May 2013 Educators' Calendar

May Day

World Asthma Day

Empire State Building Opened (1931)

Soviet Union Announced Fall of Berlin (1945)

Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa (1994)

National Scrapbooking Day

World Press Freedom Day

International Firefighters Day

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

Cinco de Mayo (Mexico)

John Scopes Arrested for Teaching Darwinism (1926)

First American in Space (1961)

International No Diet Day

Psychoanalysist Sigmund Freud's Birthday (1856)

Hindenburg Disaster (1937)

National Music Week

Composer Peter Tchaikovsky's Birthday (1840)

Lusitania Sunk (1915)

Children's Book Week

Teacher Appreciation Week

National Teacher Day

World Red Cross Day

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

VE Day (1945)

Lag BaOmer (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown

School Nurse Day

John Brown's Birthday (1800)

Beatles Signed First Recording Contract (1962)

Giant Squid Attack (1847)

First Transcontinental Railway Completed (1869)

Nelson Mandela Became South Africa's President (1994)

Minnesota Admission Day (1858)

Sports Writer Mike Lupica's Birthday (1952)

Kite Day

World Fair Trade Day

Nurse Florence Nightingale's Birthday (1820)

Pres. Jimmy Carter Visited Cuba (2002)

Mother's Day

U.S. Declared War on Mexico (1846)

"When the Saints Go Marching In" Recorded (1938)

Police Week

Transportation Week

Lewis and Clark Expedition Began (1804)

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

First U.S. Space Station Launched (1973)

International Day of Families

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

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

Biographers Day

First U.S. Nickel Minted (1866)

Ascension Day (Christian Feast Day)

International Day Against Homophobia

New York Stock Exchange Established (1792)

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

International Museum Day

Pope John Paul II's Birthday (1920)

Mount St. Helens Erupted (1980)

Armed Forces Day

New England Confederation Formed (1643)

Dolley Madison's Birthday (1768)

Charles Lindbergh Began Transatlantic Flight (1932)

Backyard Games Week

American Red Cross Established (1881)

Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic (1932)

First Hydrogen Bomb Dropped by Air (1956)

Buy a Musical Instrument Day

International Day for Biological Diversity

Pres. Nixon Visited the Soviet Union (1972)

Turtle Day

Botanist Carolus Linnaeus's Birthday (1707)

South Carolina Admission Day (1788)

Wright Brothers Patented the Aircraft (1906)

First Telegraph Message Transmitted (1844)

Brooklyn Bridge Opened (1883)

Israeli Troops Pulled Out of Lebanon (2000)

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)

International Jazz Day

Shavuot (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown

Dorothea Lange's Birthday (1895)

Sally Ride's Birthday (1951)

Pentecost/Whitsunday

First Recorded Witch Execution (1647)

St. Petersburg Founded (1703)

Golden Gate Bridge Opened (1937)

Memorial Day

Athlete Jim Thorpe's Birthday (1888)

Sierra Club Founded (1892)

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

Rhode Island Admission Day (1790)

Wisconsin Admission Day (1848)

Hillary and Tenzing Reached Mt. Everest Summit (1953)

Indianapolis 500 Debuted (1911)

Lincoln Memorial Dedicated (1927)

World No Tobacco Day

First U.S. Copyright Law Enacted (1790)

South Africa Became Independent (1961)