Important Dates: May 2018

Days

2^nd WorldAsthma Day Link

3^rd World Press Freedom 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 International Dawn Chorus Day Link

8^th World Ovarian Cancer Day Link

9^th Europe Day Link

10^th World Lupus Day Link

12^th International Nurses Day Link

12^th World Fair Trade Day Link

12^th National Limerick Day

12^th-13^th National Mills Weekend Link

13^th National Children’s Day Link

15^th International Day of Families Link

16^th-19^th Museums at Night Weekend Link

18^th International Museums Day Link

18^th Hats for Headway Day Link

22^nd World Goth 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

5^th-13^th Dystonia Awareness Week Link

6^th-12^th Hedgehog Week Link

6^th-12^th Red Cross Week Link

7^th-13^th ME Awareness Week Link

8^th-15^th Donkey Week Link

12^th-19^th National Doughnut Week Link

13^th-19^th Christian Aid Week Link

14^th-20^th National Epilepsy Week Link

14^th-20^th Sun Awareness Week Link

14^th-20^th Coeliac Awareness Week Link

14^th-20^th Mental Health Awareness Week Link

14^th-20^th Learning at Work Week Link

14^th-20^th Deaf Awareness Week Link

14^th-20^th National Vegetarian Week Link

14^th-27^th  Foster Care Fortnight Link

14^th-20^th Action for Brain Injury Week Link

20^th-26^th British Sandwich Week Link

21^st-27^th Dementia Awareness Week Link

21^st-25^th Walk to School Week Link

21^st -27^th British Tomato Week Link

21^st -27^th Children’s Hospice Week Link

26^th -3^rd  June National Go Canoeing Week Link

Months

Action on Stroke Month Link

Local and Community History Month Link

May Measurement Month Link

National Share a Story Month Link

National Smile Month 14^th May-14^thJune Link

National Walking Month Link

May Religious Dates

1^st Beltane (Pagan)

1^st Lailal al Bara’ah (Islam)

2^nd Last Day of Ridvan (Bahai)

3^rd Lag B’Omer (Jewish)

10^th Ascension of Jesus (Christian)

16^th Ramadan begins (Islam)

20^th-21^stJune Shavout (Jewish)

20^th Pentecost (Christian)

23^rd Declaration of the Bab (Bahai)

27^th Trinity Sunday (Christian)

29^th Ascension of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)

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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