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Today is: May 13
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Events In May 2024
Database of events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions occurring in May of this year.
May Events
Scurvy Awareness Day: May 2
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Scurvy Awareness Day brings in the United States and highlights the hundreds of cases of Scurvy reported each year. It's a sickness largely plaguing homeless people due to their lack of access to fresh pr...
May
Truffle Day: May 2
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Truffle Day celebrates truffles, the chocolate candy with a sweet or nutty filling. These candy box delights first appeared in the 1920s in Europe and came in three key varieties: American, European, and...
May
Tuna Day, World: May 2
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World Tuna Day is a day that commemorates the fish most commonly used in cooking, the tuna. In 2017 the United Nations officially added World Tuna Day to its dossier of awareness campaigns, recognizing th...
May
African Violet Week, Ntl: May 27 - June 2...
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The actual test of a green thumb is either orchids or African violets. Each year the African Violet Society of America holds its annual convention and trade show during National African Violet Week in Tex...
May
BBQ Week, Ntl. (UK): May 27 - June 2 (est)
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First held in 1996, National BBQ Week in the United Kingdom is a time to show off your grilling IQ, gather with friends, and share the best outdoor cooking available. Brits love their barbies, and this is...
May
Safe Kids Week, Parachute (CA): May 27 - J...
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Parachute Safe Kids Week is a national awareness campaign in Canada developed to bring attention to predictable and preventable injuries in children.
May
Chocolate Custard Day, Ntl.: May 3
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National Chocolate Custard Day has a bit of contention. Nobody knows its origin or whether May 3 or May 5 is correct. Going back over the past ten years, we find it marked on both. Therefore, we're keepin...
May
Constitution Day (PL)(1791): May 3
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National Day in Poland is celebrated annually on May 3rd and is known as Constitution Day (Święto Konstytucji 3 Maja). This public holiday commemorates the adoption of the Polish Constitution on May 3, 17...
May
Constitution Memorial Day (JP)(1947): May...
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Marking the anniversary of the institution of the Japanese Constitution, May 3, 1947. This event is part of Golden Week in Japan, which is a national holiday.
May
Day of the Holy Cross (MX): May 3
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The construction unions in Mexico chose to defy Pope John XXIII's cancellation of this feast day in the Catholic calendar in 1960. Until then, it was a day when people decorated the crosses of the dead an...
May
Foreign Service Workers Day: May 3
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US Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), co-founders of the Senate Foreign Service Caucus, are introducing a resolution designating May 1, 2020, as “United States Foreign Service...
May
Garden Meditation Day: May 3
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Need an excuse to spend the day in the garden? Welcome to Garden Meditation Day. Today is your day to get out and lose yourself in your favorite hobby. Breathe in the air, focus on the flowers, and be one...
May
Great Friday (C): May 3
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Great Friday in Orthodox Christianity is its most solemn observance. It is the day Jesus Christ was tortured and crucified. The date is different annually, based on the day of Easter, which is based upo...
May
Leopard Day, World: May 3
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Leopards (panthers) continue to be vulnerable worldwide, though the most endangered is the Amur leopard of eastern China and Russia. As of 2022, fewer than 100 Amurs remain wild. Leopards face multiple th...
May
Lumpy Rug Day: May 3
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Lumpy Rug Day is one of the silly little holidays people latch onto yearly. A lumpy rug can be a small floor carpet bunched up and needing a good swat or a lousy wig that doesn’t fit right. Whichever lu...
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