Long List of May Holidays and Special Days

By popular request, here is a long list of all of the special days celebrated in May 2008. If you prefer, you can explore May's special days by date.

Month Long Observances

• May Is American Bike Month
  Check out my page for this special day!

• Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

• Asparagus Month

• Asthma & Allergy Awareness Month

• Better Hearing and Speech Month

• Flower Month

• National Bar-B-Que Month

• National Egg Month

• National Duckling Month
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• National Hamburger Month

• National Mental Health Month

• National Salad Month

• National Photo Month

• National Physical Fitness and Sports Month

• National Strawberry Month

• Older Americans Month

• Transportation Month

Week Long Observances

• 1st Week - National Postcard Week

• 1st Week -Teacher Appreciation Week

• 2nd Week - National Pet Week
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• 2nd Week - National Police Week
  Celebrate in whichever week has May 15th.

• Last Week - National Backyard Games Week
  Last full week before Memorial Day.

May 1st

• Hawaiian Lei Day

• Mother Goose Day
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• May Day
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• Worthy Wage Day
  For child care providers.

May 2nd

• Dr. Benjamin Spock's Birthday
  Born in 1903.

• Holocaust Remembrance Day
  Called Yom Hashoah. This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on a Friday so it is actually observed the preceding Thursday.

• Space Day
  Celebrated the first Friday of May. Check out my page for this special day!

May 3rd

• Constitution Memorial Day
  In Japan.

May 4th

• National Weather Observers' Day
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• Susan's Birthday
  From Sesame Street.

May 5th

• Children's Day
  In Japan.

• Cinco De Mayo
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May 6th

• International No Diet Day

• National Teacher Day
  Always the Tuesday of the first full week of May.

May 7th

• 1st Stamp Collection Started

• Pulitzer Prize Established

May 8th

• No Socks Day

May 9th

• First Newspaper Cartoon
  In the USA in 1754.

• National Family Child Care Provider's Day
  The Friday before Mother's Day.

May 10th

• Clean Up Your Room Day

May 11th

• Mother's Day
  Second Sunday of May. Check out my page for this special day!

• Twilight Zone Day

May 12th

• International Nurses Day

• Kite Day
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• Limerick Day

May 13th

• Tulip Day

May 14th

• Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition
  In 1804.

• National Dance Like a Chicken Day

May 15th

• Aoi Festival
  Celebrated in Japan.

• L.F. Baum's Birthday
  Author of The Wizard of Oz - born in 1856.

• National Chocolate Chip Day

May 16th

• First US Nickel Minted
  In 1866, called the 'Shield Nickel'.

May 17th

• Armed Forces Day
  The third Saturday of May.

• First Kentucky Derby
  In 1875.

May 18th

• International Museum Day

• Mount St. Helens Erupted
  In 1980.

• Peace Day
  Third Sunday in May.

• Visit Your Relatives Day

May 19th

• Circus Day
  The Ringling Brother's Circus opened in 1884. Check out my page for this special day!

• Victoria Day
  Celebrated in Canada on the Monday before May 24.

May 20th

• First Photo Sent From Space
  In 1990 the Hubble space telescope sends 1st photograph's from space.

May 21st

• American Red Cross Founded
  Founded by Clara Barton in 1881.

• Lindbergh Flight Day
  In 1927.

May 22nd

• Buy-A-Musical Instrument Day

May 23rd

• Penny Day

May 24th

• First Morse Code Message Sent
  Sent from Washington DC to Baltimore in 1844.

May 25th

• National Missing Children's Day

• National Tap Dance Day

May 26th

• Blueberry Cheesecake Day

May 27th

• Golden Gate Bridge Opens
  In 1937.

• Masking Tape Patented
  In 1930.

May 28th

• Jim Thorpe's Birthday
  Born in 1888.

May 29th

• John F. Kennedy's Birthday
  Born in 1917.

May 30th

• Ice Cream Freezer Patented
  In 1848 by William Young.

May 31st

• Memorial Day
  Observed the Last Monday of May, which is the 26th in 2008.

• World No Tobacco Day

This information is correct to the best of my knowledge. These dates are collected from many online and offline resources. Please do not email me asking me for more info about a date - All the information I have is posted here.