Celebrations
May 1st
May Day Mother Goose Day Screen Free Week 1/5/-7/5/23 May 2nd May 3rd May 4th Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) May 5th Kodomo no Hi (Japan and Korea) Wesak/Vesak (Buddhism) May 6th Dawn Chorus Day May 7th International Composting Awareness Week 7-13/05/2023 May 8th May 9th World Migratory Bird Day May 10th May 11th Poland Independence Day May 12th International Nurses Day May 13th May 14th Paraguay National Day Mother's Day May 15th International Day of Families National Volunteer Week 15-21/5/23 May 16th May 17th Norway Constitution Day May 18th International Museum Day May 19th May 20th East Timor Independence Day World Bee Day Walk Safely to School Day May 21st May 22nd International Day for Biological Diversity Yemen National Day Sherlock Holmes Day May 23rd World Turtle Day Library and Information Week 23-29/5/23 May 24th May 25th Jordan Independence Day Argentina National Day Towel Day National Simultaneous Storytime May 26th Georgia National Day National Sorry Day Ascension (Christian) Shavuot (Jewish) May 27th Afghanistan Independence Day Citizen Rights for Aboriginal People Referendum 1967 National Reconciliation Week 27/5/14-3/6/23 Australia's Biggest Morning Tea May 28th Ethiopia National Day Pentecost (Christian) May 29th May 30th Croatia National Day May 31st |
Famous People's Birthdays
May 1st
May 2nd
Mairi Hedderwick (Author & Illustrator)
May 3rd
Paul Geraghty (Author & Illustrator) May 4th
Thomas Huxley (Scientist) Rod Campbell (Author) Eugenie Clark (Scientist) Jane Jacobs (Urban Activist) Bill Mollison (Scientist and Author)
May 7th
Michael Rosen (Author)
May 8th
David Attenborough (Naturalist and Activist) May 10th
Lucy Osburn (Australian history) Ellen Ochoa (Scientist & Astronaut) Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Scientist)
May 12th Mary Reiby (Australian history) Florence Nightingale (Nurse and Statistician) Dorothy Hodgkin (Scientist) Edward Lear (Author) Maryann Mirzakhani (Mathematician) Farley Mowat (Environmentalist)
May 19th
May 20th
May 22nd
Mary Cassatt (Artist) Arnold Lobel (Author) John Flanagan (Author) Meri Te Tai Mangakahia (Maori Suffragette)
May 25th
May 28th
Margaret Preston (Artist)
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