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Created in 2015 as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the United Nation's Global Road Safety week seeks to reduce and eliminate unnecessary traffic deaths and casualties worldwide. Tactics include speed management, government leadership, improved infrastructure, vehicle safety standards, law enforcement, and post-crash survival. Someone in the world dies in a road accident every 23 seconds.

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May

Salt Awareness Week, World (UK): May 15-21

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Salt Awareness Week seeks to raise awareness about the dangers of overeating salt, no matter your age. Children who consume too much salt set themselves up for problems later in life, including an increased risk of stroke and heart disease. Use this week to learn about the effects of salt on your health and seek healthier alternatives. The dates of this event vary widely from year to year and generally fall in somewhere between February and May, with the actual date set during the fourth quarter.

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May

San Isidro Day (C): May 15

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Saint Isidro (1082-1172AD) is the patron saint of Madrid and the patron saint of farmers. Each year in Hispanic nations, including Mexico and Spain, festivities are held on the day leading up to this feast. In Madrid it is called the Pradera del Santo. The miracle San Isidro performed was to pound the parched earth and bring forth a gushing spring. During the festivities, a lot of water (and food) is consumed. WHY SO MANY FEAST DAYS? Have you ever noticed that there seem to be feast days for just about everything in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian faiths? There is a reason for that. The church granted feast days to allow all subjects of the Crown to take a day off. As most worked six days a week, feast days provided a break that landowners and nobility couldn't deny. If they tried, they were going against the church, and that you did not do. In medieval times, there were approximately 60 feast days a year. Add this to 52 Sundays, Christmas, and Easter; workers received at least 114 days off a year. Contrast that to today. The average American gets 104 weekend days and seven national holidays off work. That's three days less than the commoners of the Dark Ages, in case you're feeling overworked.

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May

Slider Day, Ntl: May 15

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National Slider Day celebrates the two-inch circumference mini sandwich invented by White Castle nearly a century ago. Typically a slider is a small hamburger, but it can be any type of round-roll mini sandwhich. The Library of Congress states the first hamburger sold in America was in 1900 by Louis Lassen, a Danish immigrant, and restaurateur in New Haven, Connecticut. White Castle hamburger chain states the hamburger is the invention of Otto Kuase of Hamburg, Germany. White Castle began in 1921. Who created the ground meat sandwich may never be known. The US government gives Lassen official credit because the first sale can be proved. What is known is that in 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair, the humble hamburger sandwich caught the attention of the New York Tribune, gaining instant celebrity in American culture. Later, Roy Kroc would make hamburgers the definition of fast food affordable to the masses. During both World Wars, due to Germany being the enemy, restaurants referred to the beef patties as Salisbury steak, a hamburger patty without the buns drenched in gravy. Sliders are now a popular appetizer and can be found in most areas with local influences. This event was first celebrated in 2014.

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May

Smile Month, Ntl. (UK): May 15-June 15

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May

Straw Hat Day (1916): May 15

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Straw Hat Day has occurrs in May at Ivy League schools each year since 1916. It is an Ivy League tradition that began at the University of Pennsylvania. Straw Hat Day is the official ushering of the summer wardrobe and a bit of rebellion against the status quo. The traditions of Straw Hat Day are incorporated into the present-day passing of the class from graduating seniors to the junior class at the University of Pennsylvania. The day continues to stand on its own, while at Penn, "Hey Day" is often celebrated at the end of April or in the first week of May. According to the University's site, this is what it is all about: "For many years prior to the origination of Hey Day in 1916, the principal spring celebration for undergraduates was Straw Hat Day. Straw Hat Day was the second Saturday of each May, the special event of the day being a baseball game with Princeton. Today it occurs annually on May 15. At the time, there was strict observance of the tradition that a higher education deserves appropriate dress. Thus, when students went to baseball games, they generally wore tailored suits, shirts with collars and neckties, garters, and hats. On Straw Hat Day, felt hats were laid aside, and the students appeared in straw hats. Straw Hat Day was so widely accepted in Philadelphia that no one in the city dared wear a straw hat before this day.

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May

Supply Chain Professionals Day: May 15

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The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) announced the creation of the inaugural Annual Supply Chain Professionals Day in 2018, honoring the professionals responsible for the buy, make, move, and sell activities that comprise the modern supply chain. While National Truck Driver Appreciation Week and National Healthcare Supply Chain Week exist, there has yet to be an official day to celebrate most professionals representing the end-to-end supply chain daily. "Our organization represents thousands of supply chain professionals across the world. The creation of the Annual Supply Chain Professionals Day allows us to recognize this growing and evolving discipline and the professionals who serve within it," said Rick Blasgen, CSCMP President and Chief Executive Officer. The idea for a professional organization of distribution managers (later referred to as logistics managers) was first conceived in May of 1962 to meet an urgent need for continuing education and to provide an opportunity for an interchange of ideas in this rapidly growing profession that has come to be known today as supply chain management. Fifty-six years later, CSCMP continues to serve today's supply chain professionals. Built by members, for members, CSCMP connects, develops, and educates the world's logistics and supply chain management professionals throughout their careers. No matter where you are in your career development, CSCMP has the resources to help you achieve your goals. "It's exciting to see that we finally have an occasion to celebrate supply chain professionals' contributions to our global economy. All too often, our profession can remain behind-thescenes and it doesn't always get the proper recognition for the important role we play in the success of our organizations. Supply Chain Professionals Day should create an excellent opportunity each year to show appreciation for those who have careers in the various aspects of the end-to-end supplychain," said Mark Bray of ACR Supply Company and President of the CSCMP Raleigh Roundtable.

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May

Vegetarian Week, Ntl. (UK): May 15-21

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National Vegetarian Week in the United Kingdom falls during the second week of May, and this event highlights the benefits of going vegetarian.

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May

Webby Awards Broadcast: May 15 (est)

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May

Women's Check-up Day, Ntl.: May 15

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May

Word Play Day: May 15

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Dictionary.com celebrates its birthday (May 14, 1995) with a week-long event called #DictionaryWeek. The event includes various themed days: Wordplay Day (Monday): Participants are encouraged to share their favorite puns on Twitter, with the chance to be featured in the Pun Hall of Fame. There are also wordplay quizzes and games to enjoy. Word Love Day (Tuesday): A Word Giveaway takes place on Twitter, featuring favorite words selected by the Dictionary.com team. Limited edition virtual word certificates are available. The Word Love collection, curated for word lovers, is also featured. Word Pain Day (Wednesday): A Misspelling Bee occurs on Twitter, where participants share misspelled words that haunt them. There are spelling quizzes, games, and tips for getting words right. Word Curiosity Day (Thursday): A Twitter event allows users to ask questions about words, dictionary additions, language inclusivity, and more. Experts from Dictionary.com participate in answering the questions. Quizzes and strange-but-true word facts are also featured. Word Inspiration Day (Friday): Participants share the one word they would want their name to appear next to in the dictionary. Dictionary.com chooses one of these words as the Word of the Day, crediting the person who shared it. Throughout the week, participants are encouraged to follow Dictionary.com on Twitter and engage in various activities and events.

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May

Work at Home Moms Week: May 15-21

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When juggling children, work, and home, a mother's work is never done, doubly so when she works from home. This week is about honoring all the moms out there that make money from home while juggling family and house. Annually the week following Mother's Day.

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May

AIDS, First Man Cured of AIDS Announced (2011): May 16

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Today is the anniversary of the announcement of the first man, Timothy Ray Brown of Berlin, cured of HIV, the preliminary stage of the virus that causes AIDS, on May 16, 2011. For those of us alive in the late 1970s to mid-1980s, a terrifying new disease appeared on the horizon following the free love movement and loosened condemnation against premarital sex. The baby boomer generation, the largest yet to ever exist, was young and in its prime. They stretched the boundaries of convention, experimented with sex and drugs, put off marriage, and pursued education. It was a sexually charged and exciting time for youth, and the future was theirs. That free-wheeling era marked by the 1960s and 1970s came crashing to an end when AIDS appeared on the scene. Suddenly, you could die horribly slowly by having sex with the wrong person. At first, nobody really knew how you got it. It would be the early 80s before the actual virus was identified. Then, once identified, there was no way to treat or cure it. Treatments would appear in the next decade, including antiretroviral therapy or ART, but conclusive proof of a possible cure still needs to be discovered. That changed when 45-year-old Brown of Berlin, a man who tested positive for HIV in 1995, tested completely clean for HIV upon discovering an HIV immunity gene he received through a bone marrow stem cell transplant in 2007. Doctors announced he experienced a functional cure on May 16, 2011.

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May

Biographer's Day (1763): May 16

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On May 16, 1763, English poet, essayist, moralist, and literary critic Samuel Johnson first sat down in collaboration with James Boswell in London. Boswell would go on to write the "Life of Samuel Johnson, a biography." The book has become the standard by which the modern biography would be measured and was hailed by critic Harold Bloom "as the greatest biography written in the English language." Johnson would have enjoyed this designation immensely as a literary scholar and critic. James Boswell was a mere 22 when he first met with Johnson. The book would not be published until 1791, when he was 50. Boswell died four years later, in 1795. Biographer's Day marks the anniversary of the first meeting between Johnson and Boswell. It is a tribute to all biographers, living and dead.

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May

Cannes Film Festival (FR): May 16-27

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