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May 2016
SUNDAY
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
1
Hawaiian Lei Day
2
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Born in 1903
May Day
Worthy Wage Day
For child care
providers.
8
9
Eleanor Estes born,
1906
First Newspaper
Cartoon In the USA
in 1754
Mother’s Day
No Socks Day
15
Norma Fox Mazer
born, 1931
National Chocolate
Chip Day
22
Arnold Lobel born,
1933
Buy-A-Musical
Instrument Day
29
John F. Kennedy
born in 1917
Andrew Clements
born, 1949
16
First US Nickel
Minted In 1866
23
Victoria Day in
Canada
Margaret Wise
Brown born, 1910
Penny Day
30
Memorial Day
3
National Teacher
Day
National Sun Day
Constitution Memo-
rial Day, Japan
4
National Weather
Observers’ Day
Susan’s Birthday
(Sesame Street)
10
Clean Up Your
Room Day
Christopher Paul
Curtis born, 1953
11
National School
Nurse Day
Twilight Zone Day
17
First Kentucky
Derby In 1875
Gary Paulson born,
1939
24
First Morse Code
Message Sent (from
Washington DC to
Baltimore, 1844)
31
World No Tobacco
Day
18
International
Museum Day
Mt St. Helens
Erupted, 1980
25
National Missing
Children’s Day
National Tap Dance
Day
FRIDAY
5
Leo Lionni born,
1910
Cinco de Mayo
Children’s Day In
Japan
6
7
Space Day
Eiffel Tower opens to
the public in 1889
1st Stamp Collection
Started
Pulitzer Prize Estab-
lished (1917)
13
14
12
International Nurses
Day
Kite Day
Limerick Day
SATURDAY
Tulip Day
Beginning of Lewis
and Clark Expedi-
tion In 1804
National Dance Like
a Chicken Day
19
20
21
Circus Day
(Ringling Brother’s
Circus opened in
1884)
Lindbergh Flight
Day (1927)
Mary Pope Osborne
born, 1949
Armed Forces Day
American Red Cross
Founded by Clara
Barton, 1881
26
27
28
Blueberry
Cheesecake Day
Golden Gate Bridge
Opens in 1937
Masking Tape
Patented in 1930
Jim Thorpe Born in
1888