May+2012



[|May Day]
 * = **Monday** ||= **Tuesday** ||= **Wednesday** ||= **Thursday** ||= **Friday** ||
 * <  ||< **1**

[|World Asthma Day] ||< **2**

Soviet Union Announced Fall of Berlin

Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa ||< **3**

World Press Freedom Day ||< **4**

International Firefighters Day ||
 * < **7**

Composer Peter Tchaikovsky's Birthday

Lusitania Sunk ||< ** 8 **

World Red Cross Day

VE Day ||< **9**

Lag BaOmer (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown

John Brown's Birthday

Beatles Signed First Recording Contract ||< **10**

Giant Squid Attack

First Transcontinental Railway Completed

Nelson Mandela Became South Africa's President ||< **11**

TTC Opened Bloor/Danforth Line ||
 * **14**

Midnight Sun

<span class="wiki_link_ext">First Smallpox Vaccine Administered

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Warsaw Pact Signed

**May 14-20:** <span class="wiki_link_ext">National Volunteer Week || **15** <span class="wiki_link_ext">Int'l Day of Families || **16**

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Biographers Day || **17**

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Ascension Day (Christian Feast Day)

<span class="wiki_link_ext">International Day Against Homophobia

<span class="wiki_link_ext">New York Stock Exchange Established || **18**

<span class="wiki_link_ext">International Museum Day

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Pope John Paul II's Birthday

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Mount St. Helens Erupted ||
 * **21**

<span class="wiki_link_ext">American Red Cross Established

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic

<span class="wiki_link_ext">First Hydrogen Bomb Dropped by Air || **22** <span class="wiki_link_ext">Buy a Musical Instrument Day

<span class="wiki_link_ext">International Day for Biological Diversity || **23** <span class="wiki_link_ext">Turtle Day

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Botanist Carolus Linnaeus's Birthday

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Wright Brothers Patented the Aircraft || **24** <span class="wiki_link_ext">First Telegraph Message Transmitted

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Israeli Troops Pulled Out of Lebanon || **25** <span class="wiki_link_ext">International Missing Children's Day ||
 * ** 28 **

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Linda Finch Completed Earhart's Flight Around the World || ** 29 **

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Hillary and Tenzing Reached Mt. Everest Summit || ** 30 **

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Vegemite Invented || ** 31 **

<span class="wiki_link_ext">World No Tobacco Day

<span class="wiki_link_ext">South Africa Became Independent ||  ||