May

May is the fifth month of the year having 31 days. Name probably comes from the Latin (mensis) Maius or Maia, Roman goddess of increase. May's birthstone is emerald and its flower is lily of the valley.

1

Labor Day in many places
Law Day (declared by Dwight D. Eisenhower)
May Day in many places
Boys' Day in Japan
First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
Kate Smith born, 1909

2

Constitution Day in Japan
King's Birthday in Lesotho

3

Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
Bob Seger is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945

4

Four Kent State students are shot and killed by the National Guard, 1970
Rhode Island Independence Day

5

John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925
Children's Day in Japan and South Korea
Coronation Day in Thailand
Liberation Day in Netherlands
Battle of Puebla in Mexico

6

EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
Bataan Day in Philippines

7

Germany surrenders ending World War II, 1945
May Day in United Kingdom
Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg, 1833
Tchaikowsky born, 1840

8

U.S. institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
Truman Day in Missouri
Buddha's birthday in South Korea
Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines

9

94 degrees, New York, 1979
Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia
Victory Day in Poland

10

Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
Nazi bookburning, 1933
Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina
Mothers' Day in Guatemala
Dave Mason is born in Worcester, England, 1945

11

Minnesota Day in Minnesota
Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, 1981

12

Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977

13

None at this time.

14

Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
Buddhist Holiday in Indonesia
Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay
Unification Day in Liberia
Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Democratic Party in Guinea

15

Asylum for Inebriates founded in Binghamton, New York, 1854
Kamuzu Day in Malawi
Vesak Day in Singapore, Malaysia
Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand

16

First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
Discovery Day in Cayman Islands

17

24 inches of rain in 11 hours at Pearl River, South China, 1982
Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
Constitution Day in Nauru, Norway

18

Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
Flag Day in Haiti
Prayer Day in Denmark
Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949

19

Youth and Sports Day in Turkey
Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945

20

Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina
National Day in Cameroon
Victoria Day in Canada
The Jimi Hendrix Experience is signed by Reprise Records, 1967

21

DEC announces PDP-8
Battle of Iquique in Chile
U.S. explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956

22

Ethernet first described, 1973
U.S. Civil War ends, 1865
National Heroes' Day in Sri Lanka
Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany, 1665

23

Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
Commonwealth Day in Jamaica, Belize
National Labor Day in Jamaica
Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963

24

Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
Bermuda Day in Bermuda
Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941

25

African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe
African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania, Zambia
Independence Day in Jordan
Memorial Day in New Mexico and Puerto Rico
Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina
Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic
Oral Roberts sees 900-foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1980
Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830

26

Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
Al Jolson born, 1886

27

First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921
Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937

28

First meeting of COBOL definition (eventually CODASYL), 1959
Mothers' Day in Central African Republic

29

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
First food stamps issued in U.S., 1961

30

Colossus Mark II, 1944
U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912

31

Pya Martyrs' Day in Togo
Republic Day in South Africa
The Who perform the loudest (76,000 watts) concert, 1976

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