Important Dates: May 2014

May 2014 Dates

Days

3^rd      World Press Freedom Day Link

4^th      International Dawn Chorus Day Link

4^th      Star Wars Day Link

5^th      International Day of the Midwife Link

5^th      Save Lives Clean your Hands Link

6^th           WorldAsthma Day Link

10^th     World Fair Trade Day Link

10^th-11^th National Mills Weekend Link

12^th     International Nurses Day Link

15^th     International Day of Families Link

15^th-17^th Museums at Night Weekend Link

18^th     International Museums Day Link

23^rd     World Turtle Day Link

25^th     Towel Day Link

28^th     World Hunger Day Link

31^st     World No Tobacco Day Link

Weeks

3^rd-10^th Get Walking Week Link

3^rd-11^th Dystonia Awareness Week Link

5^th-11^th Sun Awareness Week Link

5^th-11^th Viral Meningitis Week Link

6^th-13^th Donkey Week Link

10^th-16^th Real Bread Maker Week Link

10^th-17^th National Doughnut Week Link

11^th-17^th British Sandwich Week Link

11^th-17^th Christian Aid Week Link

11^th-17^th ME Awareness Week Link

11^th-17^th Work Wise Week Link

12^th-16^th Walk to Work Week Link

12^th-18^th Action for Brain Injury Week Link

12^th-25^th Foster Care Fortnight Link

14^th-25^th Be Nice to Nettles Week Link

18^th-25^th Dementia Awareness Week Link

18^th-25^th National Epilepsy Week Link

19^th-23^rd Walk to School Week Link

19^th-25^th British Tomato Week Link

19^th-25^th Deaf Awareness Week Link

19^th-25^th Learning at Work Week Link

19^th-25^th National Vegetarian Week Link

26^th-1^st   National BBQ Week Link

Months

Hughes Syndrome Awareness Month  Link

Local and Community History Month Link

National Asparagus Month Link

National Share a Story Month Link

National Smile Month   19^th May-19^th June Link

May Religious Dates

1^st       Beltane (Pagan)

2^nd      Ridvan – twelfth Day (Bahai)

2^nd      Birthday of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikh – Nanakshahi Calendar)

4^th      Yom Hazikaron (Jewish)

5^th      Yom Ha’atzmaut (Jewish)

14^th     Wesak or Buddha Day (Buddhist)

18^th     Lag b’Omer (Jewish)

23^rd     Declaration of the Bab (Bahai)

23^rd     Birthday of Guru Amar Das (Sikh-Nanakshahi calendar)

25^th     St Bede the Venerable (Christian)

28^th     Yom Yerushalayim (Jewish)

29^th     Ascension of Baha’u’llah

29^th     Ascension Day (Christian)

May National Days

3^rd      Poland

10^th     Micronesia

14^th     Paraguay

14^th     Israel

17^th     Norway

20^th     Cameroon

22^nd    Yemen

24^th     Eritrea

24^th     Bermuda

25^th     Argentina

25^th     Jordan

26^th     Georgia

28^th     Ethiopia

28^th     Armenia

30^th     Anguilla

May This Day in History

1^st       England and Scotland become Great Britain (1707)

1^st       Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition (1851)

2^nd      First satellite TV programme links 9 countries (1965)

2^nd      Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano torpedoed and sunk (1982)

2^nd      First scheduled jet flight (London to Johannesburg) (1952)

3^rd      ITA becomes second TV Channel (1955)

4^th      The first ever general strike begins (1926)

4^th      Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister in UK (1979)

5^th      Napoleon Bonaparte dies (1821)

5^th      Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (1961)

6^th      Roger Bannister breaks 4 minute mile (1954)

6^th      Queen Elizabeth and President Mitterrand open Chunnel (1994)

7^th      The Theatre Royal in Drury Lane opens (1663)

7^th      The voting age for women in Britain goes from 30 to 21 (1926)

8^th      Sweden abolishes the death penalty (1921)

8^th      Winston Churchill announces the end of WW2 (1945)

8^th        Charles II pronounced king of England (1660)

9^th      Colonel Blood steals Crown Jewels from Tower of London (1671)

10^th     Nelson Mandela becomes first black South African President (1994)

11^th     Spencer Perceval becomes the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated (1812)

14^th     Edward Jenner carries out first vaccination against smallpox (1796)

14^th     Jewish Groups proclaim State of Israel (1948)

17^th     A British group set off on first package holiday (1861)

18^th     The European Convention on Human Rights comes into being (1954)

19^th     Helen Sharman becomes first Briton in space (1991)

21^st     Charles Lindbergh makes first solo flight across Atlantic (1927)

22^nd    Wars of the Roses begins (1455)

29^th     Charles Stuart becomes Charles II (1660)

30^th     Joan of Arc burns at the stake (1431)

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