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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 |