Important Dates: May 2017 |
Days
2nd WorldAsthma Day Link
3rd World Press Freedom Day Link
4th Star Wars Day Link
5th International Day of the Midwife Link
5th Save Lives Clean your Hands Link
7th International Dawn Chorus Day Link
8th World Ovarian Cancer Day Link
12th International Nurses Day Link
13th-14th National Mills Weekend Link
15th International Day of Families Link
17th-20th Museums at Night Weekend Link
17th World Hypertension Day Link
18th International Museums Day Link
22nd World Goth Day Link
23rd World Turtle Day Link
25th Towel Day Link
28th World Hunger Day Link
31st World No Tobacco Day Link
Weeks
29th Apr-7th Dystonia Awareness Week Link
30th Apr-6th Hedgehog Week Link
4th-10th Viral Meningitis Week Link
6th-13th National Doughnut Week Link
8th-14th Sun Awareness Week Link
8th-14th Action for Brain Injury Week Link
8th-14th Coeliac Awareness Week Link
8th-14th Arthritis Care Awareness Week Link
8th-14th ME Awareness Week Link
8th-14th Mental Health Awareness Week Link
8th-21st Foster Care Fortnight Link
14th-20th British Sandwich Week Link
14th-20th Dementia Awareness Week Link
14th-20th Christian Aid Week Link
14th-20th National Epilepsy Week Link
15th-19th Walk to School Week Link
15th-21st Learning at Work Week Link
15th-21st Deaf Awareness Week Link
15th-21st National Vegetarian Week Link
22nd-28th British Tomato Week Link
22nd -28th Children’s Hospice Week Link
27th -4th June National Go Canoeing Week Link
Months
Action on Stroke Month Link
Local and Community History Month
National Share a Story Month Link
National Smile Month 15th May-15th June Link
National Walking Month Link
May Religious Dates
1st Beltane (Pagan)
1st Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Jewish)
2nd Twelfth Day of Ridvan – twelfth Day (Bahai)
10th Visakha Puja – Buddha Day (Buddhist)
12th Lailal al Bara’ah (Islam)
14th Lag B’Omer (Jewish)
23rd Declaration of the Bab (Bahai)
25th Ascension Day (Christian)
27th Ramadan begins (Islam)
29th Ascension of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)
31st-1st June Shavout (Jewish)
May National Days
3rd Poland
10th Micronesia
14th Paraguay
14th Israel
17th Norway
20th Cameroon
22nd Yemen
24th Eritrea
24th Bermuda
25th Argentina
25th Jordan
26th Georgia
28th Ethiopia
28th Armenia
30th Anguilla
May This Day in History
1st England and Scotland become Great Britain (1707)
1st Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition (1851)
2nd First satellite TV programme links 9 countries (1965)
2nd Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano torpedoed and sunk (1982)
2nd First scheduled jet flight (London to Johannesburg) (1952)
3rd ITA becomes second TV Channel (1955)
4th The first ever general strike begins (1926)
4th Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister in UK (1979)
5th Napoleon Bonaparte dies (1821)
5th Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (1961)
6th Roger Bannister breaks 4 minute mile (1954)
6th Queen Elizabeth and President Mitterrand open Chunnel (1994)
7th The Theatre Royal in Drury Lane opens (1663)
7th The voting age for women in Britain goes from 30 to 21 (1926)
8th Sweden abolishes the death penalty (1921)
8th Winston Churchill announces the end of WW2 (1945)
8th Charles II pronounced king of England (1660)
9th Colonel Blood steals Crown Jewels from Tower of London (1671)
10th Nelson Mandela becomes first black South African President (1994)
11th Spencer Perceval becomes the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated (1812)
14th Edward Jenner carries out first vaccination against smallpox (1796)
14th Jewish Groups proclaim State of Israel (1948)
17th A British group set off on first package holiday (1861)
18th The European Convention on Human Rights comes into being (1954)
19th Helen Sharman becomes first Briton in space (1991)
21st Charles Lindbergh makes first solo flight across Atlantic (1927)
22nd Wars of the Roses begins (1455)
29th Charles Stuart becomes Charles II (1660)
30th Joan of Arc burns at the stake (1431)
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