May

|| Hawaiian Lei Day May Day Worthy Wage Day For child care providers. 1 ||  Dr. Benjamin Spock Born in 1903. 2 ||   National Teacher Day Always the Tuesday of the first full week of May. National Sun Day Constitution Memorial Day in Japan 3 ||   National Weather Observers' Day Susan, from Sesame Street (BDay) Dan Wood (BDay) 4 ||   Leo Lionni (BDay) Cinco de Mayo (Additional sites below) Children's Day In Japan 5 ||   Space Day Eiffel Tower opens to the public, 1889 6 ||   Kentucky Derby takes place today Nonny Hogrogian (BDay) 1st Stamp Collection Started Pulitzer Prize Established 7 || No Socks Day 8 ||   Eleanor Estes (BDay) First Newspaper Cartoon In the USA in 1754. 9 ||   Clean Up Your Room Day Christopher Paul (BDay) 10 ||   National School Nurse Day Twilight Zone Day Peter Sis (BDay) Mark Lupica (BDay) 11 ||   International Nurses Day Kite Day Limerick Day 12 ||  Tulip Day 13 ||   Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition In 1804. National Dance Like a Chicken Day Eoin Colfer (BDay) 14 || Frank L . Baum Author of The Wizard of Oz - born in 1856. National Chocolate Chip Day Paul Zindel (BDay) 15 ||  First US Nickel Minted In 1866, called the 'Shield Nickel'. 16 ||   First Kentucky Derby In 1875 Gary Paulson (BDay) <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">17 ||   Lillian Hoban (BDay) International Museum Day Mount St. Helens Erupted In 1980. Visit Your Relatives Day <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">18 ||  Circus Day The Ringling Brother's Circus opened in 1884. <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">19 ||   Lindbergh Flight Day in 1927 Mary Pope Osborne (BDay) <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">20 ||   Armed Forces Day The third Saturday of May. American Red Cross Founded Founded by Clara Barton in 1881. <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">21 || Buy-A-Musical Instrument Day <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">22 ||   Victoria Day Celebrated in Canada on the Monday before May 25. Margaret Wise Brown (BDay) Scott O' Dell (BDay) Peter Parnall (BDay) Penny Day <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">23 ||  First Morse Code Message Sent Sent from Washington DC to Baltimore in 1844. <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">24 ||   Martha Alexander (BDay) National Missing Children's Day National Tap Dance Day <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">25 ||  Blueberry Cheesecake Day <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">26 ||   Golden Gate Bridge Opens in 1937 Masking Tape Patented in 1930 <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">27 ||  Jim Thorpe Born in 1888 <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">28 || Andrew Clements (BDay) <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">29 ||   Memorial Day Ice Cream Freezer Patented In 1848 by William Young. <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">30 ||   Jay Williams (BDay) World No Tobacco Day <span style="background-color: white; border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: auto;">31 ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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 * [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif width="15" height="5"]]Mother Goose Day
 * [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif width="15" height="5"]]Mother's Day
 * [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif width="15" height="5"]]Norma Fox Mazer (BDay)
 * [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif width="15" height="5"]]Arnold Lobel (BDay)
 * [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif width="15" height="5"]]John F. Kennedy Born in 1917