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May 2008
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month

1 - Sudoku First Published as Number Place in Dell Puzzle Magazine
1979

1 – 7 National Postcard Week

- May Day

-
Worker’s Day, South Africa

- Mother Goose Day

- Space Day

3 - Whale Awareness Day (in Massachusetts)

- National Scrapbooking Day (USA)

-World Press Freedom Day

4-10 Music Week

4-10 Computer Education Week

4-10 Teacher Appreciation Week

4 - Fire-fighters Day

5 - Elizabeth Jane Cochran's, Known
as Nellie Bly, Birthday 1864

-
Cinco de Mayo

- Cartoonist Day

7 - Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Premiere 1824

6 -
World Asthma Day

8 - World Red Cross Day

10 - Central and Union Pacific Railroads Meet 1869

11 - Richard Feynman's Birthday 1918

11-17 National Police Week (USA)

11-17 National Transportation Week (USA)

12 - Edward Lear's Birthday (Celebrated as Limerick Day) 1812

12-18 Children’s Books Week

12 - Start of California Gold Rush 1848

- International Migratory Bird Day

- National Windmill Day (Holland)

13 -
Mother's Day (postcard)

- Mother's Day

14- First permanent British colony Established in Jamestown, Virginia
1607

- Lewis & Clark Leave St. Louis 1804

15 -
L. Frank Baum's Birthday 1856 – Download the Scarecrow of oz

- Discovery of Largest Prime Number Known to Man

-
International Day of Families

16 - Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp, CA

- Jerusalem Day

17-23 Deaf Awareness Week

17 - Sue Debuts at Field Museum

18 - Karol Wojtyla Birthday (Pope John Paul II)  1920

18-24 Buckle Up Week

Backyard Games Week

19 - Circus Day, Anniversary of First Ringling
Brothers Performance 1884

- Frog Jump Day

20-21 Charles Lindbergh Flies Historic Solo
Nonstop Transatlantic Flight 1927

20 - Weights and Measures Day

- Amelia Earhart's Atlantic Crossing 1932

- Good Neighbour Day

20-27 Hurricane Awareness Week

22 - Most Powerful Earthquake of the 20th Century Struck Chile 1960

21-28 National Backyard Games Week

23 - World Turtle Day

25 –
Africa Day

28 - Memorial Day (USA)

- Amnesty International Day

27 - Cellophane Tape Patented 1930

- Golden Gate Bridge Opened 1937

29 - John F. Kennedy's Birthday 1917

30 - First Daily American Newspaper Published 1783

31 - Walt Whitman's Birthday 1819

Spelling Bee Week

31 - Mark Felt Reveals Himself as Watergate's Deep Throat 2005

31 -
World No Tobacco Day


Asian-Pacific_American Heritage Month

Better Hearing and Speech Month

Clean Air Month

Get Caught Reading Month

Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

Mental Health Month

National Physical Fitness and Sports Month (USA)

Skin Cancer Awareness Month