. Pudentiana's Day (patron of Philippines) Kirtland's Warbler Day National Devil's Food Cake Day |
| May 19 Events | England declared a Commonwealth (1649) Legion of Honor established (France; 1802) Father of the Bride premiered Boys' Clubs of America founded (1906) 1st Frog Jumping Contest held (Calaveras County, California; 1918) Homestead Bill passed 1st Classified Ad appeared Day the Earth Stood Still premiered Boston Bread Riot began (1713) 1st Opera broadcast on radio Immigration Act established Buick Motors incorporated (1903) 1st Fire Alarm System installed Anne Boylen, Henry VIII 2nd wife, beheaded (1536) NFL adopted the college draft system of selection in inverse order of standings (1935) Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick married (1997) Lancastrian System of education introduced (1806) Stevie Wonder's You Are the Sunshine of My Life reached No. 1 (1973) George landed a front-office job with the New York Yankees (Seinfeld; 1994) New England Sky became inexplicably dark during daytime (1780) Simplon Tunnel opened (between Switzerland & Italy; 1906) Kingdom of Tonga (aka the Friendly Islands) became a British protectorate (1900) UN Memorial Service & plaque placed in Cathedral Grove of Muir Woods, California (1945) Earl of Pembroke captured Piers Gaveston, a favorite of King Edward II, at Yorkshire (1312) Goose Island Brewing Co. founded (Illinois; 1988) |
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| 20 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Henri Rousseau John Stuart Mill Christopher Columbus Henrik Ibsen James Stewart Honore de Balzac William Thornton Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Sigrid Undset Emile Berliner Laurence Olivier William Hewlett Nick Heywood Eimi Mori Dolly Madison Jane Wiedlin William Fargo Joe Cocker Cher Sara Louisa Oberholtzer Frederic Passy Sigrid Undset Constance Towers Bud Grant Moshe Dayan John N. McKernan Bronson Pinchot Anthony Zerbe Dave Thomas Stephen Girard Joyce Nizzari (Pb 12/58) Warren Cohn Tom Gorman Ron Reagan Jr. Mindy Cohn George Gobel |
Beating of the Bounds (Old England) Mjollnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor's Hammer) Eliza Doolittle Day St. Bernadino of Siena's Day (patron of adverstising, publicity agents; against horseness) MPR Day (Zaire) Lafayette Day Massachusetts) Maritime Day Flower Day Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK) Cameroon Constitution Day Festival of the Chirping Crickets (Florence, Italy) Mecklenburg Day (North Carolina) Dainty-Four Remembrance Day (Fairy) Wisakha Bucha Day (Thailand) National Quiche Lorraine Day Weights and Measures Day Birthday of the Tathagata Buddha (Guatama) St. Ethelbert's Day (patron against thieves) Rhubarb Festival (Intercourse, Pennsylvania @) Taurus zodiac sign ends |
| May 20 Events | Nicea I eccumenical council began (325 CE) Fountain Pen patented (1830) 1st Speeding Ticket issued International Bureau of Weights and Measures established (1875) Levi's Blue Jeans with riveted pockets patented (1873) 1st Non-Intercourse Law enacted Charles Lindbergh began 1st transatlantic solo flight (1927) US Income Tax declared unconstitutional (1895) 1st Hydrogen Bomb dropped from the air (Bikini Atoll; 1956) France restored slavery and the slave trade (1802) Amelia Earhart began transatlantic solo flight by a woman (1932) Queen Victoria laid the cornerstone for the Albert Hall (1867) Fourierist Phalanx Commune established (Wisconsin; 1844) 1st Iron Boat floated Moccasins patented (1825) Last episode of Cheers aired (1993) Homestead Act signed by Lincoln (1862) 1st Recorded Earthquake Motor Voter Bill signed (1993) Quebec voted not to cecede from Canada (1980) St. Gothard's Tunnel opened (Switzerland) Last run of the Orient Express (1961) US makes 1st land grant for education law (1785) Shakespeare's Sonnets 1st published (1609) World expected to end as Halley's comet returned (1910) Let It Be premiered (1970) 1st Chelsea Flower Show held (1939) Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve played the Parkside, Boston (1996) Christopher Columbus died (1506) UK passed the Quebec Act (1774) Last US troops left Cuba (1902) Roman Emperor Cola di Rienzo attempted to restore the Republic (1347) North Carolina seceded from the Union (1861) 1st Miss India crowned Miss Universe (1994) Crete invaded by Nazi Germany (WW2; 1941) Spanish Armada set sail to go to war with England (1588) Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock released (1954) Conservative British MP Harvey Proctor admited using rent boys (1987) Treaty of Paris restored Gascony to the UK (11 Years War; 1303) Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut, India, completing his voyage around Africa (1498) Pan American Airways began 1st scheduled commercial service across Atlantic Ocean (1939) Connie Chung fired as co-anchor of CBS News (1995) Marriage of Angus and Laura, Somerset, UK (1st wedding in Four Weddings and a Funeral) Chicago pop band bassist and singer Peter Cetera beaten up by 3 men at a Chicago Cubs game because he had long hair (1971) Treaty of Jeddah signed, resulting in UK's recognition of Saudi Arabia's independence (1927) Cruiseliner Egypt collided with steamship Seine and sank off Ushant, losing 90 lives and 1 million sterling in gold and silver (1922) Treaty Grounds Brewpub founded (Idaho; 1994) |
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| 21 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Albrecht Durer Plato John Frederick Peto Armand Hammer Raymond Burr Fats Waller Robert Montgomery Marcel Breuer Rachel Carson Judge Reinhold Alexander Pope Robert Creeley Mr. T Alesha M. Oreskovich (Pb 6/93) Glenn Hammond Curtiss Elizabeth Gurney Fry Maria Innocentia Hummel Lisa Edelstein Andrei Sakharov Helen Roark Elizabeth Fry Ronald Isley Spike O'Dell Earl Averill Peggy Cass Leo Sayer Harold Robbins Nick Cassavetes Harvey Milk Rick Jason David Groh Carol Potter Stan Lynch William Einthoven James Dailey Philip II |
Feast of the Triple Scoop National Waitresses/Waiters Day Lilies and Roses Day (UK) Gemini zodiac sign begins Anasternarides Feast (Macedonia) Navy Day (Chile) Oberammergau Passion Play (Germany; since 1634) St. Andrew Bobola's Day Anastenarides Feast (Greece) Birthday of the Goddess of Midwifery (China) St. Helena's Day (Eastern) National Strawberries 'n Cream Day |
| May 21 Events | Saint debuted on network TV (1967) Lucite invented Mt. Vesuvius erupted American Red Cross established (1881) Blood, Sweat & Tears' Spinning Wheel released Viva Las Vegas premiered Let's Make a Deal debuted Spirt of St. Louis landed in Paris (1927) Empire Strikes Back premiered (1980) New Zealand became a British colony (1840) Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall married (1945) Elton John became 1st western rock star to play USSR (1979) Waterbury Watch, 1st low-cost watch, patented (1878) David Bowie's Let's Dance reached No. 1 (1983) Joanie Caucus graduated from law school (Doonesbury; 1977) Bikini Atoll subjected to 1st aerial hydrogen bomb test (1956) Treaty of Troyes united Enland and France under Henry V (1420) Oliver Evans granted monoply by Maryland for his "steam carriage" (1787) King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London (1471) Lady Jane Grey forcibly married Lord Guildford Dudley (1553) Pere Lachaise Cemetary opened (Paris; 1804) UK troops landed on the Falkland Islands (1982) Baader-Meinhof terrorists went on trial (Germany; 1975) Charles Linbergh completed the 1st transatlantic solo flight (1927) Last epsiode of Newhart revealed it was all a dream when Bob woke up next to Suzanne Pleshette (1990) Cosmic background radiation discovered, believed to be "embers" of big bang (1965) Michaelangelo's Pieta attacked by Hungarian nutball shouting "I am Jesus Christ" (1972) Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, 19 year old sons of millionaires, kidnapped and killed a 14-year old boy just "for thrills" (1924) |
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| 22 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Mary Casatt Arthur Conan Doyle Johann Sebastian Bach Richard Wagner Jean Tinguely Vance Packard Willem Einthoven Hubert Ross Al Simmons Laurence Oliver Paul Winfield Sun Ra Bernie Taupin Susan Strasberg Krishnamurti Frank Converse Annabel Chong Hua To Morrissey George Baker Heinz Holliger Michael Constantine Charles Aznavour Satyajat Ray Michael Sarrazin Gerard de Nerval Judith Christ Robert G. Sproul Tommy John Naomi Campbell Richard Benjamin Harvey Milk Dana Williams Albrecht Grafe Jesse Valenzuela Laura Young (Pb 10/62) Johnny Gill Peter Nero |
Buy-A-Musical Instrument Day Night of the Tree of Extremity (Islam) St. Julia's Day (patron of Corsica, Portugal) Ragnar Lodbrok (Viking) Sovereignity and Thanksgiving Day (Haiti) National Maritime Day Chelsea Flower Show (UK @) National Vanilla Pudding Day St. Rita of Cascia's Day (patron of desperate cases; against bleeding, infertility, loneliness, tumors, unhappy marriages) Yemen National Holiday Toad-Pinching (Pixies) La Abogada de Impossibles (St. Rita of Cascia's Day; patron of desperate cases) |
| May 22 Events | Associated Press established Rattlesnake 1st sold in cans Ceylon became Sri Lanka (1972) Beatles' Ticket To Ride reached No. 1 (1965) Orient Express made its last run (1977) Johnny Carson's last night hosting the Tonight Show (1992) 1st large-scale migration to Oregon began from Independence, Missouri (1843) Richard Nixon became 1st US President to visit USSR (1972) Wright Brothers patented the aircraft (1908) Bruce Springsteen recorded his 1st album (1966) Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve played the Supper Club, New York City (1996) Constantine became 1st Roman Emperor to be baptized into christianity (337) 1st Battle in War of the Roses began at St. Albans (1455) Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe found guilty of murdering 13 women (1981) San Juan Brewing Co. opened Front Street Ale House (1993; Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington) Americans 1st walk on Mars (1962; according to a character in the film Slackers) On the Floor of the US Senate, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats with his cane Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a strong opponent of slavery (1856) Saudia Arabia threatened to cut off diplomatic relations with UK for showing a documentary film, Death of a Princess, about the execution of a Saudi princess convicted of adultery. The Saudi government said if they didn't get their way, they'd take their oil and go home. |
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| 23 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Jewel Kilcher (1974) Artie Shaw Scatman Crothers Arabella Mansfield James Buchanan Eads Margaret Fuller Carolus Linnaeus Anatoly Karpov Franz Kline Robert Richard Moog Douglas Fairbanks Kimber West (Pb 2/97) Charles Barry Rosemary Clooney Kelly Marie Monaco (Pb 4/97) Richard Anuszkiewicz Harvey Milk Frederick A. Messmer Alicia de Larrocha Drew Carey John Newcombe Zack Wheat Barbara Ward Frank McHugh Charles Kimbrough Phil Selway Marvin Hagler Barbara Barrie Kathy Douglas (Pb 10/60) Lorenzo Maxwell Joan Collins |
Penny Day Rosalia (Old Roman Rose Festival) Vulcan's Day (Old Rome) Declaration of the Bab (Baha'i) Bluebell Day (Fairy) Madonna of the Mountain (Italy) Jamacian Labour Day Linnaeus Day (Sweden) St. Didier's Day (patron against perjury) National Taffy Day St. Ivo of Chartres' Day Coconut Grove Bed Race (Miami, Florida) Red-Hot Penny Throw (Rye; Sussex, UK) |
| May 23 Events | Canada's Mounties (Northwest Mounted Police) founded
(1873) Bifocals invented Captain Kidd hanged (1701) 1st Auto Trip from New York to San Francisco began South Carolina became the 8th state (1788) Jacques Costeau debuted on TV 1st French Open Tennis Tournament began German Federal Republic began Lost World: Jurassic Park premiered (1997) Temptations' Ball of Confusion released Presbyterian Church ordains its 1st woman minister (1955) 1st Couple married underwater using diver's hand signals (1988) Bonnie & Clyde gunned down (1939) Israelis captured Adolf Eichmann (1960) Vasco da Gama arrived in India (1498) Italian religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola hanged by his rivals for heresy (1498) Cherokee "Trail of Tears" killed 4,000 in forced march (1838) Everly Brothers' Cathy's Clown reached No. 1 (1960) Seinfeld's Chinese Restaurant episode aired (1991) Martial Law imposed at Jamestown to enforce discipline (1611) Tom Jefferson's letter initiates organization of the Democratic Party Heinrich Himmler commited suicide (1945) 1st West Indian immigrants invited to help Uk with post-war reconstruction left Jamaica (1948) |
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| 24 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Bob Dylan Elisa Bridges (Pb 12/94) Jan Christian Smuts Lois Ayres Tiffany M. Sloan (Pb 10/92) Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686) Kristen Scott Thomas Linnaeus Roseanne Cash Lillian M. Gilbreth William Gilbert Gary Burghoff Jean Paul Marat Wilbur Mills Samuel Newhouse William Trevor Philip Pearlstein Roger Caras James Peale Suzanne Lenglen Tommy Chong Gene Anthony Ray Joseph Brodsky Priscilla Presley Emanuel Leutze Joe Dumars Lilli Palmer Arthur Wing Pinero George Washington Carver Vivian "Luscious Jackson" Trimble Rich Robinson Genie Francis Jan Smuts Patti LaBelle John Walsh Alfred Molina Roger Caras Heavy D Queen Victoria |
Empire Day Feast of Hermes Trismegistus (patron of alchemy) The Mothers (Celtic Prosperity Festival) Eritrea Independence Day St. Sara's Day (patron of Gypsies) Camping with Barry White Day (David Letterman) Slavic Script and Culture Day (aka Enlightenment Day; Bulgaria) Empire Day (Canada) Commonwealth Day (Belize) St. Cyril's Day Education Day (Bermuda) Day for the Naming of Rocks and Planets (Fairy) Independence Battle Day (Ecuador) National Escargot Day St. Vincent of Lerins' Day Bermuda Day La Fete des Saintes Maries (Festival of the Holy Maries, Gypsy Festival, France) |
| May 24 Events | Brooklyn Bridge opened (1883) 1st Food-O-Mat installed Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti began (1921) 1st Bomb Shelter built (1959) Baseball's 1st Night Game played (Reds v. Phillies; 1935) 1st Public Garage opened Westminster Bridge opened (London; 1862) A.J. Foyt won the Indianapolis 500 (1967) Cruiser HMS Hood sank by Nazi German battleship Bismark (1941) Marx Brothers 1st film, Coconuts, premiered (1929) Act of Toleration passed (UK; 1689) 1st Telegraph message sent ("What hath God wrought?"; 1844) US Diplomatic Service tactfully established Anti-Saloon League formed (1893) Heaviest baby born (22 lbs., 8 oz.; 1982) Thelma & Louise premiered (1991) Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful arrested for possession of marijuana (London; 1968) 2nd US manned orbital flight in space completed (1962) Supersonic jetliner service began to Washington, DC (1976) John Brown led attack on Pottawatomie between pro and anti-slavery factions (1856) Battle of Pichincha secured independence for Ecuador (1822) Identical cousins Patty & Vathy 1st met (on the Patty Duke Show; 1964) Lord Lambton and Earl Jellico resigned over call girl/security scandal (1973) 1st Solo flight from UK to Australia by a woman completed (1930) Johnny Carson announced his retirement from the Tonight Show (1991) Over 300 people died in soccer riot after referee disallowed a home goal (Peru; 1964) Axl Rose filed for divorce from wife of 27 days Erin Everly (1990) Iran recaptured Khorramshahr from Iraq after 20 months of Iraqi occupation (Iran-Iraq War; 1983) French President Paul Deschanel fell from a train and was later found wandering in his pajamas (1920) Front Street Ale House/San Juan Brewing Co. founded (Washington; 1993) |
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| 25 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson Dashiell Hammett Frank Oz Bill "Mr. Bojangles" Robinson John Dunne Raymond Carver Miles Davis Chantal Eldridge Bulwer-Lytton Theodore Roethke Robert Ludlum Bennett Cerf John Raleigh Mott Igor Sikorsky Paul Weller Charles Livingston Bull Karen Valentine Daniel Barringer Ron Nesson Allison Stern Gene Tunney John Alexander Dowie Beverly Sills Jessi Colter Connie Selleca Ian McKellen Dixie Carter Martin Dihigo John Weitz Hal David Leslie Uggams Justin Henry Claude Akins K.C. Jones Jamaica Kincaid Philip Murray Tom T. Hall Marshall Tito Miss Piggy |
International Day Flitting Day (Scotland) Women's Day National Wine Day St. Bede the Venerable's Day (patron of scholars) Missing Children's Day Argentina Independence Day Saint Cool Day OAU Day (Equatorial Guinea) National Tap Dance Day St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi's Day National Don't Utter a Word Day Day of Youth (former Yugoslavia) St. Aldhelm's Day Lag B'Omer Day (Israel) Jordan Independence Day National Missing Children's Day Sudan Revolution Day Bath Festival (UK) St. Gregory VII's Day Africa Day (aka Africa Freedom Day; Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe) |
| May 25 Events | Chicago founded Scopes Monkey Trial began (1925) Babe Ruth hit home run #714 (1935) Star Wars premiered (1977) Gas Engine patented 1st National Spelling Bee held Lloyds of London incorporated (1871) Dow Jones Industrial Average debuted in the Wall Street Journal (1896) Return of the Jedi premiered (1983) St. Louis' Gateway Arch opened (1968) 1st Drug Rehab Center opened Glastonbury Monastary destroyed by fire Live Aid concert held to raise money for starving Ethiopians (1986) Poison Gas 1st used in warfare (by Germany; 1915) 2nd Battle of Ypres ended (WW1; 1915) Organization for African Unity founded (1963) 1st Book about Golf published Hippopotamus 1st exhibited in UK (1850) US Constitutional Convention opened (1787) 1st 24-Hour Automobile Race held (1907) Oscar Wilde convicted of indecency (1895) Kennedy gave his "putting a man on the moon by 1970" speech (1961) 1st Priest ordained in the US (1793) US athelete Jesse Owens set 6 world records in 45 miniutes (1936 Olympics) Toledo, Spain taken by the Moors (1085) DeSoto landed at Tampa, Florida (1539) Hands Across America formed a human line of 7 million people across the US (1986) 1st Woman Colonist set foot in America (1539) Fire Insurance 1st available in US (1721) Sudan government overthrown by military coup (1969) DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, killing 273 (1979) Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for preferring men (1895) Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executiave President of USSR (1989) Garry Trudeau appeared on To Tell the Truth (1971) Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn left Vermont to return from his exile to Russia (1994) UK Foreign Office Officials Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean disappeared, later turning up as Russian spies (1951) Sailor Hagar's Brewpub (British Columbia; 1994) |
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| 26 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Alexander Pushkin Bobcat Goldwaith John Wayne Helena Bonham-Carter Isadora Duncan Charles Winninger Sally Ride Mary W. Montgau Candace Collins (Pb 12/79) Peggy Lee Joseph Urban Sally Ride Moondog Spencer Gore Hank Williams Jr. Al Jolson Peter Cushing Robert Morley Brent Musburger Robert Morley Stevie Nicks Genie Francis Eugene Goossens Darrell Evans Jacques Bergerac Robyn Bernard Pam Grier Lenny Kravitz James Arness Phillip Rhodes Teresa Stratas Levon Helm Philip Michael Thomas Joey Kibble Sherry Bain John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough |
Grey Day St. Leonard's Day Feat of VooDoo Economics Windmill Day (Netherlands) Appalachian Trade Festival St. Augustine of Canterbury's Day Guyana Independence Day National Death Busters Day Georgia Independence Restoration Day St. Philip Neri's Day (patron of Rome) Goblin Races (Goblin) National Blueberry Cheesecake Day St. Quadratus' Day National Heroes Day (Turk and Caicos Islands) Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature begins (Wales @) |
| May 26 Events | John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Bed-In began (Montreal,
Canada; 1969) Largest Bass caught (59 lobs., 12 oz.) 1st Flower Show held Actor's Union established Barefoot In the Park premiered Aurangzeb ascended to the Mogul throne (1659) Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water released Betsy Ross' home given to City of Philadelphia 1st 24-hour Le Man auto race held (1923) Last Public Execution in England held (1868) Evacuation of Dunkirk (WW 2; 1940) Cats opened in Moscow (1988) Portugese Civil War ended (1834) General Custer and troops left Fort Lincoln heading for Little Big Horn (1876) Union organizers attacked at Ford plant (1937) British Guiana changed its name to Guyana (1966) Charles II returned from exile to Dover (1660) 1st Oil strike in Middle East (Persia; 1908) Napoleon Bonaparte crowned King of Italy in Milan (1805) Andrew Johnson found not guilty & not impeached (1868) 1st National Narcotic Sanitorium dedicated (1935) Edict of Worms outlawed Martin Luther and his followers (1521) Battle of Tara, UK troops killed 500 Irish rebels (1798) US President Andrew Johnson acquitted of impeachment charges (1868) Last Confederate resistence of US Civil War ended (New Orleans; 1865) Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London (WW2; 1942) Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, allowing those states to decide on slavery (1854) George Willig fined $1.10 for climbing World Trade Center in NYC (1977) House Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities formed (1938) |
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| 27 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Dashiell Hammett John Cheever Neil Finn Amelia Bloomer Rachel Carson Isadora Duncan Herman Wouk Julia Ward Howe Arnold Bennett Ramsey Lewis Oswald Spengler Sam Snead Ibn Khaldun Vincent Price Lee Meriwether Wild Bill Hickok Louis Gossett Jr. Siouxsie Sioux Cilia Black Pat Cash Cornelius Vanderbilt Jay Gould Richard Schiff William Sessions Bruce Weitz John Barth Siouxsie Sioux Eddie Harsch Bruce Cockburn Christopher Lee Henry Kissinger Arnold Bennett Cathy Silvers Sean Kinney Left Eye Harold Rome Christopher J. Dodd Hubert H. Humphrey Todd Bridges Don Williams Andre (Outkast) William II |
Covered Bridge Festival Buttercup Day Season of Confusion begins (Discordian) Body Painting Arts Festival Throw the Bastards Out Day Children's Day (Nigeria) St. Augustine of Canterbury's Day (patron of England) Findle Fritters' Stoat-Wheedling Event (Fairy) National Grape Popsicle Day |
| May 27 Events | Golden Gate Bridge opened (1937) 1st Wind Tunnel built US Piano patented Bismark sank (1941) 1st Witch Execution in US Wings' Venus & Mars released 25,000 massacred in Paris Commune (1871) Queen Mary set sail on her maiden voyage (1936) Muhammed Ali refused being drafted (1967) 1st Running of The Preakness (1873) Cormwell refused UK Parliament's offer to be King (1657) HMS Gaspee burned in Rhode Island (1772) 1st International Master chess tournament held (1851) Believe it or not, Robert Ripley died (1949) Rita Hayworth married Prince Aly Khan (1949) Disney's Melody Time premiered (1948) Chinese Communists took Shanghai (1949) Peter Stuyvesant inaugurated Governor of New Amsterdam (1647) Chi-Lites' Oh Girl reached No. 1 (1972) Buddy Holly's 1st Record released (1957) Chrysler Building 1st opened to the public (1930) Tibet incorporated into China (1951) Coca-Cola introduced the 1st automatic fountain dispenser (1933) Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen released (1977) Christopher Reeves left paralyzed from the shoulders down after a riding accident (1995) A Canadian man acquitted of murdering his mother by reason of "sleepwalking" despite the fact that he drove 14 miles, hit her with an iron bar, and then stabbed her (1988) |
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| 28 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Ian Fleming Solomon Morgan Fox (Pb 12/90) Billy Vera Thomas Moore Susie Diane Owens (Pb 3/88) William Pitt (the Younger) Leisa Sheridan (Pb 7/93) Jim Thorpe T-Bone Walker Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Carroll Baker Jean Louis Agassiz Patrick White Lynn Johnston Barry Commoner Rudolph Guilani Louis Agassiz Jerry West Sojourner Truth Gladys Knight Joseph Guillotin Kirk Gibson Dionne Quintuplets Carroll Baker John Fogerty Patti Reynolds (Pb 9/65) Walker Percy Kylie Minogue Beth Howland Victoria Cunningham (Pb 4/75) Roland Gift Edward Seaga Sandra Locke General P.G.T. Beauregard Madeline Le Rouix Gary Stewart Chubb Rock Gloria Root (Pb 12/69) Warren Giles George I |
Whale Day Feast of Zerowork American Film Festival (@) St. Bernard of Montjoux's Day (patron of mountain climbers, skiers) Azerbaijan National Day Day of the Pin-Hiding and Button-Losing (Fairy) Runic half-month of Ing ends National Hamburger Day Slugs return from Capistrano |
| May 28 Events | Sir Edmund Hilary planted flags on Mt. Everest
(1953) Two Hour Work Day 1st advocated (1955) 1st All-Color Talking Film premiered US Border Patrol established Paris Commune collapsed (1871) 1st Book Club established Golden Gate Bridge opened (1937) Finnish teenager flew his Cessna to Moscow, buzzing the Kremlin as a prank (1987) 1st All-women crew finished around-the-world yacht race (1990) US launched 2 monkeys into space (1959) Sierra Club founded (1892) Flashdance reached No. 1 (1983) 1st Sermon in a Jewish service in America (1773) Belgium surrendered to Germany (WW2; 1940) Indian Removal Act enacted (1830) Last day of school in film Dazed and Confused (1976) 1st Photos taken of Shroud of Turin (1898) Indian Removal Act passed, moving all Native Americans west of the Mississippi River (1830) 1st World Weighlifting Championship held (1891) IRA Gunmen accidently shot dead 2 Australian tourists in Amsterdam, mistaking them for British soldiers (1990) |
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| 29 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| T.H. White Patrick Henry John F. Kennedy Gilbert K. Chesterton Isaac Albeniz Joseph von Sternberg Lisa Whelchel Paul Ehrlich Erich Wolfgang Korngold Danny Elfman Bob Hope Ebenezer Butterick Chan Kinchla Annette Bening Melanie Brown Al Unser Sr. Oswald Spengler Felix Rohatyn Beatrice Lillie Anthony Geary Fay Vincent Eric Davis Johnny "Blue Moon" Odom Shay Knuth (Pb 9/69) Gary Brooker Rebbie Jackson Herb Shriner Lisa Whelchel Kevin Conway Playa Poncho La Toya Jackson Charles II |
End of the Middle Ages Day Restoration Day Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i) Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium) Bobby Ack Day (Ulverston, UK) Nettle Day Runic half-month of Odal (home, possession) begins Ambarvailia (Old Roman Purification Festival to Ceres) Oak Apple Day (aka Royal Oak Day; UK) St. Bona's Day (patron of flight attendants) Royal Hospital Founder's Day (UK) Yak Bob Day (Westmoreland, UK) Shick-Shack Day (aka Shitsack Day, Shik-Shak Day) National Coq Au Vin Day |
| May 29 Events | Theory of Relativity 1st tested Wisconsin became the 30th state (1848) Top of Mt. Everest 1st reached (1953) Rhode Island became the 13th state (1790) Charles II of England restored to the throne Vertigo premiered Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered (1913) Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells released Escalator patented Battle of Legnano (1167) Rhode Island became the 13th state (1790) Flag of the US President adopted (1916) Longest Scarf completed (20 miles, 13 feet; 1988) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas published 1st Arms Reduction Pact between US & USSR signed (1972) Empress of Ireland lost at sea (1914) Bing Crosby recorded White Christmas (1942) Hollow Earth theory 1st published Pope 1st visited England (1982) Bonus March on Washington, DC (1932) Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar reached No. 1 (1971) "Virginia Plan" proposed at Constitutional Convention (1787) Nazi troops captured Ypres, Belgium and Lille, France (WW2; 1940) 39 Killed in riot between fans of Liverpool & Juventus at European Cup Final (1985) Byzantine Empire ended when Constantinople fell to the Turks (1453) Ricky Nelson's Travelin' Man reached No. 1 (1961) Cedar Point Park time capsule was buried (until 2045; Sandusky, Ohio; 1995) 41 Killed in soccer riot at European Cup Final during Liverpool v. Juventus (Belgium; 1985) Boris Yeltsin elected to Supreme Soviet (1989) Abraham Lincoln warned "you can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" (1856) |
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| 30 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| King Arthur Beny Goodman Peter the Great Mel Blanc Colleen Applegate (aka Shauna Grant) Linda Wiesmeier (Pb 7/82) Peter Carl Faberge Beth Kruger Alfred Austin Bob Evans Alice Sophia Stopford Frankie Trumbauer Vanessa Bell Countee Cullen Rafael Kubelik Peter Faberge Otis Skinner Howard Hawks Gale Sayers Irving Thalberg Michael J. Pollard Clint Walker Ernesto de La Guardia Stepin Fetchit Nicky Headon Amos Rusie Winona Judd Michael J. Pollard Johnny Gimble Wynonna Patrick Dahlheimer Tom Morello Clint Walker Sparkle Plenty (Dick Tracy) Cee-Lo |
Frigg's Day (Norse Queen of Heaven) Decoration Day Feast Day of St. Joan of Arc (patron of France) My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Day St. Ferdinand III's Day (patron of engineers, governors, rulers) Croatia National Day Loomis Day This Day (Fairy) Account Days end (from 12th) St. Walston's Day (patron of farmers) National Mint Julep Day |
| May 30 Events | Dr. No premiered Krypton discovered 1st Automobile Accident occurred (1896) Lincoln Memorial dedicated (1922) De Soto landed in Florida (1539) A Streetcar Named Desire premiered 1st Hovercraft launched (1959) Hall of Fame for Great Americans dedicated (1901) Nevada Smith premiered Joan of Arc burned at the stake (1431) Ice Cream Freezer patented 1st Memorial Day celebrated (1868) Beatles' Love Me Do reached No. 1 (1964) US Marines took Okinawa (WW 2) Columbus left on his 3rd voyage (1498) 1st Corporation incorporated Marburg University founded (Germany; 1527) Pope John Paul II said "no way" to female priests (1994) 1st Indianapolis 500 race held (1911) Henry VIII married Jane Seymour (1536) Aukland Harbour Bridge opened (New Zealand; 1959) Construction began on Lincoln Memorial (1915) Pennsylvania Evening Post, 1st US daily newspaper, published (1783) Andrew Jackson killed fellow lawyer Charles Dickinson in a dual over a personal insult (1806) Detroit & Mackinac Brewery founded (Michigan; 1992) Ozark Brewing Co. founded (Arkansas; 1994) |
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| 31 May | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Walt Whitman Clint Eastwood William Mayo Lea Thompson Adrian Tomine John Smith Sarah Ellis William R. Sickert Chris Elliot Ellsworth Kelly Don Ameche William Heath Robinson Brooke Shields Denholm Elliott Tom Berenger Joe Namath Terry Waite Johnny Paycheck Gregory Harrison Peter Yarrow Sharon Gless Edward Bennett Williams Prince Ranier III of Monaco John Bonham Henry Jackson Maeve Kinkead Felix "Tippy" Martinez Norman Vincent Peale Elaine Stewart Corey Hart Manuel I Pius XI Imhotep of Egypt (2900 BCE) |
Syaday (Discordian) World No-Tobacco Day Ambarvalia (Old Roman; No Work Day) Speak In Complete Sentences Day Feast of the Visitation This Day (again; Fairy) Union Day (South Africa) National Senior Health & Fitness Day St. Petronilla's Day (patron against ague) Royal Brunei Malay Regiment Day National Macaroon Day |
| May 31 Events | Lady Godiva's ride (1678) Bra invented Cornflakes patented (1884) 1st Cricket Match played Battle of Jutland (WW 1; 1916) 1st Quadruplets finished college Reindeer 1st born in US Superman debuted in Action Comic #1 (1938) Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released (1967) Last Model T Ford made (1927) 1st US Copyright Law enacted (1790) Boer War ended (1902) Rossini's La Gazza Ladra premiered Johnstown Flood (1889) 1st Strike took place Savage Tales #1 published Taximeter cabs 1st appeared in New York City (1907) Angola Civil War ended (1991) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel opened (NYC; 1836) John Lennon recorded Give Peace a Chance (1969) Exemption from US military service 1st offered to Conscientious Objectors (1918) South Africa declared itself to be independent (1961) Nazi Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel (1961) Rolling Stones played their 1st US concert (at a high school; 1964) Freddy Fender's Before the Next Teardrop Falls reached No. 1 (1975) Playwright Arthur Miller arrested for refusing to rat on other writers who were communists (1957) |
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