May

Month: May
* Date Your Mate Month
* Foster Care Month
* National Barbecue Month
* National Bike Month
* National Blood Pressure Month
* National Hamburger Month
* National Photograph Month
* National Recommitment Month
* National Salad Month
* Older Americans Month
Weekly Celebrations:
* Nurse’s Week – first week of month
* Wildflower Week – week two
* National Bike Week – third week
* National Police Week – third week of month
* Emergency Medical Services Week – fourth week of month
Each Day:
1 May Day
1 Loyalty Day
1 Mother Goose Day
1 Save the Rhino Day
2 Baby Day
2 Brothers and Sisters Day
3 Lumpy Rug Day
3 National Teachers Day (Tuesday of the first full week of May)
3 World Press Freedom Day
4 Bird Day
4 National Candied Orange Peel Day
4 Renewal Day
5 Cinco de Mayo
5 National Hoagie Day
5 Oyster Day
6 Beverage Day
6 International Tuba Day – first Friday in May
6 Military Spouses Day the Friday before Mother’s Day
6 National Tourist Appreciation Day
6 National Nurses Day
6 No Diet Day
6 Space Day – first Friday in May
7 Astronomy Day – date varies
7 Birth Mother’s Day – Saturday before Mother’s Day
7 National Tourism Day
8 Iris Day
8 No Socks Day
8 V-E Day
8 World Red Cross Day / World Red Crescent Day
9 Lost Sock Memorial Day
9 National Train Day- date varies
10 Clean up Your Room Day
11 Eat What You Want Day
11 National Receptionist Day the second Wednesday in May
11 School Nurses Day the Wednesday during Nurse’s Week
11 Twilight Zone Day
12 Fatigue Syndrome Day
12 International Nurses Day
12 Limerick Day
13 Blame Someone Else Day – first Friday the 13th of the year.
13 Frog Jumping Day
13 Leprechaun Day
14 Dance Like a Chicken Day
14 International Migratory Bird Day the second Saturday in May
15 National Chocolate Chip Day
15 Police Officer’s Memorial Day
16 Love a Tree Day
16 National Sea Monkey Day
16 Wear Purple for Peace Day
17 Pack Rat Day
18 International Museum Day
18 No Dirty Dishes Day
18 Visit Your Relatives Day
19 Boy’s Club Day
20 Be a Millionaire Day – now we all can go for that
20 National Bike to Work Day – third Friday of month
20 Pick Strawberries Day
21 Armed Forces Day – third Saturday of month
21 National Memo Day
21 National Waiters and Waitresses Day
22 Buy a Musical Instrument Day
23 Lucky Penny Day
24 National Escargot Day
25 National Missing Children’s Day
25 Tap Dance Day
26 Sally Ride Day
27 Sun Screen Day
28 Amnesty International Day
30 International Jazz Day – Saturday of Memorial Day
weekend.
30 Water a Flower Day
31 National Macaroon Day
31 Save Your Hearing Day
31 World No Tobacco Day
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Weird Wild & Wacky Day Observances:
• National Play your Ukulele Day – May 2
• Roberts Rule of Order Day – May 2
• Kite Day – May 3 / Lumpy Rug Day – May 3
• Hug your cat Day – May 3
• Garden Meditation Day – May 3
• National two different colored Shoes Day – May 3
• Paranormal Day – May 3
• World Laughter Day is the 1st Sunday in May.
(see Movable May Holidays)
• Great American Grump Out – suck it up, refrain
from getting the grump on – date varies – website
• International Tuba Day – May 3 ?
• National Scrapbook Day – May 3
• Make-A-Book Day – May 4
• International Respect for Chickens Day – May 4
• Star Wars Day – 4
• Cartoonists Day – May 5
• Totally Chipotle Day – May 5
• No Homework Day – May 6
• O. Henry Pun Day – May 6
• Paste-Up Day–May 7
• No Sock Day – May 8
• Have A Coke Day – May 8
• Stay up all night Day – Date varies
• Tear the Tags Off the Mattress Day – May 9
• Lost Sock Memorial Day – May 9
• Hurray for Buttons Day – May 9
• Peter Pan Day – May 9 – celebrates
(Author James Matthew Born 1860 in Scotland)
• Trust Your Intuition Day – May 10
• Clean Up Your Room Day – May 10
• Root Canal Appreciation Day -May 10
• Eat What You Want Day – May 11
• Jigsaw Puzzle Day – May 11
• Limerick Day (Edward Lear’s birthday) – May 12
• Hug Your Cat Day – May 13, 19, june,
• Frog Jumping Day – May 13
• Cough Drop Day – May 13
• Leprechaun Day–May 13
• Blame Someone Else Day – May 13
• National Dance Like A Chicken Day – May 14
• Crazy Day- May 14
• Marshmallow Fluff Birthday- May 14
• Star Wars Day (Creator George Lucas Born)- May 14
• Dinosaur Day – May 15
• Nylon Stockings Day – May 15
• National Pizza Party Day – see right
• National Chocolate Chip Day – May 15
• Over The Rainbow Day – May 15
• International Pickle Day – May 16
• Spaghetti-O Debuted – May 16
• National Sea Monkeys Day – May 16
• Pack Rat Day – May 17
• Turn Beauty Inside Out Day – May 17
• Brown Bag It Thursday – May 17
• Merry-Go-Round (1620 a Horse Powered Merry-Go-Round
Debuted) – May 17
• No Dirty Dishes day – May 18
• Visit Your Relative’s Day – May 18
• Worlds Largest Lego Completed – May 19
• Send an Electronic Greeting Card Day – May 19
• Frog Jump Day – May 19
• National Bike To Work Day – May 19
• Hug Your Cat Day – May 19
• National Bake Sale Day – May 19
• Strawberries Day – May 20 (see National Strawberry Month)
• I Need a Patch For That Day – May 21
• Toothpaste Tube Birthday – May 22
• Buy-A-Musical-Instrument Day – May 22
• Lucky Penny Day – May 23
• National Pickle Day – May 23
• Scavenger Hunt Day – May 24
• Mary Had A Little Lamb Day -May 24
• National Something day – May 25
• Nerd Pride Day or Geek Pride Day – May 25
• National Brown Bag It Day – May 25
• Gone-ta-pott Day – May 28
• My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It Day – May 30
• What you think upon grows Day – date varies