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May 2025
May is “Flower Month”
May is “Flower Month”
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Wed. Apr. 30
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Thu. May. 1
Save the Rhino Day
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Fri. May. 2
Elijah McCoy (inventor) born, 1844
Do a cloze activity on McCoy.
Leonardo da Vinci died, 1519
3
Sat. May. 3
Constitution Day, Japan
First airplane landed at North Pole, 1952
4
Sun. May. 4
Greenery Day, Japan
International Firefighters Day
5
Mon. May. 5
Cinco de Mayo
Children's Day, Japan
6
Tue. May. 6
Sigmund Freud (psychoanalyst) born, 1856
National Teachers Day
7
Wed. May. 7
Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel prize-winner, Hindu poet and composer) born, 1861
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Thu. May. 8
V-E Day - Victory in Europe, Germany's surrender in World War II, 1945
First Westminister Dog Show held, 1877
9
Fri. May. 9
First Newspaper Cartoon (in the USA), 1754
10
Sat. May. 10
Independence Day, Israel
Peace Day
11
Sun. May. 11
Salvador Dali born, 1904
Minnesota became a state, 1858
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Mon. May. 12
Manitoba became a province of Canada, 1870
Florence Nightingale born, 1820
13
Tue. May. 13
Republic of Ecuador was founded, 1830
Tulip Day
14
Wed. May. 14
Lewis and Clark start their expedition west, 1803
Thomas Gainsborough (artist) born, 1727
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Sat. May. 17
Constitution Day, Norway
French and Indian War Began, 1756
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Sun. May. 18
Flag Day, Haiti
Mount St. Helens Erupted, 1980
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Mon. May. 19
Victoria Day (Canada)
Sarah Peale (portrait artist) born, 1800
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Tue. May. 20
Last Quarter Moon
11:59 AM GMT
Flower Day
21
Wed. May. 21
Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris after the first solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the plane,"The Spirit of St. Louis", 1927
Mary Anning (fossil hunter) born, 1799
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Thu. May. 22
Mary Cassatt born, 1844
International Day for Biological Diversity
National Bike to School Day
23
Fri. May. 23
National Day (Amendment of the Constitution), Morocco
South Carolina became a state, 1788
24
Sat. May. 24
First Morse Code Message Sent - from Washington DC to Baltimore, 1844
Read about Morse code, then write your name in Morse code.
25
Sun. May. 25
President John Kennedy announced Apollo goal of going to the Moon, 1961
Africa Day
27
Tue. May. 27
Rachel Carson (ecologist) born, 1907
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Thu. May. 29
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the top of Mount Everest, 1953
Rhode Island became a state, 1790
Wisconsin became a state, 1848
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Fri. May. 30
Mariner 9 was launched towards Mars, 1971
Lincoln Memorial Dedication
31
Sat. May. 31
Julius Richard Petri born, 1852
Petri invented the Petri dish. Label the bacterium.
National Save Your Hearing Day