May 2012
Asian Heritage Month
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| 1 | St. Joseph the Worker |
| Global Love Day |
| Mother Goose Day |
| Birthday of Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (1881-1955) |
| 3 | World Press Freedom Day |
| National Day of Prayer, USA (1st Thursday in May) |
| 5 | Cinco de Mayo |
| 7 | Birthday of Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| Birthday of Peter Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893) |
| Birthday of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) |
| 8 | World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day |
| World Communications Day |
| 10 | Vesak (Buddhist – the commemoration of Buddha’s birth, death and enlightenment) |
| 11 | Feast of St. Comgall, Abbot of Bangor (+A.D. 603) |
| Birthday of Irving Berlin (1888-1989) |
| 12 | Birthday of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) |
| International Migratory Bird Day |
| 13 | Mother's Day |
| Feast of Julian of Norwich (c. 1342- 1417) |
| 15 | International Day of Families |
| International Conscientious Objectors’ Day |
| 17 | Ascension (moved to May 20 in most dioceses) |
| World Telecommunication Day |
| Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education Ruling 1954 |
| 19 | Festival of the Sacred Spring: Celtic feast to honor St. Brigid |
| 20 | Iroquois Strawberry Festival (until May 23) |
| Birthday of Rose Hawthorne (1851-1926) |
| 21 | World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (UN) |
| 22 | International Day for Biological Diversity |
| Africa Day |
| Birthday of Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926) |
| Birthday of Richard Wagner (1813-1883) |
| 23 | Birthday of Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) American minister, lecturer and writer on behalf of equal rights, abolition, and other social reforms. |
| 25 | Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| 25-6/1 | Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories |
| 26 | Shavuot (Jewish Feast of Weeks) until May 28 |
| 27 | Pentecost |
| Birthday of Julia ward Howe (1819-1910) |
| Birthday of Rachel Carson (1907-1964) |
| 28 | Memorial Day (observed) |
| 29 | International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers |
| 31 | Feast of the Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth |
| Mother Ganges Festival (Hindu) |
| Birthday of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
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| For more information go to |
| http://www.gratefulness.org/ |
| http://www.easterbrooks.com/personal/calendar/yearly.html |
| http://www.historychannel.com |
| http://aol.beliefnet.com |
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