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May 2013 Educators' Calendar

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 2013

 

 

 
1

May Day

Empire State Building Opened (1931)

2

Soviet Union Announced Fall of Berlin (1945)

Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa (1994)

3

National Scrapbooking Day

World Press Freedom Day

4

International Firefighters Day

Freedom Riders Left D.C. for New Orleans (1961)

5

Cinco de Mayo (Mexico)

John Scopes Arrested for Teaching Darwinism (1926)

First American in Space (1961)

May 5-12

National Music Week

6

International No Diet Day

Psychoanalysist Sigmund Freud's Birthday (1856)

Hindenburg Disaster (1937)

May 6-10

Teacher Appreciation Week

7

National Teacher Day

World Asthma Day

Composer Peter Tchaikovsky's Birthday (1840)

Lusitania Sunk (1915)

8

School Nurse Day

World Red Cross Day

Pres. Harry S. Truman's Birthday (1884)

VE Day (1945)

9

Ascension Day (Christian Feast Day)

John Brown's Birthday (1800)

Beatles Signed First Recording Contract (1962)

10

Giant Squid Attack (1847)

First Transcontinental Railway Completed (1869)

Nelson Mandela Became South Africa's President (1994)

11

World Fair Trade Day

Minnesota Admission Day (1858)

Sports Writer Mike Lupica's Birthday (1952)

12

Mother's Day

Kite Day

Florence Nightingale's Birthday (1820)

Pres. Jimmy Carter Visited Cuba (2002)

May 12-18

Police Week

Transportation Week

13

U.S. Declared War on Mexico (1846)

May 13-19

Children's Book Week

14

Shavuot (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown

Lewis and Clark Expedition Began (1803)

First Olympic Games Held in U.S. (1904)

First U.S. Space Station Launched (1973)

15

International Day of Families

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Created (1862)

First Air Mail Route Established in U.S. (1918)

16

Biographers Day

First U.S. Nickel Minted (1866)

17

International Day Against Homophobia

New York Stock Exchange Established (1792)

Supreme Court Ruled on Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

18

Armed Forces Day

International Museum Day

Pope John Paul II's Birthday (1920)

Mount St. Helens Erupted (1980)

19

Pentecost/Whitsunday

New England Confederation Formed (1643)

20

Dolley Madison's Birthday (1768)

Charles Lindbergh Began Transatlantic Flight (1932)

21

American Red Cross Established (1881)

Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic (1932)

First Hydrogen Bomb Dropped by Air (1956)

22

Buy a Musical Instrument Day

International Day for Biological Diversity

Pres. Nixon Visited the Soviet Union (1972)

23

Botanist Carolus Linnaeus's Birthday (1707)

South Carolina Admission Day (1788)

Wright Brothers Patented the Aircraft (1906)

May 23-29

Backyard Games Week

24

First Telegraph Message Transmitted (1844)

Brooklyn Bridge Opened (1883)

Israeli Troops Pulled Out of Lebanon (2000)

25

International Missing Children's Day

Fork Debuted in U.S. (1630)

Babe Ruth Hit 714th Home Run (1935)

Jesse Owens Broke Three World Records (1935)

26

Dorothea Lange's Birthday (1895)

Sally Ride's Birthday (1951)

27

Memorial Day

First Recorded Witch Execution (1647)

St. Petersburg Founded (1703)

Golden Gate Bridge Opened (1937)

28

Athlete Jim Thorpe's Birthday (1888)

Sierra Club Founded (1892)

Linda Finch Completed Earhart's Flight Around the World (1997)

29

Rhode Island Admission Day (1790)

Wisconsin Admission Day (1848)

Hillary and Tenzing Reached Mt. Everest Summit (1953)

30

Indianapolis 500 Debuted (1911)

Lincoln Memorial Dedicated (1927)

31

World No Tobacco Day

First U.S. Copyright Law Enacted (1790)

South Africa Became Independent (1961)

 


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